2015 Ford Expedition
This year drew an ordinary 164 complaints for a Ford Expedition — the model's median is 118. What they were about is the unusual part: 18.9% of them mention electrical, against 6.8% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 1 of the Ford Expedition, which began in 2007 and ran to 2017. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 164 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 118 |
| Involving a crash | 8 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 17.5 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- electrical — 18.9% of this year's complaints, against 6.8% across the other years of this generation (2.8×). Owners wrote it as: electrical, time recall, visibility, distribution.
- light came — 9.8% of this year's complaints, against 3.7% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: light came, shuts, shuts down, again happened.
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
notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V648000 (Visibility, Electrical System) however, the part to do the recall repair was unavailable. The contact stated that after activating the heater, there was a burning plastic odor coming from the front windshield v…
the front vents were not blowing air, but the rear vents were operable. The contact received notification of NHTSA Campaign Number: 22V648000 (Visibility, Electrical System) however, the part to do the recall repair was not yet available. The local dealer was…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 22V648000 VISIBILITY Fixed free of charge.
- 25V270000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 25V572000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Expedition 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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