8.0

pretty bad
Typical Repair Cost:
No data
Average Mileage:
97,450 miles
Total Complaints:
3 complaints

Most Common Solutions:

  1. need to get ford to repaint the hood (2 reports)
  2. not sure (1 reports)
2005 Ford Five Hundred body / paint problems

body / paint problem

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2005 Ford Five Hundred Owner Comments

problem #3

Jul 012017

Five Hundred Limited 3.0L

  • CVT transmission
  • 141,000 miles

A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

Galvanic Corrosion. Aluminum hood corrosion. Paint is bubbling and peeling due to the aluminum hood having galvanic corrosion.

- Steve S., Ann Arbor, MI, US

problem #2

Oct 252011

Five Hundred SE V6

  • CVT transmission
  • 52,361 miles

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clearcoat peeling off hood clearcoat peeling off hood

I have been back and forth with Ford Corp, Dealership since 2011. Ford Dealership took photos. don't know what happened to them. Can only guess. Contacted Ford's CEO and Board; Contacted NJ Attorney General Office, Consumer Affairs Div., who sent to NHSTA. Contacted FTC who can do nothing as they say. Used up everyone I know. Dealer tells to me to keep with Ford Motor Corp and Ford Motor Corp tells me to keep in contact with dealer with the problem. Now I am getting ready for last draw with NJ Small Claims court.

Afraid to take my car through the car wash as the bubbling may turn into the paint peeling which it has started already. Anyone form NJ who has been through NJ Small claims already and won, please contact me about some pointers and all. Thanks.

- Robert C., Edison, NJ, US

problem #1

Jan 182012

Five Hundred LX V6

  • CVT transmission
  • 98,980 miles

My paint coating just started peeling off and blowing off of my car. It was and is embarrassing. We went to the dealer but they would not do anything to help us get it fixed. I have filed a complaint with the Ford Company online. This is the second car in my life to have paint peel with both cars being made by American car companies. I have never had a car manufactured by an automobile company outside the US to peel at all. Like my economic's professor said once I will buy an American made car when they can make them as good as the foreign car companies do. I have given them a chance twice and each time the car paint peeled.

- Gloria C., Asheville, NC, US

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