Other body or interior problem on the 2014 Ford Fusion
1 crash 1 of the 89 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 2014 Ford Fusion report other body or interior problem at a median of 62,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 37,500 miles and a quarter after 87,500 miles, from 61 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 5th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 110,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 91,000 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.
20% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19,000 miles | 38,000 miles | 62,000 miles | 87,000 miles | 110,000 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
Of these reports, 1 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 15 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2017, at a median of 35,000 miles, and latest on the 2019 at 160,000 miles.
By volume the 2013 carries the most reports, with 145; the 2014 has 89. 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 interior of the car has a toxic smell from the carpet causing occupants to have migraine. The dealership steamed the carpet and it is same if not worse, I just don't believe it is safe for long trips especially in cold weather when opening the windows is foolish. Please advise on possible solutions. The dealership says there is nothing the can do to rid the car of the smell. *tr
Forward collision warning.this system is supposed to warn you that the car is stopped at a light and you approaches car or if he pulls in front of you slows down quick to give you sufficient time to stop.on my car you have to be 10 feet from the other car or at times it doesn't work at all. To prove this I have run many tests. The dealer says when following closely behind a vehicle or one stops quickly in front of you the red lights are not coming on the and activating the driver assisted braking. They have not been able to find any trouble and they say everything is working correctly. The said also the front crash sensors are not working and being too close to the vehicle front of them. I believe ford has engineered system poorly and it could be a danger to many families depending on this it is my belief that this should be looked into quickly prevent any possibility of a rear end crash and to warn them before the collision occurs. It is impossible to show you on this form a video to showing you how the system should perform. Hope you look into this matter quickly before it causes the bad rear end collision. Thank you *tr
From date of purchase to 9/24/14 I noticed cloudy blotches and streaks varying in number and size according to the direction looking and type of day on the rear window. At first I thought the window just had not been cleaned well. Looking through the rear view mirror these areas affect the drivers visual field by distorting and distracting the driver view. The ford mechanic verified seeing this & notified ford dealer hot line who also verified this issue was present. Also that this issue occurs during the tempering process of the glass & that there was no fix for this issue. I feel that a huge safety issue is present due to this issue which affects visual field of drivers & because it is impossible to get use to it because the blotches & streaks change continually according to type of day from sunny to cloudy or direction driving in or just how u might be looking at it. *tr
Also reported on the 2014 Ford Fusion
Other steering problem
Other powertrain problem
Other engine problem
Other electrical problem
Other brake problem
Steering rack, gear or tie rod failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 89 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 2014 Ford Fusion?
Across 61 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 62,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 37,500 miles and a quarter after 87,500 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 2014 Ford Fusion?
89 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.7 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