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Louisiana vehicle complaints

12,990 NHTSA complaints filed by Louisiana drivers across 50 vehicle models, the models your neighbors flag most.

Complaints
12,990
Crashes
873
Models
50

Volume is not severity

According to NHTSA ODI filings attributed to Louisiana drivers, the FORD F-150 leads complaint volume at 872 (#1 of 50) but the TOYOTA CAMRY leads crash-linked reports at 69 (#1).

872
FORD F-150 complaints #1
69
TOYOTA CAMRY crashes #1

Counts sum NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation complaints self-reported by owners in this state. Crash and fatality flags come from those filings, not a separate crash registry.

ODI volume FULL Crash-flag FLAG (6.7%)

Crash-flagged vs other filings

Louisiana filings in this extract split 6.7% crash-flagged (FLAG) versus other ODI rows, orthogonal to the make/model top-N bars below.

Louisiana vs all jurisdictions by NHTSA complaint volume

Where this state's owner-attributed ODI complaint count sits among every state and DC on PlainCars

26,235 27th of 51 higher than 24 of 51 jurisdictions

States and DC, banded by owner-attributed NHTSA ODI complaint count

Each bar is a band; taller bars hold more jurisdictions. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count and share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source NHTSA ODI owner-reported state field · 2026-08-08

Louisiana has more filings than 24 of 51 jurisdictions in this extract. Absolute volume tracks population and reporting culture; it is not a per-vehicle defect rate.

Data updated August 2026. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), more than 2,000,000 owner filings sit in the national ODI file; this page counts the subset attributed to Louisiana drivers. See our methodology.

Louisiana drivers have submitted 12,990 safety complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration across 50 distinct vehicle models. Those filings include 873 crash reports , 348 fire incidents , and 36 reported fatalities , each self-reported through NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation intake form.

State is geocoded from the owner's self-reported ZIP. The table below ranks models by complaint count; crash, fire, and death columns isolate filings that reported a serious outcome.

Severe outcomes reported in Louisiana

873
Crash reports
348
Fire incidents
36
Reported fatalities
Most complained make in Louisiana
FORD (3,643 complaints)

Most-complained vehicles in Louisiana

Ranked by NHTSA complaints filed by in-state owners

complaints

What this shows The FORD F-150 draws the most NHTSA complaints from Louisiana drivers. State-level volume reflects how common a model is locally as much as its defect rate.

Source NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation As of 2026

Full ranking: top 50 most-complained vehicles in Louisiana

# Vehicle Complaints
1 FORD F-150 872
2 FORD EXPLORER 575
3 CHEVROLET MALIBU 523
4 HONDA ACCORD 487
5 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 486
6 TOYOTA CAMRY 407
7 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 407
8 FORD FUSION 391
9 NISSAN ALTIMA 380
10 FORD FOCUS 338
11 DODGE RAM 1500 333
12 FORD ESCAPE 321
13 GMC SIERRA 1500 317
14 CHEVROLET TAHOE 308
15 RAM 1500 276
16 FORD F-250 276
17 JEEP WRANGLER 253
18 JEEP CHEROKEE 252
19 HYUNDAI SONATA 246
20 FORD TAURUS 245
21 FORD EXPEDITION 245
22 DODGE DURANGO 245
23 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 218
24 HONDA CIVIC 210
25 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 210
26 FORD MUSTANG 205
27 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN 197
28 KIA SORENTO 193
29 HONDA CR-V 189
30 GMC YUKON 189
31 DODGE CHARGER 187
32 TOYOTA COROLLA 185
33 TOYOTA TUNDRA 182
34 NISSAN PATHFINDER 180
35 HONDA ODYSSEY 176
36 FORD EDGE 175
37 CHEVROLET IMPALA 175
38 DODGE CARAVAN 173
39 KIA OPTIMA 168
40 RAM 2500 164
41 GMC ACADIA 160
42 JEEP LIBERTY 151
43 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY 150
44 NISSAN MAXIMA 148
45 HONDA PILOT 146
46 DODGE JOURNEY 141
47 CHEVROLET EQUINOX 139
48 CHEVROLET TRAILBLAZER 137
49 NISSAN SENTRA 133
50 CHEVROLET COBALT 126

Nearest ODI volume peers

Closest owner-attributed complaint totals to Louisiana's 26,235 filings (FULL band) - NHTSA ODI volume stamps, not an alphabetical state strip.

Kentucky

27,522 · FULL · Δ1,287

Connecticut

27,585 · FULL · Δ1,350

Minnesota

29,842 · FULL · Δ3,607

Alabama

29,885 · FULL · Δ3,650
Compare FORD F-150 vs FORD EXPLORER →

Sources: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) complaints database, with fatality-linked filings cross-checked against NHTSA FARS and crash-test ratings drawn from NHTSA NCAP. State is self-reported by the vehicle owner.

How Louisiana compares to the national picture

Louisiana sits #27 of 51 jurisdictions on owner-attributed ODI volume (FULL; 24 jurisdictions file fewer). Absolute counts track population and reporting culture more than per-vehicle defect rates, pair Louisiana's FLAG crash-flag share (6.7%) with model-level national rankings before treating a local leaderboard as a reliability verdict. Inside this extract the FORD F-150 leads Louisiana volume; check whether that nameplate's local share exceeds its national share before calling a regional pattern.

A note on self-reported state data

The state field on each NHTSA complaint is supplied by the consumer at filing, there is no mandatory check that the owner filed from their registration state, nor that the incident occurred in Louisiana. A a Louisiana resident reporting a purchase made elsewhere still tags here; a visitor who filed from another home state will not. NHTSA does not deduplicate by VIN across years, so multi-year filings from the same vehicle accumulate. Treat Louisiana's FULL ranking as directional and open the model pages linked above.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCars is rendered directly from NHTSA complaint and safety data, no number is typed in by an editor. State totals sum NHTSA ODI complaints attributed to Louisiana drivers (12,990 filings across 50 models; vintage August 2026; FULL/FLAG). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.