Other powertrain problem on the 2007 Ford Edge
When other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Ford Edge report other powertrain problem at a median of 85,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 52,000 miles and a quarter after 102,000 miles, from 100 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 16,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 131,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 114,705 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
19% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15,935 miles | 51,561 miles | 85,000 miles | 102,250 miles | 130,640 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Putting it right typically runs $400–$4,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 18 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2024, at a median of 1,600 miles, and latest on the 2022 at 95,000 miles.
By volume the 2008 carries the most reports, with 182; the 2007 has 113. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
I own a 2007 ford edge, purchased in may 2007. The transmission seems to "shudder" when upshifting or downshifting at speeds between 35-55 MPH. It is apparent when taking your foot off the gas to slow and then applying gas to speed back up. I have taken the vehicle back to the dealership to be checked and was told it was probably "flat spots" on the tires and the problen would go away after 3000 or so miles to give the tires an opportunity to round out. The vehicle was taken in a second time and taken to another dealership for their transmission mechanic to look at. They had the vehicle for over 10 hours and couldn't seem to find anything wrong or get the vehicle to duplicate the problem we brought it in for. The vehicle now has 5600 miles on it and the problem seems to be getting worse. I am going to take it back to the dealer to have it checked again. This time, I'm going to demand to take a drive in another edge to see if it has the same shifting problems I am currently having.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 ford edge. While the vehicle was idling on an incline, the contact removed her foot from the brake pedal. Before she could depress the accelerator pedal, the vehicle rolled backwards. The dealer stated that the failure was normal. The failure mileage was 200 and current mileage was 3,000. The consumer stated the vehicle will roll back on any type of incline while in the drive position and the dealer stated this process is normal. Updated 11/06/07 *tr
When the edge is in drive and stopped on an incline it will roll backward when you release the brake. It doesn't just roll back a little....it will continue to roll back until you give it some gas or step on the brake. The first time it happened I almost rolled back into the car behind me. I have never experienced this rollback in an automatic vehicle. I read on the internet that there was a tsb for this and took my edge in to have it "reflashed" (as recommended on a ford edge forum) but was told by the dealer that there was no fix (and no such tsb) for it and that this is normal. I feel it is a danger and should be corrected or at the very least mentioned in the owners manual. *tr
Also reported on the 2007 Ford Edge
Airbag inflator rupture
Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure
Master cylinder or brake booster failure
Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure
Misfire or rough idle
Fuel leak or fuel odor
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 113 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other powertrain problem happen on the 2007 Ford Edge?
Across 100 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 52,000 miles and a quarter after 102,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2007 Ford Edge?
113 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.7 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed