2024 Ford Expedition
This year drew an ordinary 71 complaints for a Ford Expedition — the model's median is 146. What they were about is the unusual part: 23.9% of them mention brand, against 5.9% across the other years of this generation.
Generation 2 of the Ford Expedition, which began in 2018. 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 | 71 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 146 |
| Involving a crash | 6 |
| Involving a fire | 1 |
| Recalls | 7 |
| NHTSA crash rating | 5/5 |
| EPA combined | 18 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- brand — 23.9% of this year's complaints, against 5.9% across the other years of this generation (4.1×). Owners wrote it as: brand, brand new, department, service department.
- new — 23.9% of this year's complaints, against 7.9% across the other years of this generation (3×).
- fix — 21.1% of this year's complaints, against 6.1% across the other years of this generation (3.5×).
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
Two issues with a brand new vehicle that is in the service department and they are unable to diagnose the issue. The major concern is regarding the braking system. While in a parking lot driving slowly (5-10 mph) the brakes suddenly locked up and the vehicle c…
Brand new 2024 ford expedition bought on 12/18/2024, came with a hairline crack on the transmission housing. Only leaked while driving at operating temperature. First noticed leak at 1600 miles transmission started operating faulty shortly there after. Could h…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 24V851000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 24V852000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
- 25V198000 ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING Fixed free of charge.
- 25V314000 SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC Fixed free of charge.
- 25V315000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
- 26V104000 ELECTRICAL SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
- 26V368000 STRUCTURE 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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