By model year

Ford Ranger by model year: recalls, complaints, ratings

For the Ford Ranger, matched NHTSA complaint counts in this table run from 7 (2026) to 670 (2000). 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 3 670 86 12 0 Pre-2011 15–22
2001 4 515 62 9 2 Pre-2011 15–23
2002 3 346 43 12 0 Pre-2011 15–23
2003 1 243 37 11 1 Pre-2011 15–23
2004 10 405 42 3 3 Pre-2011 15–23
2005 9 289 23 5 3 Pre-2011 15–23
2006 12 272 14 2 0 Pre-2011 15–23
2007 5 270 10 1 1 Pre-2011 15–23
2008 5 326 9 1 1 Pre-2011 15–23
2009 7 169 3 0 0 Pre-2011 15–23
2010 8 156 6 0 0 Pre-2011 15–24
2011 5 235 9 1 0 2 16–24
2019 11 270 13 2 0 4 18–23
2020 7 130 6 1 1 4 18–23
2021 6 118 6 3 0 4 18–23
2022 5 37 1 0 0 4 19–23
2023 4 18 2 1 0 4 19–23
2024 13 94 2 0 0 4 17–22
2025 13 44 3 0 0 4 17–23
2026 8 7 0 0 0 4 17–23

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.