1998 Ford Tempo

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the electrical system › ignition. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails
ComponentReportsCrashesFiresInjuries
Electrical System › Ignition1
000

What owners reported

Newest filings
Electrical System › Ignition
Filed Oct 20, 2000OK

VEHICLE STALLS WITH A LOSS OF TOTAL POWER. VEHICLE STALLED 3 TIMES TRYING TO GET IT HOME. IT WILL NOT START UNTIL IT HAS COOLED DOWN, THE REASON FOR THE STALLING IS BECAUSE THE IGNITION MODULE IS MOUNTED ON THE DISTRIBUTOR, WHEN THE TEMPERATURE GOES ABOVE 257 DEGRESS, THE MODULE IS LIKELY TO CUT OUT AND CAUSE VEHICLE TO STALL, SOME VEHICLES WERE RECALLED. *AK *SLC

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993
YearComplaintsRecallsFiresDeathsAssessment
20001000Routine
19991000Routine
1998 — this page1000Routine
19972000Routine
19962000Routine
19953000Routine
1994161150Routine
1993227251Fatalities reported
19921762211Fatalities reported
1991110161Fatalities reported
19901332270High concern

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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.