Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure on the 2000 Ford F-150
3 fires 1 injury 4 of the 153 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 fuel tank, filler or evap failure gets reported
Owners of the 2000 Ford F-150 report fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure at a median of 125,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 98,000 miles and a quarter after 168,000 miles, from 130 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 70,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 201,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 131,100 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.
2% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 70,000 miles | 98,000 miles | 124,800 miles | 167,543 miles | 201,100 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 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 $250–$1,800 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 22 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2018, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2024 at 145,000 miles.
By volume the 1997 carries the most reports, with 206; the 2000 has 153. 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.
The consumer stated while filling the gas tank, the nozzle flew. The consumer assumed the hose nozzle was faulty which did not allow him to pump gas. The dealer stated the fuel filler valve sticking. *ak *jb
Dt: the consumer stated that gas was leaking on 2000 ford f150. Consumer was smelling gas, and finally took the vehicle to to have it checked about a week later. The dealership inspected the truck and found the leak. The dealership replaced the gas tank. There were no recalls on the truck. The truck was fine once the new gas tank was installed. The owner called ford, and they said that there was no recalls on the truck. *ak
Dt: the consumer stated while traveling at 5 MPH in 2000 ford f150 the gas tank fell off the truck. The whole gas tank, lines and sensor fell right off the truck. The truck has been taken to a dealership for repairs. The consumer called ford, and ford stated, that they could not help out. The consumer said that everything was fine with the truck before this. The tank was completely full of fuel at the time.*ak
Also reported on the 2000 Ford F-150
Cruise control failure
Other electrical problem
Other engine problem
Other body or interior problem
Misfire or rough idle
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 153 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 fuel tank, filler or evap failure happen on the 2000 Ford F-150?
Across 130 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 125,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 98,000 miles and a quarter after 168,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is fuel tank, filler or evap failure on the 2000 Ford F-150?
153 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.8 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