1999 Ford Tempo

Routine

Owners filed 1 complaints about this vehicle with federal regulators, most often about the visibility › windshield wiper/washer. No safety recall has been issued.

What fails

Component	Reports		Crashes	Fires	Injuries
Visibility › Windshield Wiper/Washer	1		0	0	0

What owners reported

Newest filings

Visibility › Windshield Wiper/Washer

Filed Aug 16, 2001GA

WINDSHIELD WIPERS OPERATE WHILE SWITCH IS OFF INTERMITTENTLY. CONTACTED DEALER, AND DEALER STATED CONSUMER WOULD HAVE TO PAY A FEE TO GET VEHICLE CHECKED.*AK

1 of 1 complaints, reproduced as filed.

Across model years

Worst on record: 1993

Year	Complaints	Recalls	Fires	Deaths	Assessment
2000	1	0	0	0	Routine
1999 — this page	1	0	0	0	Routine
1998	1	0	0	0	Routine
1997	2	0	0	0	Routine
1996	2	0	0	0	Routine
1995	3	0	0	0	Routine
1994	161	1	5	0	Routine
1993	227	2	5	1	Fatalities reported
1992	176	2	21	1	Fatalities reported
1991	110	1	6	1	Fatalities reported
1990	133	2	27	0	High 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.