Vehicle report
1986 FORD F250
This model year
What the record shows
The 1986 Ford F250 is the 19th model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 1968 to 2008.
The federal record holds 38 owner complaints and 17 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.