2002 Ford E550 Problems
Owner-reported complaints filed with NHTSA, grouped by component
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What this page shows
Everything below is an owner-reported complaint submitted to NHTSA about the 2002 Ford E550, grouped by the component NHTSA recorded on the report. These are not confirmed defects, and they are not recalls. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a category with more reports in it is not evidence that a part is defective.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Reports by component
Ranked by how many owner reports name each component category
- Engine1100.0%
Percentages are of component mentions. A single complaint can name more than one component, so these do not sum to the total complaint count.
Each component in detail
What the reports in each category say, in the owners' own words
Engine
Reports naming the engine itself — including stalling, misfires, oil consumption, cooling and internal engine components.
From owner reports, verbatim
PURCHASED A USED FORD 550 DIESEL BUCKET TRUCK, IN NOV. 2007 TWO WEEKS AFTER TRUCK STARTED TO NOT START AT TIMES AND WOULD STALL WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD. WE DROVE IT TO THE DEALERSHIP AND HAD IT TOWED IN SEVERAL TIMES, DEALERSHIP WOULD SEND TRUCK BACK TO US AND IT WOULD AGAIN STALL ON THE ROAD, AFTER THIS HAPPENED TWO TIMES IN A ROW AND IT WAS BACK AT DEALERSHIP WHEN THEY TOLD US AGAIN NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. WE TOLD THEM TO TAKE IT HOME FOR THE NIGHT. THEY DID AND OF COURSE IT STALLED ON THE ROAD. THEY THEN STARTED TO BREAK DOWN THE ENGINE TO FIND WHAT WAS WRONG. THEY THOUGHT THAT THE INJECTORS AFTER BEING TAKEN OUT AND TESTED WERE NOT IN THAT GOOD OF CONDITION AND THAT THEY WERE THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM AND SHOULD BE CHANGED. WE HAD THEM CHANGE 7 OF 8 INJECTORS ALSO CALLED GLOW PLUGS. THIS CAME TO ABOUT $4000 SAME PROBLEM DIFFERENT STATE TRUCK WENT TO NEW DEALER SHIP WAS TOLD NOTHING WRONG WITH IT. PICKED IT UP AND DROVE IT AND OF COURSE IT STALLED ON THE ROAD AGAIN IT WAS TOWED IN AND THEY SAID IT HAD TO BE WIRING AND SINCE IT WOULD TAKE TO LONG TO LOOK OVER ALL THE WIRING AND WITH THE SYMPTOMS THE WIRES WERE BAD SO WE NEEDED A NEW WIRING HARNESS. WE HAD THEM PUT IT IN. THIS WAS ABOUT $ 2700 WE PICKED UP THE TRUCK AND TRUCK STALLED ON THE HIGHWAY AND WAS NOT OFF THE ROAD THIS TIME, WE HAD IT TOWED BACK TO THE DEALERSHIP AGAIN. THEY AGAIN SAID THEY HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE TRUCK BUT IT MUST BE WIRING SO THE WIRING COMING OUT OF THE FUSE BOX, WAS CHANGED NOT SURE WHAT THE NAME IS NOW. ABOUT $900 TRUCK WAS SERVICED AGAIN IN ANOTHER STATE AT ANOTHER DEALERSHIP ABOUT 4000 ANOTHER STATE AND TRUCK WAS IN DEALERSHIP AGAIN. THEY FOUND PROBLEMS WITH THE GLOW PLUGS, AND WE WERE TOLD FIRST DEALERSHIP WAS AT FAULT. $1900 BACK HOME AGAIN AND TRUCK IS STILL STALLING SO I LOOKED UP ON WEB TRUCK NOT STARTING AND STALLING AND THIS CAME UP. I CANNOT NOT TELL YOU UPSET WE ARE AT THIS WE ARE OUT 13,500 AND IT MAY HAVE BEEN A BAD CPS WE ARE BANKRUPT. *TR
Too few reports in this category for a page of its own — they appear in the full complaint list.
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
Elsewhere on this vehicle
Data sources
- NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation — owner-reported complaints and the components recorded on them
Data on this page last refreshed .