Model years Ford Crown Victoria
2007 Ford Crown Victoria
This year drew an ordinary 50 complaints for a Ford Crown Victoria — the model's median is 50. What they were about is the unusual part: 10% of them mention hard, against 2.8% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 50 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 50 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- hard — 10% of this year's complaints, against 2.8% across the model's other years (3.6×). Owners wrote it as: hard, very hard.
- lower steering — 6% of this year's complaints, against 1.9% across the model's other years (3.1×).
- paint — 6% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (2.9×). Owners wrote it as: paint, chipping, residue, affecting.
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 PAINT STARTED CHIPPING ON THE VEHICLE AND THE RESIDUE FROM THE PAINT WAS AFFECTING THE VISIBILITY TO VIEW THE ROAD. THE VEHICLE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE [VIN] WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 65,000.
My 2007 Crown Victoria has had a worsening unintended acceleration issue over the past year. When hitting hard bumps the car will suddenly begin revving my itself (normal RPM is 600 idling in drive and 800 idling in neutral) when this issue occurs it will sit…
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.
- 06V440000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 07V183000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC 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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