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ABS module or sensor failure on the 2002 Ford F-150

Only 4 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 4
With an odometer reading 4
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 25%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $500–$2,400
What it means when it happens High
Rank among this year's problems 37th

When abs module or sensor failure gets reported

There are 4 reports of ABS module or sensor failure on the 2002 Ford F-150, 4 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 37th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 4 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 50,000 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 $500–$2,400 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 24 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2006, at a median of 1,800 miles, and latest on the 2012 at 145,000 miles.

By volume the 1997 carries the most reports, with 113; the 2002 has 4. 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.

Median
  1. 1996 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 110k
  2. 1997 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 80k
  3. 1998 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 76k
  4. 1999 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 74k
  5. 2000 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 69k
  6. 2001 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 35k
  7. 2002 (this one) 50k
  8. 2003 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 27k
  9. 2004 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 5k
  10. 2005 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 18k
  11. 2006 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 2k
  12. 2007 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 34k
  13. 2009 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 94k
  14. 2010 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 47k
  15. 2011 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 126k
  16. 2012 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 143k
  17. 2013 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 137k
  18. 2014 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 91k
  19. 2015 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 2k
  20. 2016 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 71k
  21. 2017 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 107k
  22. 2018 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 83k
  23. 2019 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 86k
  24. 2020 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 90k
  25. 2021 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 45k
  26. 2022 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  27. 2023 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2024 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 141k
  29. 2025 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure 52k
  30. 2026 Ford F-150 abs module or sensor failure
    no odometer readings given
    —

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.

Dt: consumer was emergency braking and had to yield to an emergency vehicle but brakes would not engage or stop the vehicle. This braking situation had been witness and verified by 2 experts with no known verified cause. Inspections have concluded that all current parts were within manufacturing specifications and guidelines. This was the only incident with brakes. Drove vehicle home, parked it , and took it to repair shop the next day. *ak

50,500 miles NHTSA complaint 535666 filed 2005-05-18

(1) without warning the brake light came on due to a failure of a hydraulic control unit, which would have ultimately lead to a failure of the ABS system if it weren't for the awareness of the driver. The failure of the ABS could have lead to an even greater catastrophe than just the cost of parts and labor. (2) it is my understanding through my research and the word of the service department at bozeman ford dealership in bozeman, montana that this particular problem is not unheard of. In fact, it has become enough of a problem that ford has made an attempt to correct the problem, by replacing the old hydraulic control unit with another hydraulic control unit, in addition to an electronic control unit and a bracket that mounts the two together. Although ford has made an attempt to resolve the problem, they have not made any strides in issuing a recall for the faulty hcu. Instead of replacing a $300 part (which isn't even manufactured any more) three new parts are to be installed a price of nearly $1000 including labor. (3) the truck is currently at the dealership being repaired, and apparently we will be stuck with the entire cost…

50,000 miles NHTSA complaint 546061 filed 2005-07-26

Abs system malfunctioned code reported by service tech was c-10-95 and stated that I would need to replace the hydraulic control unit. Failure occurred at only 17,500 mile on the unit. *jb

17,500 miles NHTSA complaint 560799 filed 2005-11-01

Also reported on the 2002 Ford F-150

Misfire or rough idle

214 reports median 96k

Fuel tank, filler or EVAP failure

63 reports median 122k

Other engine problem

61 reports median 100k

Seat belt or retractor failure

56 reports median 90k

Other electrical problem

53 reports median 80k

Cruise control failure

48 reports median 85k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 4 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 4 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 abs module or sensor failure happen on the 2002 Ford F-150?

Across 4 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.

How common is abs module or sensor failure on the 2002 Ford F-150?

4 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 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