1998 Ford Lariat

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the exterior lighting › back up lights. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Exterior Lighting › Back Up Lights1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Exterior Lighting › Back Up Lights
Filed Feb 1, 1999CA

BACK UP LIGHT BEEPER FAILED. YH

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 2001
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20018020Routine
20002010Routine
19994000Routine
1998 — this page1000Routine
19974000Routine

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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.