Unclassified problem on the 2007 Ford Ranger
5 crashes 4 injuries 9 of the 62 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.
Only 14 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.
When unclassified problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Ford Ranger report unclassified problem at a median of 85,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles, from 14 reports that carried an odometer reading.
It is the 21st most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 10,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 145,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 135,222 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.
29% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11,978 miles | 34,750 miles | 87,000 miles | 98,250 miles | 147,200 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, 5 a crash and 4 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.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 19 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2019, at a median of 5,000 miles, and latest on the 2025 at 140,000 miles.
By volume the 2004 carries the most reports, with 87; the 2007 has 62. 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.
Follow up report re:odi 10205570 I took my other ranger p/u to dealership to have airbag and wiring checked also I have rattle noise in left side rear wheel and plastic cover asy.changed dealership had my truck from 10-15-07 to 10-19-07 got truck back they said everything was fixed took truck on highway rattle sound still there wife contacted dealership to ask if part was ordered and or part was replaced service person stated no also looks like nothing was done to this truck!!! I am going to take my truck to another dealership. I don't trust the dealership I bought my two new ford rangers from. *tr
Tl* the contact owned a 2007 ford ranger. The contact was driving approximately 40 MPH when the vehicle independently veered off of the road. The vehicle drove into a ditch and then crashed into a tree. The contact sustained extensive facial and eye injuries. He was transported to a trauma center via helicopter. A police report was available. The vehicle was destroyed and towed to a storage lot to be used for parts. The failure and current mileages were approximately 28,750.
Tl* the contact owned a 2007 ford ranger. While driving approximately 40 MPH, the contact crashed into the preceding vehicle. Both air bags failed to deploy. No injuries were sustained and a police report was filed. The vehicle was destroyed and towed to a body shop. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 33,000. Updated 6/22/15*cn
Also reported on the 2007 Ford Ranger
Airbag inflator rupture
Other body or interior problem
Other wheel or tire problem
Liftgate, tailgate or trunk failure
Blower motor or climate control failure
Other engine problem
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 62 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 62 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 unclassified problem happen on the 2007 Ford Ranger?
Across 14 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 35,000 miles and a quarter after 100,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is unclassified problem on the 2007 Ford Ranger?
62 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 1.0 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