1994 Ford Aspire problems
The 1994 Ford Aspire has 67 complaints on file with NHTSA. The largest share (25%) concerns air bags. After that come wipers, windshield & visibility (10%) and lighting (9%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 67 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Air bags 25% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 18 and 2
- Injuries and deaths
- 16 and 2
Source: NHTSA owner complaints
Where the complaints are
Share of this model year's complaints by the part of the car involved. One complaint can name more than one part, so the shares can add up to more than 100%.
What the data shows
Safety-related details: 18 complaints mention a crash; 2 complaints mention a fire; 16 injuries reported; 2 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 98% of model years in our database.
Looking only at complaints filed within five years of the model year (so older and newer years are comparable), the 1994 ranks 3rd most-complained-about out of 4 model years of the Ford Aspire with enough data (46 complaints in that window). It is also covered by 2 safety recall campaigns.
What owners wrote
A few complaints as filed, shortened and with personal details removed. The first ones are among the most serious reports for this model year; the rest are typical.
Marina garica 5 feet tall, 250 pounds was in an accident in low speed in which she rearended another vehicle, causing driver's and passenger's air bags to deploy, resulting in chest trauma and a fatality with almost no damage to the vehicle. No previous problem with air bag system prior to accident.
Friend was holding 22-month old child and vehicle struck another vehicle in the rear and the air bag deployed, hitting the child in the lower neck and causing the child to die right on the seen.
Consumer was in an accident and driver side air bag did not deploy fullly-driver's arm was injured by partial inflated air bag. Tt passenger was injuried as well.
At highway speed the speedometer suddenly began to make a loud, grinding noise. The needle shot up to a speed far higher than the speed of the car. The needled vibrated, then broke off. We were particularly concerned because this speedometer failure was almost an exact duplicate of the speedometer failure on our other ford aspire (see claim # 10018380). We now have two aspires with no speedometers.