NHTSA Safety Recalls
2005 Ford Taurus Recalls
The 2005 Ford Taurus has 1 NHTSA safety recall on file.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2005 Ford Taurus. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 1
- Owner complaints
- 774
- Crashes reported
- 40
- NHTSA crash test
- ★★★★☆
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
10 fires
frontal crash, no overall star before 2011
On a 2005 Ford Taurus, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
1 recall on the 2005 Ford Taurus
Service brakes, hydraulic: foundation components: disc: pads
- Campaign
- 16E026000
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2001–2004, 2006–2007 Taurus, 2 other models
2005 Ford Taurus complaints by year
NHTSA has received 774 owner complaints about the 2005 Ford Taurus, the newest on October 3, 2023. Of these, 40 describe a crash (5%) and 10 a fire; owners reported 28 injuries and 2 deaths.
In complaints about the 2005 Ford Taurus, the component group named most often is the vehicle speed control (68%), followed by the power train (16%) and the engine (9%).
The 2005 Ford Taurus's only recall does not concern the vehicle speed control.
Where 2005 Ford Taurus owners gave the mileage (703 complaints), the median was 90,000 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Vehicle Speed Control529
- Power Train123
- Engine68
- Engine And Engine Cooling40
- Fuel/Propulsion System29
- Electrical System28
Complaints received, by year
| 2005 | 10 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 15 | |
| 2007 | 22 | |
| 2008 | 15 | |
| 2009 | 24 | |
| 2010 | 54 | |
| 2011 | 37 | |
| 2012 | 262 | |
| 2013 | 119 | |
| 2014 | 79 | |
| 2015 | 47 | |
| 2016 | 30 | |
| 2017 | 10 | |
| 2018 | 22 | |
| 2019 | 17 | |
| 2020 | 5 | |
| 2021 | 3 | |
| 2022 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 1 |
Complaints about the 2005 Ford Taurus peaked in 2012, when NHTSA received 262. 8% arrived between 2004 and 2008, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2005 vehicles, the 2005 Ford Taurus drew 1.2× the complaints of the median Ford Taurus year in the same window: 7th highest of the 18 ranked years.
NHTSA crash-test stars
- Overall: none before 2011
- Frontal: 4/5
- Side: 3/5
The 774 complaints about the 2005 Ford Taurus are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Ford Taurus by model year
Other 2005 Ford models
Newest record on this page: October 3, 2023. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted