1996 Ford Sho (taurus)

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the engine and engine cooling › engine. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine1
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What owners reported

Newest filings
Engine and Engine Cooling › Engine
Filed Mar 18, 2002WA

WHEN DRIVING ENGINE'S CAMSHAFT WOULD FAIL. EACH TIME THIS CAUSES VEHICLE TO SHUTDOWN OR STALL OUT. OIL WOULD LEAK AND CAUSE OVERHEATING. ENGINE MANUFACTURED BY YAMAHA AND DISTRIBUTED BY FORD. VEHICLE AND PARTS NO LONGER MANUFACTURED. *AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1999
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
19998000Routine
19984000Routine
1996 — this page1000Routine

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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.