Model years Ford Crown Victoria
2005 Ford Crown Victoria
Complaints about this year name headlights far more often than the model's other years — 37% of them, about 19× the usual rate of 1.9%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 193 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 50 |
| Involving a crash | 13 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 6 |
| EPA combined | 17.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- headlights — 36.8% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (18.9×).
- lcm — 11.9% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (59.6×). Owners wrote it as: lcm, relay, came back, ford says.
- module — 28% of this year's complaints, against 7% across the model's other years (4×). Owners wrote it as: module, control module, lighting control, light control.
Words owners used for the same problem are counted together, so a fault written four different ways is measured once. Grouped by which complaints they appear in, not by a list anyone wrote in advance.
Also unusual this year
- control module — 22% of complaints, 54× usual
- lighting — 19% of complaints, 47× usual
- control — 32% of complaints, 3× usual
What owners wrote
WHILE DRIVING 30 MPH, THE HEADLIGHTS FAILED. THE VEHICLE WAS DIAGNOSED BY A MEMBER OF THE FAMILY AS HAVING A FAULTY LIGHTING CONTROL MODULE. THE VEHICLE HAD NOT BEEN REPAIRED. THE FAILURE AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 147,000.
THE HEADLIGHTS WOULD CONTINUALLY FAIL. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO THE DEALER WHO STATED THAT THE LIGHTING CONTROL MODULE WOULD NEED TO BE REPLACED. THERE WERE NO RECALLS FOR THE FAILURE. THE [VIN] WAS NOT CONTACTED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 130,000.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 15V861000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 14V704000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 13V385000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 06E056000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 05V518000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- 05V206000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Crown Victoria was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.
This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.
Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.
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