2000 Ford Mustang problems
Owners have filed 427 complaints with NHTSA about the 2000 Ford Mustang. Brakes is the most reported problem area, at 17% of complaints. Next are engine (11%) and air bags (10%).
At a glance
- Complaints
- 427 filed with NHTSA
- Most reported
- Brakes 17% of complaints
- Crashes and fires
- 64 and 10
- Injuries and deaths
- 50 and 2
- Typical mileage
- 64,000 miles 117 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 | 16 |
| 20k to 40k miles | 14 |
| 40k to 60k miles | 24 |
| 60k to 80k miles | 23 |
| 80k to 100k miles | 11 |
| 100k to 120k miles | 16 |
| 120k to 140k miles | 6 |
| 140k to 160k miles | 3 |
| 160k to 180k miles | 1 |
| 180k to 200k miles | 3 |
| 200k+ miles | 0 |
What the data shows
Of the 117 complaints that include odometer readings, half describe a problem before roughly 64,000 miles.
Safety-related details: 64 complaints mention a crash; 10 complaints mention a fire; 50 injuries reported; 2 deaths reported. Its complaints are more severe on average than those of 85% 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 2000 ranks 7th most-complained-about out of 36 model years of the Ford Mustang with enough data (291 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.
Consumers son was involved in a fatal accident. While in motion the vehicle left the road and crashed into a pole. All four tires were blown. Prior to the incident, the son reported the two back tires had blown out. Once while he, the son was driving. The other, his wife was driving. In the fatal accident, there was a passenger who was badly injured.
Brake problems prior to accident, brakes would lock up, and stayed locked even after foot taken off brake pedal. Took vehicle to dealer twice, could not find anything wrong. While driving about 37 MPH vehicle went off road and into culvert.
My wife (donna) on her way home from work became involved in an accident where the air bags did not deploy when they should have. She was clipped on the left rear quarter panel which spun her around causing a second SUV to impact the drivers door pushing her and flipping her until she impacted a cement barrier between opposite traveled lanes. The impact at the barrier was stong enough that it pushed the radiator aginst the motor and the motor toward the firewall.
I bought a 2000 ford mustang and three days later I noticed the shift indicator position marker on the floor was not showing what gear the car was in. This could cause an accident during day and most likely during night driving and could also cause tranmission problems not being able to see the gear shift position.
Hard to shift into first gear of neutral from a stopped position on the v6 manual transmission on the 2000 ford mustang, also paint is bubbling and cracking on roof in multiple spots, have seen same problem with paint posted for all models ford from 2000-20005.