Model years Ford Crown Victoria
2006 Ford Crown Victoria
This year drew an ordinary 53 complaints for a Ford Crown Victoria — the model's median is 50. What they were about is the unusual part: 18.9% of them mention pedal, against 6.3% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 53 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 50 |
| Involving a crash | 10 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pedal — 18.9% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (3×).
- addition — 9.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.4% across the model's other years (3.9×). Owners wrote it as: addition, regarding.
- paint — 11.3% of this year's complaints, against 4.3% across the model's other years (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: paint, window, now noticed, hood.
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.
What owners wrote
THE VEHICLE REVVED UP TO 5,000 RPMS WHEN THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED. THE FAILURE OCCURRED RANDOMLY. IN ADDITION, THE REAR WHEELS SPUN WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS IDLING AT A TRAFFIC LIGHT. THE VEHICLE WAS HELD BY THE DEALER FOR THREE MONTHS AND THE DEALER W…
ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS WHILE SHE OR HER SISTER WAS DRIVING AT VARIOUS SPEEDS, THE BRAKE PEDAL WAS DEPRESSED AND IT TRAVELLED TO THE FLOORBOARD AS THE VEHICLE FAILED TO STOP. THE CONTACT STATED THAT SHE WOULD HAVE TO PUMP THE BRAKE PEDAL SEVERAL TIMES IN ORDER FO…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 14V704000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 13V385000 STEERING Fixed free of charge.
- 06E056000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE 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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