Ford Fiesta — reported problems

What owners report: issue areas

Owner complaints are classified by the system they concern: 8,674 classifications in all. One complaint can concern several systems, so these add up to more than the number of complaints.

• Powertrain (transmission & drivetrain)3,016 (34.8%)
• Engine1,080 (12.5%)Official recall records for this system: 4, covering model years 2014–2015.
• Body & structure822 (9.5%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2011–2014.
• Electrical system676 (7.8%)Official recall records for this system: 2, covering model years 2011–2013.
• Speed control & accelerator394 (4.5%)
• Doors, latches & locks366 (4.2%)Official recall records for this system: 5, covering model years 2011–2015.

Other / uncategorized: 790 classifications (9.1%) were not assigned to a specific system by the source. They are counted but not treated as an issue area.

These are counts of records held by CarFaultIQ, not a failure rate. More records can simply mean more vehicles were sold or more owners reported. No vehicles-in-service figure exists in this data, so no reliability or risk score can be derived from it.

What the records are about, by source

Each source is kept separate: owner complaints, recalls, manufacturer communications and investigations are different kinds of record and are never added together. All model years.

• Owner complaints (6,316 records, model years 2011–2019) are most frequently classified under: powertrain (transmission & drivetrain), engine and body & structure.
• Manufacturer communications (987 records, model years 2011–2019) are most frequently classified under: equipment & accessories, electrical system and powertrain (transmission & drivetrain).

"Most frequently classified under" reports how the records are filed by the source. It is not a finding about causes, and a record can be filed under more than one system. Read the individual records

Mileage reported when the issue occurred

• 4,902reports included a mileage
• 50,844average of those mileages

This is the mileage owners recorded at the time they reported, not an expected failure mileage and not a prediction for any individual vehicle. The lowest and highest figures on record are not shown: they are unverified odometer entries that include zeros and implausibly high readings, so they would not describe a real range. A median is not shown either, because the stored figures are group totals and a median cannot be recovered from them.

Evidence by model year

Records held per model year. Select a year to narrow this page to it.

1. 2011 824 records for 2011 824
2. 2012 711 records for 2012 711
3. 2013 766 records for 2013 766
4. 2014 625 records for 2014 625
5. 2015 358 records for 2015 358
6. 2016 289 records for 2016 289
7. 2017 167 records for 2017 167
8. 2018 91 records for 2018 91
9. 2019 143 records for 2019 143

Counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold in each year, so a taller year is not necessarily a worse year.

Reports mentioning outcomes

• 258mention a crash
• 50mention a fire
• 264mention an injury
• 12mention a fatality

These are counts of records whose report mentioned the outcome. They are not a severity rating and not a safety assessment of this vehicle.

Official records held

• Safety recalls NHTSA 35
• Manufacturer communications NHTSA 987
• Investigations NHTSA 24
• Transport Canada recalls Transport Canada 24
• Owner complaints NHTSA 6,316

Explore the underlying evidence records

Diagnostic codes found in evidence for this vehicle

These codes appear by explicit identifier in official records matched to this exact model and year.

• U0100 in 12 records · 2011–2016
• U0101 in 6 records · 2011–2016
• U3003 in 6 records · 2011–2016
• P0234 in 3 records · 2014–2016
• P0245 in 3 records · 2014–2016
• P0246 in 3 records · 2014–2016
• P0128 in 2 records · 2018–2019
• P04DB in 2 records · 2016–2017
• U3000 in 2 records · 2016–2016
• U0198 in 1 record · 2019–2019

A code appearing in a record means the code was named in that document. It is not a diagnosis of this vehicle, not a fault this vehicle has, and not an indication of urgency. Diagnosis requires reading live data from the vehicle.