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Trending complaint activity

Two views of the same underlying records, kept separate on purpose. Ranking by recent volume tells you where reports are arriving in bulk; ranking by rate tells you where something has changed. A vehicle can top one list and be absent from the other.

Complaints are reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers. NHTSA does not verify most reports before publishing them, and a complaint does not establish that a defect exists. Volume is influenced by how many of a vehicle were sold, how long it has been on the road, and how much attention an issue has received.

Highest recent complaint volume (90 days)

Ranked by the number of complaints filed with NHTSA in the last 90 days

This list is dominated by high-volume models, because a vehicle that sold in the hundreds of thousands generates more reports than one that sold in the thousands even when both behave identically. Read it as “what is being reported most”. It is not a quality ranking, and a higher position does not mean a vehicle is more likely to develop a fault than one below it.

2025 Honda Odyssey

165

complaints in 90 days

379 total · 49 in 30 days

2018 RAM 2500

112

complaints in 90 days

2,590 total · 30 in 30 days

2018 Honda Accord

105

complaints in 90 days

1,883 total · 23 in 30 days

2016 Ford Escape

103

complaints in 90 days

1,123 total · 24 in 30 days

2026 Tesla Model Y

99

complaints in 90 days

370 total · 41 in 30 days

2018 Ford F-150

98

complaints in 90 days

2,308 total · 27 in 30 days

2024 Jeep Wrangler

93

complaints in 90 days

725 total · 46 in 30 days

2019 Honda Odyssey

93

complaints in 90 days

966 total · 30 in 30 days

2021 Ford F-150

84

complaints in 90 days

1,012 total · 18 in 30 days

2018 Ford Escape

83

complaints in 90 days

1,797 total · 20 in 30 days

2015 Ford F-150

83

complaints in 90 days

1,710 total · 19 in 30 days

2016 Ford F-150

80

complaints in 90 days

2,053 total · 23 in 30 days

2023 Tesla Model Y

78

complaints in 90 days

1,163 total · 26 in 30 days

2017 Ford Escape

78

complaints in 90 days

2,684 total · 19 in 30 days

2023 GMC Sierra 1500

75

complaints in 90 days

479 total · 32 in 30 days

2015 Ford Escape

75

complaints in 90 days

1,100 total · 23 in 30 days

2021 Chevrolet Silverado 1500

72

complaints in 90 days

825 total · 30 in 30 days

2023 Nissan Rogue

72

complaints in 90 days

716 total · 21 in 30 days

2020 Ford Explorer

72

complaints in 90 days

1,218 total · 18 in 30 days

2022 Chevrolet Silverado 1500

69

complaints in 90 days

630 total · 24 in 30 days

2018 Honda CR-V

69

complaints in 90 days

2,141 total · 16 in 30 days

2017 Ford Edge

68

complaints in 90 days

1,357 total · 42 in 30 days

2025 RAM 1500

68

complaints in 90 days

351 total · 24 in 30 days

2017 Ford F-150

68

complaints in 90 days

1,437 total · 18 in 30 days

Rising relative to their own history

Ranked by recent complaints as a share of each vehicle's lifetime total

This list controls for the popularity effect above by comparing each vehicle only with itself: the score is its 30-day count divided by every complaint it has ever received. A vehicle needs at least 15 lifetime complaints and 3 in the last 30 days to appear, so a model going from one report to four cannot top it on noise alone.

Go deeper

The same activity viewed by component category and by model year

Which issue categories are moving

The same reports grouped by the component NHTSA recorded, so you can see whether activity is concentrated in one system or spread across many.

Complaint categories

Most-reported vehicles by model year

Lifetime complaint counts ranked inside a single model year, which is the only way that comparison controls for how long a vehicle has been on the road.

Most-reported vehicles

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.

Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.