2005 Ford Expedition
Complaints about this year name throttle far more often than the model's other years — 45% of them, about 23× the usual rate of 1.9%.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 315 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 118 |
| Involving a crash | 20 |
| Involving a fire | 6 |
| Recalls | 5 |
| EPA combined | 14 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- throttle — 45.4% of this year's complaints, against 2.6% across the model's other years (17.7×).
- electronic — 32.4% of this year's complaints, against 5.3% across the model's other years (6.2×). Owners wrote it as: electronic, electronic throttle, check electronic, particular.
- control — 33.7% of this year's complaints, against 10.8% across the model's other years (3.1×).
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.
Also unusual this year
- electronic throttle — 31% of complaints, 77× usual
- throttle control — 27% of complaints, 67× usual
- check electronic — 20% of complaints, 50× usual
What owners wrote
WHILE TRAVELING 45 MPH HE CONTACT NOTICED THAT THE CHECK ELECTRONIC THROTTLE CONTROL LIGHT HAD APPEARED ON THE INSTRUMENT PANEL , SECONDS LATER THE VEHICLE HAD SUDDENLY SHUT OFF. THE VEHICLE WAS RESTARTED AND TAKEN TO THE DEALERSHIP WHERE THE THROTTLE BODY WAS…
WHILE DRIVING 25 MPH THE CHECK ELECTRONIC THROTTLE CONTROL WARNING LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE INSTRUMENT CONTROL PANEL, AND THEN THE VEHICLE STALLED. HE WAS ABLE TO SAFELY RESTART THE VEHICLE TO RESUME NORMAL VEHICLE OPERATION. THE DEALER WAS NOTIFIED, AND A TEC…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 06E064000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING Fixed free of charge.
- 09E012000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 06E056000 FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE Fixed free of charge.
- 06E026000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING
- 06E023000 EXTERIOR LIGHTING 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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