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Brakes · 2 owner reports

Loss of braking on the 2019 Ford Ranger

1 crash 1 of the 2 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 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 2
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 1
Typical repair $400–$3,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 36th

When loss of braking gets reported

There are 2 reports of loss of braking on the 2019 Ford Ranger. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 36th 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

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 $400–$3,000 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 9 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2021, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 1997 at 170,000 miles.

By volume the 2000 carries the most reports, with 16; the 2019 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 Ranger loss of braking 90k
  2. 1997 Ford Ranger loss of braking 171k
  3. 1998 Ford Ranger loss of braking 170k
  4. 1999 Ford Ranger loss of braking 55k
  5. 2000 Ford Ranger loss of braking 43k
  6. 2001 Ford Ranger loss of braking 20k
  7. 2002 Ford Ranger loss of braking 19k
  8. 2003 Ford Ranger loss of braking 16k
  9. 2004 Ford Ranger loss of braking 40k
  10. 2005 Ford Ranger loss of braking 40k
  11. 2019 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  12. 2021 Ford Ranger loss of braking 50
  13. 2024 Ford Ranger loss of braking
    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 2019 Ford Ranger

Other powertrain problem

53 reports median 66k

Other electrical problem

26 reports median 12k

Other engine problem

18 reports median 18k

Other brake problem

17 reports median 11k

Other visibility problem

16 reports median 30k

Misfire or rough idle

12 reports median 55k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 2 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 2 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