Other visibility problem on the 2015 Ford Edge
1 injury 1 of the 37 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 visibility problem gets reported
Owners of the 2015 Ford Edge report other visibility problem at a median of 57,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 67,500 miles, from 28 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 75,000 miles. It is the 7th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 17,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 82,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 65,960 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.
29% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17,100 miles | 35,488 miles | 57,500 miles | 66,500 miles | 83,060 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 an injury 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 $150–$1,400 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 14 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2007, at a median of 1,000 miles, and latest on the 2010 at 65,000 miles.
By volume the 2015 is the worst of them, which makes this a problem of this specific year rather than of the model as a whole.
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.
The rear glass vista roof panel cracked along the entirety of the glass roof. Cracks all along every edge of the glass that don't intersect with each other and ford claims that one area had to be the point of impact. There is no way possible for glass to crack on the opposite end and doesn't intersect with the alleged point of impact for it to have been the cause. I believe the glass is structurally defective and ford will not cover it under the bumper to bumper warranty we purchased for the vehicle. Ford gives the service manager the authority to deny the warranty, yet had to give the same service manager guidance on how to test the glass. Ford stated I needed to file an insurance claim instead....updated 09/22/15 *bf updated 3/23/2016*js
The vehicle was parked in my driveway and occupied by myself and three children in the back seat. The window imploded when the front passenger door was closed as my husband entered the SUV. My son in the back seat received a small cut over his left eye, another child was hit by the glass but uninjured.
My rear windshield shattered for no reason. I was pulling out of a parking spot and heard a loud pop. Nothing had hit my car, no one was around, nothing fell from the sky or off of a building. My rear windshield basically just exploded and cracked from one side to the other, across the bottom and then buckled and cracked up the center. Shards of glass were falling into the car and also pouring out the bottom of the window. Glass has now fallen into the rear gate.
Also reported on the 2015 Ford Edge
Other engine problem
Other brake problem
Other powertrain problem
Sunroof failure or glass breakage
Other body or interior problem
Other electrical problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 37 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 visibility problem happen on the 2015 Ford Edge?
Across 28 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 57,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 67,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other visibility problem on the 2015 Ford Edge?
37 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.4 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