Ford School Bus

Owners filed 10 complaints across 5 model years of the Ford School Bus. The 1995 drew the most (5).

Model years5
Complaints10
Recalls1
Fires1
Deaths0

Which Ford School Bus years should you avoid?

Not enough of the record to single a year out. Fewer than 4 Ford School Bus model years have at least 25 complaints and are old enough to judge, so any ranking would be noise. The table below has every year as filed.

How this is worked out: each year is compared with a typical year of the same model, which takes most of the difference in sales out of it, and its share of serious failures is compared with every other car of the same model year, because older cars were complained about differently. A year needs 25 complaints to be judged at all. Complaints are unverified owner reports. Full method →

Every Ford School Bus model year compared

Complaints per year
YearComplaintsRelative volumeRecallsFiresCrashesMost reportedStatus
19981
0——Air Bags › FrontalRoutine
19971
0——Structure › Frame and MembersRoutine
19955
01—Parking BrakeRoutine
19942
1——Fuel System, Gasoline › Fuel Injection System › Fuel RailRoutine
19911
0——TiresRoutine

Data: NHTSA complaint and recall files, October 2026. Complaints are unverified owner reports.