Vehicle report
1999 FORD EXPLORER
This model year
What the record shows
The 1999 Ford Explorer is the 23rd model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 1977 to 2027.
The federal record holds 1,348 owner complaints, 1 investigation and 401 service bulletins for it.
Counts are reports, not rates. A complaint is something an owner chose to file; it is unverified and unadjusted for how many of these cars were sold, so the useful comparison is against other model years of the same car. Recalls and investigations carry more weight because a manufacturer or regulator acted on them.
Reading this report
Complaint counts are reports filed with NHTSA, not failure rates. A common model collects more of them than a rare one that breaks more often.