2005 Lincoln Navigator
This year drew an ordinary 48 complaints for a Lincoln Navigator — the model's median is 25. What they were about is the unusual part: 10.4% of them mention weather, against 2% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 48 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 25 |
| Involving a crash | 4 |
| Involving a fire | 2 |
| Recalls | 0 |
| EPA combined | 13 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- weather — 10.4% of this year's complaints, against 2% across the model's other years (5.3×). Owners wrote it as: weather, didnt, found out.
- serviced — 6.3% of this year's complaints, against 0.8% across the model's other years (7.4×). Owners wrote it as: serviced, rotors, persists, car continues.
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
THERE WASNT A RECALL ON MY AIRBAGS PER MY VIN NUMBER HOWEVER JUST [VIN] VEHICLE WAS TOTALED DUE TO BRAKE FAILURE WHICH UPON IMPACT ONLY THE PASSENGER SIDE AIRBAG DEPLOYED WHILE THE DRIVER SIDE DIDNT. THERE WAS NO PASSENGER...
AS I WAS MERGING ON FREEWAY, I EXPERIENCED SUDDEN LOSS OF POWER AND IT COULD HAVE RESULTED IN FATALITIES SINCE IT WAS AT RUSH HOUR. AS I PULLED OVER, THE ENGINE WAS BUCKING BUT REGAINED POWER WITH SPORADIC BOUTS OF LOSS DURING MY DRIVE HOME. THERE WAS A MISFIR…
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
How this was worked out
Every year of the Lincoln Navigator 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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