2005 Ford Freestyle problems
Owners have filed 2,018 complaints with NHTSA about the 2005 Ford Freestyle. Cruise control is the most reported problem area, at 29% of complaints. Next are drivetrain & axles (16%) and engine (12%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 2,018 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Cruise control 29% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 53 and 5
- Injuries and deaths
- 21 and 0
- Typical mileage
- 80,000 miles 1,796 complaints with mileage
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%.
When problems show up
View the numbers
| Mileage | Complaints |
|---|---|
| 0k to 20k miles | 115 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 134 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 264 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 374 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 316 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 261 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 167 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 66 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 42 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 31 |
| 200k+ miles | 26 |
What the data shows
Of the 1,796 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 80,000 miles. For cruise control specifically, the median reported mileage is about 79,000 miles (534 complaints with mileage).
Safety-related details: 53 complaints mention a crash; 5 complaints mention a fire; 21 injuries reported. Its complaints are less severe on average than those of 90% of model years in our database.
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.
Crash @ approximately 45 miles per hour. T-boned a car that pulled in front of my car at a stop light. My car was totaled. My air bags did not go off. I feel that my injuries..of whiplash and another passengers would have been less or non existent if my air bags went off. Is this new air bag requirements really helping? Or is it just trying to save insurance companies from totaling cars that air bags deploy? Car will be signed off by tomorrow and insurance company will own the car.
Car stalls daily three times while driving, dealer cleaned the throttle body still stalls, another dealer cleaned the maf and changed the spark plugs and change CVT transmission fluid, still stalling. Need a new throttle body it is a common defect with ford and very dangerous some one will get killed because of it. My CVT transmission start to slip and needs replacement.
Purchased 2005 ford freestyle new in late 2005. In early 2007, with approximately 17,000 (yes, only 17k) miles on the vehicle, dealership starting telling me that I'll need to be thinking about new tires in the next 1-2 oil changes (which is 3-6,000 miles). I now have approximately 24k miles and I do need new tires. These tires wore extremely prematurely.
Was traveling at approximately 40 MPH when car suddenly jolted, as if it had struck something. After looking to insure nothing had been struck, we proceeded and the car made another odd noise and ceased to go forward. The transmission had blown and all fluids escaped. The car is ruined and from all I have read, this is a serious and extremely costly flaw costing consumers a small fortune and endangering lives on highways.