Vehicle report

2002 FORD WINDSTAR

Reported complaints1353
Recalls6
Investigations1
Service bulletins119
Combined MPG
Best crash rating

This model year

What the record shows

The 2002 Ford Windstar is the 18th model year of a nameplate NHTSA records from 1985 to 2005.

The federal record holds 1,353 owner complaints, 6 safety recalls, 1 investigation and 119 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.