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Model years to avoid

Ford Expedition

What it says about you

Opinion

Enormous, comfortable, and bought because the third row actually has to work. It does.

Not measured, not from the data, and offered in fun. Everything below this is not.

23 model years on record, 3,938 complaints filed.

The years to look at closely: 2020 (transmission), 2019 (cam), 2018 (cam), 2017 (camera), 2006 (fail safe), 2005 (throttle). Everything else drew a normal number of complaints for this model.

What owners report, and when

Faults that dominated the complaints of more than one model year. Not the same question as which year to avoid — a car can have an ordinary number of complaints every year and have most of them be about the same thing.

  • transmission 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 peak 33.9% of that year's complaints
  • camera 2016, 2017 peak 28.2% of that year's complaints
  • pedal 2007, 2008, 2016 peak 22.1% of that year's complaints
  • far 2010, 2011 peak 20.7% of that year's complaints
  • hard 2020, 2021 peak 19.5% of that year's complaints
  • local dealer 2015, 2017 peak 18.9% of that year's complaints
  • downshift 2013, 2014 peak 17.4% of that year's complaints
  • fuel 2007, 2022 peak 16.7% of that year's complaints

Every year

  1. 2027 1 recall 0 complaints
  2. 2026 1 recall 8 complaints
  3. 2025 5 recalls 29 complaints
  4. 2024 7 recalls 71 complaints
  5. 2023 8 recalls 64 complaints
  6. 2022 12 recalls 109 complaints
  7. 2021 12 recalls 227 complaints
  8. 2020 transmission 384 complaints
  9. 2019 cam 475 complaints
  10. 2018 cam 369 complaints
  11. 2017 camera 354 complaints
  12. 2016 3 recalls 213 complaints
  13. 2015 3 recalls 164 complaints
  14. 2014 0 recalls 71 complaints
  15. 2013 0 recalls 92 complaints
  16. 2012 3 recalls 118 complaints
  17. 2011 0 recalls 71 complaints
  18. 2010 0 recalls 116 complaints
  19. 2009 1 recall 28 complaints
  20. 2008 4 recalls 146 complaints
  21. 2007 2 recalls 215 complaints
  22. 2006 fail safe 299 complaints
  23. 2005 throttle 315 complaints

What does a Ford Expedition say about you?

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Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints — compared against itself rather than against other cars, so popularity and age do not decide the answer.