1998 Ford School Bus

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the air bags › frontal. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Air Bags › Frontal1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Air Bags › Frontal
Filed Nov 22, 1999KS

DRIVER SIDE AIR BAG EXPERIENCED FALSE DEPLOYMENT, WHEN THERE WAS NO ACCIDENT INVOLVED. YH

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1995
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
1998 — this page1000Routine
19971000Routine
19955010Routine
19942100Routine
19911000Routine

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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.