By model year

Ford Explorer by model year: recalls, complaints, ratings

For the Ford Explorer, matched NHTSA complaint counts in this table run from 0 (2027) to 3,295 (2002). The complaint file is dated Oct 23, 2026. These are raw counts, not rates. A higher count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported.

ABOUT THIS DATA

The table lists raw counts from NHTSA's files. A larger complaint count can mean more vehicles were sold, and newer model years have had less time for complaints to be reported. The counts are not divided by sales. This page does not rank one model year above another.

One row per model year. Complaint and recall figures are matched raw counts.

2000	9	952	101	64	4	Pre-2011	15–18
2001	6	375	64	21	2	Pre-2011	15–18
2002	4	3,295	144	57	7	Pre-2011	14–17
2003	2	1,131	60	10	3	Pre-2011	15–17
2004	0	1,304	58	15	4	Pre-2011	15–16
2005	0	497	22	6	2	Pre-2011	14–16
2006	1	630	13	7	0	Pre-2011	15–16
2007	1	208	11	5	1	Pre-2011	15–16
2008	1	148	6	3	1	Pre-2011	15–16
2009	0	33	5	0	0	Pre-2011	15–17
2010	1	115	8	0	1	Pre-2011	15–17
2011	6	1,197	30	4	4	—	19–20
2012	5	829	10	6	4	4	19–23
2013	11	2,237	44	11	6	5	18–23
2014	6	1,684	32	6	4	5	18–23
2015	8	1,810	37	1	5	5	18–23
2016	14	2,462	39	14	2	5	18–22
2017	13	1,703	34	11	2	5	18–22
2018	7	734	16	7	2	5	18–22
2019	6	299	2	0	1	5	18–22
2020	33	1,241	37	10	3	5	19–28
2021	26	447	14	5	2	5	19–27
2022	24	271	17	1	2	—	19–27
2023	15	111	7	2	0	5	20–27
2024	10	21	2	1	0	5	20–24
2025	20	107	8	0	0	5	20–24
2026	14	42	3	0	0	5	19–24
2027	1	0	0	0	0	5	19–23

Star columns say "Pre-2011" for older model years because those ratings use a different NHTSA method. Overall stars for 2011 and newer are the matched Safety Ratings variants. A dash means no overall star was matched.