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Utah vehicle complaints

5,961 NHTSA complaints filed by Utah drivers across 50 vehicle models, the models your neighbors flag most.

Complaints
5,961
Crashes
314
Models
50

Volume is not severity

According to NHTSA ODI filings attributed to Utah drivers, the FORD F-150 leads complaint volume at 332 (#1 of 50) but the TOYOTA CAMRY leads crash-linked reports at 18 (#1).

332
FORD F-150 complaints #1
18
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 LIGHT Crash-flag FLAG (5.3%)

Crash-flagged vs other filings

Utah filings in this extract split 5.3% crash-flagged (FLAG) versus other ODI rows, orthogonal to the make/model top-N bars below.

Utah vs all jurisdictions by NHTSA complaint volume

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

12,879 36th of 51 higher than 15 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

Utah has more filings than 15 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 Utah drivers. See our methodology.

Utah drivers have submitted 5,961 safety complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration across 50 distinct vehicle models. Those filings include 314 crash reports , 97 fire incidents , and 2 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 Utah

314
Crash reports
97
Fire incidents
2
Reported fatalities
Most complained make in Utah
FORD (1,736 complaints)

Most-complained vehicles in Utah

Ranked by NHTSA complaints filed by in-state owners

complaints

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

# Vehicle Complaints
1 FORD F-150 332
2 JEEP GRAND CHEROKEE 263
3 FORD EXPLORER 228
4 JEEP WRANGLER 215
5 DODGE DURANGO 206
6 FORD FOCUS 180
7 FORD ESCAPE 179
8 FORD F-350 159
9 SUBARU OUTBACK 157
10 HONDA ACCORD 157
11 CHEVROLET MALIBU 157
12 DODGE RAM 2500 156
13 DODGE GRAND CARAVAN 155
14 HYUNDAI SONATA 147
15 FORD FUSION 146
16 RAM 1500 139
17 JEEP CHEROKEE 130
18 HONDA CIVIC 123
19 FORD EDGE 121
20 VOLKSWAGEN JETTA 117
21 DODGE RAM 1500 115
22 FORD WINDSTAR 114
23 FORD TAURUS 109
24 TOYOTA PRIUS 102
25 HONDA ODYSSEY 100
26 CHEVROLET SILVERADO 1500 98
27 CHRYSLER TOWN AND COUNTRY 93
28 NISSAN ALTIMA 92
29 HYUNDAI ELANTRA 89
30 HONDA CR-V 89
31 TESLA MODEL 3 87
32 FORD EXPEDITION 86
33 HONDA PILOT 85
34 TOYOTA CAMRY 84
35 TESLA MODEL Y 83
36 FORD F-250 82
37 JEEP LIBERTY 75
38 TOYOTA RAV4 74
39 TOYOTA SIENNA 73
40 TOYOTA COROLLA 73
41 SUBARU FORESTER 72
42 NISSAN ROGUE 72
43 TOYOTA TACOMA 71
44 CHEVROLET SUBURBAN 71
45 HYUNDAI SANTA FE 70
46 NISSAN TITAN 69
47 VOLKSWAGEN PASSAT 68
48 CHEVROLET BLAZER 67
49 CHEVROLET TAHOE 66
50 TOYOTA TUNDRA 65

Nearest ODI volume peers

Closest owner-attributed complaint totals to Utah's 12,879 filings (LIGHT band) - NHTSA ODI volume stamps, not an alphabetical state strip.

West Virginia

13,816 · LIGHT · Δ937

New Hampshire

11,840 · LIGHT · Δ1,039

Iowa

14,831 · LIGHT · Δ1,952

New Mexico

10,743 · LIGHT · Δ2,136
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 Utah compares to the national picture

Utah sits #36 of 51 jurisdictions on owner-attributed ODI volume (LIGHT; 15 jurisdictions file fewer). Absolute counts track population and reporting culture more than per-vehicle defect rates, pair Utah's FLAG crash-flag share (5.3%) with model-level national rankings before treating a local leaderboard as a reliability verdict. Inside this extract the FORD F-150 leads Utah 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 Utah. A a Utah 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 Utah'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 Utah drivers (5,961 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.