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Maine vehicle complaints

5,291 NHTSA complaints filed by Maine drivers across 50 vehicle models, the models your neighbors flag most.

Complaints
5,291
Crashes
254
Models
50

Volume is not severity

According to NHTSA ODI filings attributed to Maine drivers, the FORD F-150 leads both complaint volume and crash-linked reports at 307 complaints and 17 crash reports (#1 each), but the JEEP WRANGLER leads reported fatalities at 6 (#1).

307
FORD F-150 complaints #1
17
FORD F-150 crashes #1
6
JEEP WRANGLER deaths #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 LIGHT Crash-flag FLAG (4.8%)

Crash-flagged vs other filings

Maine filings in this extract split 4.8% crash-flagged (FLAG) versus other ODI rows, orthogonal to the make/model top-N bars below.

Maine vs all jurisdictions by NHTSA complaint volume

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

10,324 39th of 51 higher than 12 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

Maine has more filings than 12 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 Maine drivers. See our methodology.

Maine drivers have submitted 5,291 safety complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration across 50 distinct vehicle models. Those filings include 254 crash reports , 101 fire incidents , and 11 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 Maine

254
Crash reports
101
Fire incidents
11
Reported fatalities
Most complained make in Maine
FORD (1,467 complaints)

Most-complained vehicles in Maine

Ranked by NHTSA complaints filed by in-state owners

complaints

What this shows The FORD F-150 draws the most NHTSA complaints from Maine 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 Maine

# Vehicle Complaints
1 FORD F-150 307
2 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 218
3 FORD FOCUS 208
4 FORD EXPLORER 187
5 FORD ESCAPE 186
6 TOYOTA TUNDRA 177
7 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 177
8 FORD TAURUS 171
9 TOYOTA TACOMA 144
10 CHEVROLET MALIBU 136
11 SUBARU OUTBACK 129
12 GMC SIERRA 1500 123
13 FORD WINDSTAR 123
14 FORD FUSION 116
15 CHEVROLET IMPALA 113
16 JEEP CHEROKEE 112
17 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN 112
18 HONDA CR-V 108
19 JEEP WRANGLER 107
20 FORD RANGER 105
21 TOYOTA 4RUNNER 100
22 DODGE DURANGO 98
23 KIA SORENTO 97
24 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY 93
25 TOYOTA RAV4 92
26 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 92
27 GMC SIERRA 91
28 TOYOTA PRIUS 85
29 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 84
30 TOYOTA CAMRY 84
31 HYUNDAI SONATA 79
32 SUBARU FORESTER 77
33 DODGE DAKOTA 77
34 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 76
35 CHEVROLET BLAZER 76
36 RAM 1500 75
37 HONDA ACCORD 74
38 CHRYSLER PACIFICA 73
39 JEEP LIBERTY 67
40 DODGE CARAVAN 65
41 TOYOTA COROLLA 64
42 FORD EDGE 64
43 DODGE RAM 1500 61
44 NISSAN ROGUE 59
45 CHEVROLET EQUINOX 59
46 KIA SPORTAGE 57
47 SUBARU LEGACY 56
48 NISSAN PATHFINDER 55
49 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 51
50 TOYOTA SIENNA 51

Nearest ODI volume peers

Closest owner-attributed complaint totals to Maine's 10,324 filings (LIGHT band) - NHTSA ODI volume stamps, not an alphabetical state strip.

New Mexico

10,743 · LIGHT · Δ419

New Hampshire

11,840 · LIGHT · Δ1,516

Nebraska

8,698 · LIGHT · Δ1,626

Delaware

7,850 · LIGHT · Δ2,474
Compare FORD F-150 vs JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE →

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 Maine compares to the national picture

Maine sits #39 of 51 jurisdictions on owner-attributed ODI volume (LIGHT; 12 jurisdictions file fewer). Absolute counts track population and reporting culture more than per-vehicle defect rates, pair Maine's FLAG crash-flag share (4.8%) with model-level national rankings before treating a local leaderboard as a reliability verdict. Inside this extract the FORD F-150 leads Maine 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 Maine. A a Maine 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 Maine's LIGHT 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 Maine drivers (5,291 filings across 50 models; vintage August 2026; LIGHT/FLAG). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.