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all vehicles · every Expedition year · method

Ford Expedition 2018

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.99 per 1,000

1.5 times this nameplate’s own median · from 53 complaints filed in the first three years, of 380 ever. 95% lower bound 0.73.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model yearPer 1,000Complaints
20080.6536
20090.167
20100.6723
20110.5622
20120.3614
20130.4216
20140.146
20150.8838
20160.7337
20170.7341
20180.9953
20190.3827
20200.5142
20211.0685
20220.6849
20230.7148

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Power Train 148 complaints

cam1611%
drum118%
cam phaser107%
phaser107%
phasers107%
lamps107%

Engine 100 complaints

cam5756%
phasers3737%
cam phasers3434%
phaser3030%
cam phaser2828%
diagnosed cam1111%

When it breaks

30% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 54,736 miles, from 129 complaints that recorded one).

No clear early or late pattern.

What NHTSA did

1 investigation covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 53 complaints about this component over roughly 15 months before an investigation opened.

Seat Belt Retractor Pretensioner Inadvertent Deployment

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

11093148 · 11109448 · 11115787 · 11118957 · 11121769 · 11122445

Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.