NHTSA Safety Recalls
2012 Ford Flex Recalls
The 2012 Ford Flex has 2 NHTSA safety recalls on file, the newest reported on April 26, 2016.
A recall covers a range of VINs, not every 2012 Ford Flex. Whether a recall on your own car is still open shows only on a VIN check; recall repairs are free.
- Recalls
- 2
- Owner complaints
- 64
- Crashes reported
- 4
- NHTSA crash test
- Not rated
NHTSA campaigns
filed with NHTSA
1 fires
On a 2012 Ford Flex, the 17-character VIN is on the driver-side dashboard, visible through the windshield, or on the door jamb sticker.
2 recalls on the 2012 Ford Flex
Air bags: frontal
- Campaign
- 16V247000
- Reported
- April 26, 2016
- Vehicles affected
- up to 695
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash and injury
- Federal standard
- FMVSS 208, occupant crash protection
- Same campaign
- also 2009–2011 Flex, 4 other models
Steering: electric power assist system
- Campaign
- 15V340000
- Reported
- June 2, 2015
- Vehicles affected
- up to 393,623
- Risk NHTSA names
- crash
- Same campaign
- also 2011, 2013 Flex, 6 other models
2012 Ford Flex complaints by year
NHTSA has received 64 owner complaints about the 2012 Ford Flex, the newest on December 30, 2025. Of these, 4 describe a crash (6%) and 1 a fire; owners reported 4 injuries.
In complaints about the 2012 Ford Flex, the component group named most often is the steering (38%), followed by the engine (17%) and the electrical system (16%).
1 of the 2012 Ford Flex's 2 recalls also concerns the steering.
Where 2012 Ford Flex owners gave the mileage (46 complaints), the median was 60,012 miles.
Component groups named in complaints
- Steering24
- Engine11
- Electrical System10
- Service Brakes8
- Fuel/Propulsion System5
- Unknown Or Other5
Complaints received, by year
| 2012 | 2 | |
|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 5 | |
| 2014 | 5 | |
| 2015 | 5 | |
| 2016 | 7 | |
| 2017 | 6 | |
| 2018 | 3 | |
| 2019 | 5 | |
| 2020 | 6 | |
| 2021 | 5 | |
| 2022 | 2 | |
| 2023 | 5 | |
| 2024 | 3 | |
| 2025 | 5 |
Complaints about the 2012 Ford Flex peaked in 2016, when NHTSA received 7. 27% arrived between 2011 and 2015, the model year's first years on the road.
Adjusted for how many complaints NHTSA received about all 2012 vehicles, the 2012 Ford Flex drew 0.6× the complaints of the median Ford Flex year in the same window: 7th highest of the 11 ranked years.
The 64 complaints about the 2012 Ford Flex are unverified owner reports, and a model sold in large numbers collects more of them.
Ford Flex by model year
Other 2012 Ford models
Newest record on this page: December 30, 2025. Data: NHTSA recall and owner-complaint files. How these figures are counted