Federal complaint record · Ford Fusion · model year 2009

2009 Ford Fusion

Owners submitted 1,020 federal complaint reports about this model year, placing it at the 77th percentile for complaint intensity within its 2007 to 2011 midsize sedan cohort. The largest reported component group is brakes. Sample sizes and limitations are shown below.

Brakes · 46% · group n = 536Airbags · 31% · group n = 359Structure · 4% · group n = 43Engine · 3% · group n = 37Speed control · 3% · group n = 33
1,020
Complaint records on file
97,000
Median mileage at the reported problem · 623 complaints reported mileage
46%
Of classified component reports name brakes · group n = 536
77th
Complaint-intensity percentile in a cohort of 50 model years

Brakes · 5 in ten classified complaints

Where this record concentrates

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Component group 01 · Brakes46%

Brakes reports

Ford Fusion · model year 2009

Reports in this group536
Share of classified reports46%
Component groups on file6
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Adjacent model years · same badge, different data

The complaint signal has a shape

Compare model years
2008
0.6complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,352 matched incidents
This car
2009
0.4complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
1,020 matched incidents
2010
1.8complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years
5,125 matched incidents

The line compares submitted complaints per 1,000 estimated vehicle-years, not failures per 1,000 cars. Vehicle-years use compiled US sales, a 0.25 prior-calendar-year plus 0.75 current-calendar-year model-year allocation, and the shipped survival curve. Rates appear only where estimated vehicles in operation are at least 5,000.

From the record · recurring narrative clusters

What recurring complaint clusters describe

How clusters are built
Brake performance · 509 reports

Reports describe braking performance concerns

Cluster 1 of 32009 Ford Fusion
Airbag concerns · 253 reports

Reports describe airbag warning or deployment concerns

Cluster 2 of 32009 Ford Fusion
Stalling or shutdown · 31 reports

Reports describe the vehicle stalling or shutting off while driving

Cluster 3 of 32009 Ford Fusion

Cluster summaries paraphrase recurring symptoms reported to NHTSA. They are aggregate descriptions, not individual verbatim reports.

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