Ford Flex Body Problems
981 owner complaints filed with NHTSA across 11 model years.
Complaints by Year
Worst year: 2013. Best year: 2017.
Owner Reports
A representative sample of complaints filed with NHTSA.
The contact owns a 2019 Ford Flex. The contact stated that the rearview camera was inoperable or displayed an inverted image while reversing. The contact stated that while reversing, the rearview camera was inoperable, causing the vehicl...
The backup camera experiences intermittent error messages, doesn’t turn on, and 90% of the time the image is reversed like in a mirror
I was driving down the road, heard a pop, fishtailed then rolled over 1.5 times into a ditch. A rear suspension part broke, indicated by groves made at the scene and camber of tire after accident. The rollover could have seriously inju...
The contact owns a 2019 Ford Flex. The contact stated that while driving the vehicle at unknown speeds, the passenger's side rear door panel detached from the vehicle. The contact stated that it was unknown if the panel crashed into anot...
While traveling at highway speeds 75+ a loud bang and then control of vehicle was hard to keep on road, swerved left then right, left rear quarter panel hit guard rail and caused car to spin around and went sideways and backwards down a ...
UNKNOWN I was on the highway during dry conditions, and very suddenly fishtailed and swerved into another lane. Caused an accident. Could have been much worse. Rear driver's side wheel is not facing forward - tow driver says looks like ...
The cars rear toe link broke while driving. It cause the vehicle to go out of control and wreck I to the guard rail. Another motorist hit the car as it was wrecking. The local Ford dealership confirmed that the rear toe link failed and...
I went to my local dealership on request of the campaign recall for my associated vin The vehicle has a EPAS STEERING EFFORTS Details Description EPAS STEERING EFFORTS Campaign# 15N01 I was driving and lost control because the power ste...
On Friday, June 18, 2021 while driving my 2013 Ford Flex, the power steering went out while I was driving. I went online and found an OLD May 27, 2015 Ford Safety Recall for this issue but apparently it DID NOT include my car. Not sure ...
THE STEERING RACK AND PINION WENT OUT ON MY 2011 FORD FLEX. THE IS A RECALL ON FORD FLEX 2011-2013 BUT FORD KEEPS TELLING US IT IS NOT UNDER WARRANTY!!! WE HAD THIS REPLACED AND IT WENT OUT AGAIN 4 MONTHS LATER. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE ...
POWER STEERING WENT OUT WHILE DRIVING AT 70 MPH ON I-95 EXIT. VEHICLE VEERED OFF INTO DITCH. LUCKILY A NICE PERSON SAW ME GO OVER THE ROAD AND PULLED THE CAR OUT. CAR WAS TAKEN TO FORD WHO THEN CHARGED ME CLOSE TO 3,000 TO REPLACE A...
2013 FORD FLEX. CONSUMER WRITES IN REGARDS TO ILLUMINATED POWER STEERING LIGHT. *LD THE CONSUMER STATE WHILE DRIVING THE POWER STEERING WENT OUT WITH A VERY SHORT NOTICE. WHILE ATTEMPTING TO STOP THE VEHICLE SLOWLY RAN OVER A CURB. TH...