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Engine bay fire on the 2024 Ford F-150

Only 0 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 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $4,000–$20,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 38th

When engine bay fire gets reported

There are 1 report of engine bay fire on the 2024 Ford F-150. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 38th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $4,000–$20,000 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 10 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2016, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 145,000 miles.

By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 23; the 2024 has 0. 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 engine bay fire 85k
  2. 1997 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 144k
  3. 1998 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 144k
  4. 1999 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 122k
  5. 2000 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 97k
  6. 2001 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 119k
  7. 2002 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 109k
  8. 2003 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 188k
  9. 2004 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 104k
  10. 2006 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 210k
  11. 2007 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 164k
  12. 2008 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 82k
  13. 2009 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 81k
  14. 2011 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 5k
  15. 2013 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 101k
  16. 2015 Ford F-150 engine bay fire
    no odometer readings given
    —
  17. 2016 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 120
  18. 2017 Ford F-150 engine bay fire
    no odometer readings given
    —
  19. 2018 Ford F-150 engine bay fire 65k
  20. 2019 Ford F-150 engine bay fire
    no odometer readings given
    —
  21. 2020 Ford F-150 engine bay fire
    no odometer readings given
    —
  22. 2021 Ford F-150 engine bay fire
    no odometer readings given
    —
  23. 2023 Ford F-150 engine bay fire
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2024 (this one)
    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

Also reported on the 2024 Ford F-150

Other electrical problem

23 reports median 68k

Other engine problem

20 reports median 18k

Other powertrain problem

16 reports median 49k

Other driver assistance problem

13 reports median 30k

Other body or interior problem

8 reports median 55k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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.

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