Other engine problem on the 2009 Ford Edge
1 crash 1 fire 1 injury 3 of the 15 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other engine problem gets reported
Owners of the 2009 Ford Edge report other engine problem at a median of 85,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 110,000 miles, from 12 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 6th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 135,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 114,250 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
17% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21,050 miles | 46,250 miles | 83,899 miles | 112,275 miles | 135,300 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
Of these reports, 1 a crash, 1 a fire and 1 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$4,000 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 16 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2022, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2008 at 87,500 miles.
By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 390; the 2009 has 15. 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 bought my 2009 ford edge brand new (7 miles on it) back in may 2009. For the past month or so it has been stalling out for no apparent reason. Have brought it to a ford dealership two times now and they can not find anything wrong with the car. I searched online and have found that many people have been having this problem but the dealership can not figure it out because they can not reproduce the stalling and no lights come on so the defect is never stored in the cars computer. Ford needs to get their [xxx] together! No wonder people refer to ford as found on road dead. Mine sure as [xxx] is. Now I have a 35 thousand dollar lawn ornament !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6). *tr
Tl*the contact owns a 2009 ford edge. While driving approximately 10 MPH, the vehicle stalled. The contact turned the ignition on and the vehicle was able to start. The contact stated that the failure occurred approximately ten times. The vehicle was taken to the dealer three times. The technicians were unable to diagnose or duplicate the failure. The technicians performed a computer update but the vehicle continued to stall. The manufacturer was contacted and stated the dealer could not duplicate the failure so no repairs could be made. The approximate failure mileage was 18,500.
Tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford edge. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vehicle jerked and bounced making it difficult to stop and the check engine warning light illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer but the vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The failure mileage was 44,000.
Also reported on the 2009 Ford Edge
Airbag inflator rupture
Other brake problem
Master cylinder or brake booster failure
Other powertrain problem
Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure
Tail light, brake light or signal failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 15 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 engine problem happen on the 2009 Ford Edge?
Across 12 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 110,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2009 Ford Edge?
15 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.2 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