1999 Ford Probe

Routine

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

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Exterior Lighting › Headlights	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Exterior Lighting › Headlights

Filed Mar 29, 2002IN

ONCOMING CARS HAVING OVERLY BRIGHT HEADLIGHTS CAUSE NIGHT BLINDNESS. BOTH BLUE AND WHITE EXTRA BRIGHT LIGHTS DO THIS. PROPERLY AIMED LIGHTS STILL SHINE INTO ONCOMING DIRVERS WHEN THEY GO OVER HILLS AND BUMPS. THE WORSE SITUATION IS RAIN AND ON ICE WHEN THE LIGHT ALSO REFLECTS OFF THE ROAD SURFACE GIVING THE ONCOMING DRIVER NOWHERE ON THE ROAD AHEAD THAT CAN BE VIEWED. THE COLOR IS NOT AS IMPORTANT AS THE AMOUNT OF LIGHT. I AM SURPRISEDED THESE ARE NOT COVERED IN MOST STATE'S LAWS ALREADY. *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1990

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Deaths	Assessment
1999 — this page	1	0	0	0	Routine
1997	27	4	1	0	Routine
1996	52	4	1	0	Routine
1995	86	4	3	0	Routine
1994	166	4	7	1	Fatalities reported
1993	205	4	8	0	Above average
1992	79	3	1	1	Fatalities reported
1991	177	4	5	0	Routine
1990	323	4	5	1	Fatalities reported

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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.