Other powertrain problem on the 2017 Ford Fusion
2 crashes 1 injury 3 of the 120 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 powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2017 Ford Fusion report other powertrain problem at a median of 72,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 92,500 miles, from 84 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 120,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 100,700 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.
20% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19,300 miles | 45,617 miles | 71,532 miles | 91,500 miles | 120,000 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, 2 a crash 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 $400–$4,500 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 2012, at a median of 45,000 miles, and latest on the 2019 at 100,000 miles.
By volume the 2010 carries the most reports, with 689; the 2017 has 120. 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.
Tl* the contact owns a 2017 ford fusion. While driving various speeds, the vehicle stalled without warning. The vehicle was taken to a dealer where it was diagnosed that the shift modem failed and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure recurred. The vehicle was taken back to the dealer, but was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 7,000.
In july 2017 I purchased a 2017 ford fusion sport with the 2.7 v6 within 300 miles the vehicle stalled on a hill and the car started to roll backwards. I made an appointment and brought the car into the dealership I bought it from. They scanned the car and no codes came up and said there is nothing they can do without a code. I took the car and continued to drive it. It stalled several more times, brought it in again and no codes. They told me ford would not approve any repairs on this vehicle without having a code and a confirmed issue. I've been driving around in a death trap that could kill myself or someone else and ford won't help. I found on an online group other people have had this issue and have not gotten it resolved by ford. There are other issues with this vehicle to. But the stalling is unacceptable. The lemon law for my state says I must let have the chance to fix the car to qualify but the is no trace left behind after stalling therefore ford has nothing to repair. This vehicle is not safe to drive. Do not buy!
Driving on road roughly 40 MPH and vehicle completely lost power. Car lost power and started slowing down. Error message on the dash "full accessory power active:. Needed to immediately pull off to the right of the road in order to avoid traffic. This is a serious issue.
Also reported on the 2017 Ford Fusion
Other engine problem
Misfire or rough idle
Shifter, linkage or stuck-in-park failure
Other electrical problem
Other brake problem
No-start or intermittent start failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 120 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 powertrain problem happen on the 2017 Ford Fusion?
Across 84 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 72,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 45,000 miles and a quarter after 92,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2017 Ford Fusion?
120 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.9 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