The 2013 Ford Fiesta has 667 owner-filed NHTSA complaints and 3 recalls on record. The most-reported areas are power train and engine. Owners most often flag powershift automatic transmission shuddering, jerking, and hesitation at low speeds: frequency: very frequent.
Source: NHTSA complaints and recalls filed for 2013 Ford Fiesta vehicles (US, public record).
Across the 9 Fiesta model years we track, complaint volume runs from 1 (2002) to 729 (2011). With 667 complaints, the 2013 Fiesta sits abovethe model's median of 92.
These are raw NHTSA complaint totals, not adjusted for how many cars sold or how long each model year has been on the road. Older and higher-selling years accumulate more complaints.
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Campaign 15V246000Ford Motor Company (Ford) notified the agency on April 23, 2015, that they are recalling certain model year 2013-2014 Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ vehicles manufactured July 1, 2012, to May 31, 2013, and 2012-2014 Fiesta …
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Campaign 12V488000Ford is recalling certain model year 2011-2013 Fiesta vehicles, manufactured from November 3, 2009 through September 21, 2012. The vehicles fail to comply with Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) No. 208, "Occu…
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Campaign 20V331000Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2011-2014 Fiesta, 2013-2014 Fusion, 2015 Mustang, 2013-2015 Escape and C-Max, 2012-2015 Focus, 2014-2016 Transit Connect, 2013-2014 Lincoln MKZ, and 2015 MKC vehicles. These…
Owners overwhelmingly describe the automatic PowerShift dual-clutch transmission as the defining flaw of this generation, with shuddering, jerking, and hesitation at low speeds being very frequent complaints. The manual transmission versions are praised as rel
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Used Fiesta listings typically run $7,150–$10,189 across 2011 to 2019 model years.
Compare every Fiesta year side by side to see how 2013 ranks against the rest.