1997 Ford C Series

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the tires › tread/belt. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Tires › Tread/Belt1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Tires › Tread/Belt
Filed Oct 5, 2000TX

PE00 040; CONSUMER WAS TRAVELING ABOUT 65MPH ON THE HIGHWAY AND HEARED A NOISE. NOISE WAS FROM TIRE TREAD HITTING UP AGAINST VEHICLE. HE WAS ABLE TO PULL OVER, AND SAW THAT RIGHT REAR TIRE TREAD HAD SEPARATED. ALSO, LEFT FRONT AND BOTH REAR TIRES TREAD HAD SEPARATED. FIRESTONE STEELTEX RADIAL,#AT235/85R16, DOT # VNOR1XK. *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1999
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19991000Routine
1997 — this page1000Routine
19951000Routine

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Reading this record

No unusual pattern of severe incidents in the complaint record.

Complaint counts track how many cars were sold and how long they have been on the road as much as they track quality. A common model from 2013 has had a decade to accumulate reports; a rare one from last year has not. The signal worth weighing is in the severity columns, in whether the same component keeps appearing, and in whether the manufacturer eventually opened a recall for it.

Most recent recall on file: none. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.