2008 Ford Expedition
This year drew an ordinary 146 complaints for a Ford Expedition — the model's median is 118. What they were about is the unusual part: 21.9% of them mention brakes, against 5.9% 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 | 146 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 118 |
| Involving a crash | 24 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 4 |
| EPA combined | 14 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brakes — 21.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.9% across the other years of this generation (3.7×).
- pedal — 17.1% of this year's complaints, against 4.2% across the other years of this generation (4.1×).
- window — 18.5% of this year's complaints, against 7% across the other years of this generation (2.6×). Owners wrote it as: window, windows, weather, roll.
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
DURING INCLEMENT WEATHER THE DRIVERS SIDE WINDOW WILL NOT ROLL DOWN. HOWEVER, THE OTHER WINDOWS IN THE VEHICLE WORK. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 35,800. THE VEHICLE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER WAS UNAVAILABLE.
MY DRIVERS SIDE WINDOW DOESN'T GO UP OR DOWN .ALSO MY PASSENGER WINDOW IS DOING THE SAME THING.I SEE THERE WAS A RECALL FOR WINDOW REGULATORS FOR MY TRUCK.WILL I BE ABLE TO GET IT RECALLED?
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 08V166000 TIRES
- 08V058000 LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES
- 07E105000 SERVICE BRAKES, AIR
- 07V541000 AIR BAGS 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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