Model years Ford Crown Victoria
2008 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: 20% of them mention pedal, against 6.3% 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 | 11 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- pedal — 20% of this year's complaints, against 6.3% across the model's other years (3.2×).
- defective — 10% of this year's complaints, against 3% across the model's other years (3.3×). Owners wrote it as: defective, level, cluster, illuminate.
- throttle — 6% of this year's complaints, against 2.3% across the model's other years (2.7×).
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
WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL BECAME STUCK ON THE FLOORBOARD WHEN IT WAS DEPRESS. THE CONTACT MENTIONED THAT THE FAILURE RECURRED MULTIPLE TIMES. THE VEHICLE WAS TAKEN TO AN INDEPENDENT MECHANIC WHO DIAGNOSED THAT THE THROTTLE BODY WAS DEFECTIVE A…
I WAS GOING DOWN THE ROAD AND MY GAS PEDAL STUCK TO FLOOR TURNED KEY OFF AND HIT BRAKES FELT LIKE PEDAL WANTED TO STAY DOWN.CITY STREET.
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.
- 07V270000 SUSPENSION 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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