Other body or interior problem on the 2012 Ford Edge
3 crashes 3 of the 152 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 body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2012 Ford Edge report other body or interior problem at a median of 45,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 33,000 miles and a quarter after 59,000 miles, from 128 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 21,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 80,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 59,300 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
Reports bunched into a band this tight usually mean the component has a life of its own: it goes at roughly the same mileage regardless of who owns it.
29% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21,000 miles | 32,750 miles | 45,000 miles | 59,250 miles | 80,300 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, 3 a crash is 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 $200–$2,000 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 17 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2024, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2022 at 100,000 miles.
By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 292; the 2012 has 152. 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.
Driver: 83 year old woman... New auto: ford edge 2012, no injuries, vehicle damage approx $2000.00 no property damage..... Problem: lady stepped on accelerator rather than brake.... Reason: the brake pedal at rest is higher than the accelerator pedal at rest. The driver is used to an older (chrysler 2009) vehicle which there was not an appreciable difference in pedal height, stepped on the accelerator pedal, thinking she was stepping on the brake.... Resolution: discussing the incident, the woman was seated in the ford edge and asked to see if she felt a difference in height of the brake vs accelerator pedals. She did, and has since practiced going between pedals, lifting her foot to access the brake, rather than merely sliding her foot to the left........ It is this writers opinion that many of the unexplained accidents where a person, especially when an elderly person is driving, has mistook the accelerator for the brake is due to the height of pedal difference. ................ It might be wise to make aware this problem to manufacturers and the public. ........ Thanks *tr
Driver seat warmer failed to turn off when pressing buttons on myford touch system, or by turning off climate all together. It remained activated on high setting for 35 minutes. Seat warmers are suppose to turn off after 15 minutes. Only got it to turn off by turning vehicle completely off while stopped at a red light. I felt the heat on my back side for approximately 1 hour after. This vehicle "passed" the ford certified pre-owned check list. What a huge disappointment. *tr
Nhtsa, this has happened a few times and its a bit annoying. When driving, or even parked, the door ajar light would come on for the driver side door even though the door is firmly closed. Once you reopen the door, and close it again, the light _may or may not_ turn off. This has not only affected me, and a close neighbor, however it also happened to a number of people as well. The fix, according to ford, is to clean the latch assembly and if it fails, then replace. However this is a costly repair and since it affects so many ford vehicles, we believe this should be looked at by the NHTSA. *tr
Also reported on the 2012 Ford Edge
Other electrical problem
Door latch or handle failure
Master cylinder or brake booster failure
Other brake problem
Other lighting problem
Other engine problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 152 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 body or interior problem happen on the 2012 Ford Edge?
Across 128 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 45,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 33,000 miles and a quarter after 59,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 2012 Ford Edge?
152 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 11 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