2018 Ford Explorer
This year drew 719 complaints against a median of 416 across the Ford Explorer's other years, 1.7× that median. No single fault was reported unusually often, and it did not reach the 2.5× threshold this site flags at. It has 7 recalls, listed below.
Generation 2 of the Ford Explorer, which began in 2011 and ran to 2019. 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 | 719 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 416 |
| Involving a crash | 14 |
| Involving a fire | 7 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 20 mpg |
Recalls for this year
- 19V633000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
- 18V807000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 21V316000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 24V031000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
- 25V685000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 26V101000 SUSPENSION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V448000 STRUCTURE Fixed free of charge.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Ford Explorer 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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