2022 Ford Mustang Reliability Report

Sudden acceleration at low speed is the main pattern. It usually happens in parking lots, drive-thrus, or while backing up. Many reports blame a cruise control button so sensitive that a palm brushing it engages cruise, and the car surges toward a high set speed. Some say cruise switched on by itself. Three reports involve crashes, one with a concussion after the accelerator stuck. Others describe hands-free driving drifting across lane lines, front camera faults that disable cruise, and a software update that moved the speedometer out of easy view.

The car pulls on its own or stops responding to the wheel. Lane-keeping and hands-free modes drift toward lane lines or curbs, sometimes swinging left and right, and one of these pulls ended in a rollover. Other reports describe power assist cutting out with a dash full of fault codes and a wheel that seizes and becomes hard to turn. Some describe losing both steering and braking at highway speed. Four complaints involve crashes, and four people were injured. Several owners waited on a steering recall repair because parts were not available.

Front camera failures knock out automatic emergency braking, lane keeping, and both adaptive and regular cruise control. The fault often starts out intermittent and becomes permanent. Some reports link it to windshield replacement disturbing the camera connection. When the systems do work, drivers describe false braking for misidentified objects and adaptive cruise speeding up after a software update when the brake is tapped. Others report a sudden jerk of the wheel toward oncoming traffic and a set-speed display that lags by several seconds. No crashes are reported.

Pad material fuses to the rotors on the Mach-E because one-pedal driving leaves the friction brakes mostly unused. Drivers hear a clunk or a repeating noise from a rear wheel, or feel shaking through the car and steering wheel, starting around 18,000 miles. Rotors get resurfaced and then replaced, and warranty claims are denied past the brake coverage mileage. Other reports cover a failed rear electronic parking brake harness, a hard pedal from a failed brake booster, and a soft pedal that travels far before braking.

Doors and roofs cause most of these reports. A passenger door opens on its own at 45 to 65 mph, several times in a single drive. Convertible tops need excessive force to operate or fail to latch, and dealers could not find a fix. Glass roofs crack without any impact the owner noticed, including a second crack after an insurance repair. The frunk can also trigger an open-hood warning while driving when loose cargo slides into its emergency release button.

Almost every report here involves a fuel system recall on gas Mustangs with no repair parts available. Dealers confirm the shortage, and some owners park the car rather than drive it with the recall open. One complaint describes a loss of power at about 65 mph with no warning light, after which the car restarted. The other three owners had no failure. Electrical complaints tie this recall to a low-pressure fuel pump that can stall the engine while driving.

Weak damping lets the Mach-E go briefly airborne over highway dips at 55 mph or bounce hard enough that the rear nearly steps out on a bumpy curve. Two complaints describe this. Another reports a popping sound from the right front starting at 5400 miles. It was traced to separation at a pinched weld, which a Ford engineer confirmed after repeated dealer visits. The fourth complaint is only a list of recall numbers and describes no failure.