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2005 Ford Freestyle stability control problems

16 complaints about stability control have been filed for the 2005 Ford Freestyle, which is <1% of all its NHTSA complaints.

At a glance

Complaints
16 1% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
117,000 miles 15 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
1 and 0
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When stability control problems show up

Stability control complaints by mileage, 2005 Ford Freestyle Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 117,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 1 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 0 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 1 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 1 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 3 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 2 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 3 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 2 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 1 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 1 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 117,000 miles
Based on 15 complaints that include mileage. 13% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles1
20k to 40k miles0
40k to 60k miles1
60k to 80k miles1
80k to 100k miles3
100k to 120k miles2
120k to 140k miles3
140k to 160k miles2
160k to 180k miles1
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles1

What the data shows

Of the 15 stability control complaints that report mileage, the median is about 117,000 miles, and 13% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 1 crash, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

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.

Reported at 78,000 miles, March 2013 CrashInjury

I have a 2005 sel freestyle with about 130k miles on it. This morning while driving to work with speed of 55MPH all of a sudden the ABS and AWD lights came on and the message center displayed "check traction control" and "AWD malfunction", then entire panel went dark (RPM, gas, oil, speed and odometer). I noticed that the gauges were making a ticking noise at that time as well. I pulled off the main hwy and shut car off, I then tried to restart the car.

Reported at 130,000 miles, November 2013

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