Other body or interior problem: which cars, and at what mileage
Where other body or interior problem shows up
Other body or interior problem has been reported to NHTSA 102,790 times across 11,180 model years, and the median report arrives at 62,000 miles miles. Measured per 1,000 vehicles built, the 2020 Ford Escape Hybrid leads the list.
That is earlier than the 88,000 miles this part is normally expected to survive, which is usually why people file in the first place.
At what mileage do body and interior problems get reported?
What other body or interior problem means here
Complaints are assigned to this mode by matching the owner's own description against a phrase list held in the failure-mode catalogue. The match is made on the text, never on the part number, because owners describe symptoms and not components. It is accurate in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Where it has to be repaired rather than lived with, $200–$2,000 is the range this site publishes for an independent US shop. It is an editorial estimate, not a figure from NHTSA, and it does not include diagnosis or the labour a dealer would add.
The catalogue classes this mode as moderate, which is what decides its weight in every risk score it contributes to.
Where it starts earliest
Ranked by median reported mileage instead of by rate, the earliest onset is on the 1996 Plymouth Breeze. Sorted that way the leaders are 1996 Plymouth Breeze at 0 miles, 2000 Unknown Unknown at 0 miles and 2006 GMC Canyon at 0 miles.
Early onset and high rate are different findings. A car that reports this failure rarely but at 40,000 miles is a warranty problem; one that reports it often at 140,000 miles is closer to wear. Both belong on the page, and neither answers the other's question.
Ranked by median reported mileage, lowest first. The faint bar runs from the 10th percentile to the median, so a long tail to the left means some owners hit it very early indeed.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
Which vehicles report it most
The table below ranks 40 model years by reports per 1,000 vehicles built rather than by raw count, which is the only way a ranking like this stays honest: a model that sold two million copies will out-report one that sold thirty thousand even if it is the better car.
At the top, the 2020 Ford Escape Hybrid shows 4,857 per 1,000 with 102 reports on file.
Dodge accounts for 30% of the worst-affected entries on this list, which usually means a shared part, a shared platform, or a shared supplier rather than 12 separate faults.
Longer is worse. The denominator is an estimate of how many of that model year are on the road, derived from the vehicle counts in recall campaigns, so a rare car with a real problem can outrank a common one. Colour is the vehicle's overall risk band, not this mode alone.
| Vehicle | Reports | Per 1,000 | Median | Reported early | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 Ford Escape Hybrid | 102 | 4,857.1 | 35k | 52% | High confidence |
| 2004 Ford Explorer | 254 | 1,270.0 | 70k | 11% | High confidence |
| 2013 Vanguard Dry Freight Van Trailer | 59 | 1,229.2 | — | 0% | Moderate confidence |
| 2000 Toyota 4RUNNER | 142 | 710.0 | 147k | 1% | High confidence |
| 2005 Ford Explorer | 100 | 500.0 | 77k | 5% | High confidence |
| 1999 Toyota 4RUNNER | 66 | 330.0 | 157k | 0% | High confidence |
| 2017 Dodge Grand Caravan | 109 | 196.4 | 70k | 2% | High confidence |
| 1999 Dodge RAM 1500 | 248 | 162.1 | 87k | 9% | High confidence |
| 2011 Ford Edge | 263 | 124.9 | 50k | 22% | High confidence |
| 1998 Dodge RAM 1500 | 120 | 78.4 | 94k | 5% | High confidence |
| 1997 Dodge RAM 1500 | 87 | 56.9 | 93k | 19% | High confidence |
| 2001 Dodge RAM 1500 | 548 | 48.2 | 76k | 10% | High confidence |
| 2016 Dodge Grand Caravan | 198 | 45.2 | 56k | 18% | High confidence |
| 2011 Toyota Camry | 64 | 41.3 | 50k | 29% | High confidence |
| 2000 Dodge RAM 1500 | 252 | 22.2 | 78k | 11% | High confidence |
| 2008 Nissan Altima | 322 | 22.1 | 65k | 18% | High confidence |
| 2016 Chrysler Town And Country | 92 | 21.0 | 62k | 8% | High confidence |
| 2013 Ford Edge | 287 | 20.6 | 43k | 23% | High confidence |
| 2015 Chrysler Town And Country | 84 | 19.2 | 69k | 17% | High confidence |
| 2001 Dodge RAM 2500 | 170 | 14.9 | 91k | 7% | High confidence |
| 2015 Dodge Grand Caravan | 61 | 13.9 | 65k | 13% | High confidence |
| 2009 Nissan Altima | 91 | 13.8 | 60k | 15% | High confidence |
| 2000 Toyota Tundra | 316 | 11.5 | 112k | 4% | High confidence |
| 2012 Ford Edge | 151 | 10.8 | 45k | 29% | High confidence |
| 2001 Isuzu Rodeo | 146 | 10.7 | 116k | 3% | High confidence |
| 2004 Kia Optima | 90 | 9.9 | 93k | 10% | High confidence |
| 2010 Mazda Mazda3 | 260 | 7.5 | 55k | 21% | High confidence |
| 2005 Nissan Murano | 506 | 7.0 | 68k | 6% | High confidence |
| 2007 Dodge Caliber | 85 | 6.8 | 100k | 13% | High confidence |
| 2020 Ford Escape | 659 | 6.6 | 45k | 28% | High confidence |
| 2004 Chrysler Pacifica | 217 | 6.3 | 104k | 9% | High confidence |
| 2004 Toyota Sienna | 1,027 | 5.9 | 80k | 7% | High confidence |
| 2005 Dodge Grand Caravan | 304 | 5.9 | 62k | 11% | High confidence |
| 2005 Chrysler Crossfire | 59 | 5.7 | 47k | 29% | Moderate confidence |
| 2016 Kia Sorento | 75 | 5.3 | 50k | 36% | High confidence |
| 2000 Dodge RAM 2500 | 60 | 5.3 | 80k | 15% | High confidence |
| 2003 Kia Optima | 67 | 5.2 | 93k | 2% | High confidence |
| 2006 Nissan Murano | 369 | 5.1 | 70k | 5% | High confidence |
| 2007 Toyota FJ Cruiser | 163 | 4.9 | 31k | 54% | High confidence |
| 2000 Isuzu Rodeo | 61 | 4.5 | 118k | 4% | High confidence |
“Reported early” is the share of this vehicle's reports for this mode that came in below 36,000 miles. Rates are missing where we have no fleet-size estimate for that model year.
How to read this page
Nothing here is a defect investigation. It is a count of what owners chose to write to a federal agency about, sorted so that the sales figures do not decide the order. 102,790 reports is a floor: for every owner who filed, some number simply paid the bill and moved on.
If a specific car matters to you, the useful page is the model-year one, where this mode is shown against every other failure reported on the same vehicle. A single failure mode read on its own always looks worse than it is.
Questions this page answers
Which cars have the most other body or interior problem complaints?
Per 1,000 vehicles built, the 2020 Ford Escape Hybrid leads with 102 reports. Ranking by rate rather than raw count keeps high-volume models from topping the list on sales alone.
At what mileage does other body or interior problem usually get reported?
Across the whole fleet the median report is at 62,000 miles. Individual model years vary widely, which is what the table below shows.
Why the two lists differ. A mode can be common and late (wear that everyone eventually meets) or rare and early (a genuine defect in one production run). The second is what you want to avoid when buying, and it only becomes visible when you separate rate from timing. Both columns come from the same reports; neither is a failure rate, because complaints are voluntary. How this is computed.
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