2006 Lincoln Navigator
This year drew an ordinary 60 complaints for a Lincoln Navigator — the model's median is 25. What they were about is the unusual part: 8.3% of them mention computer, against 0% across the model's other years.
NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.
| Complaints filed | 60 |
|---|---|
| Median for this model | 25 |
| Involving a crash | 5 |
| Involving a fire | 3 |
| Recalls | 3 |
| EPA combined | 13 mpg |
What the complaints were about
- computer — 8.3% of this year's complaints, against 0% across the model's other years (41.7×).
- dangerous — 15% of this year's complaints, against 3.9% across the model's other years (3.8×).
- nothing — 13.3% of this year's complaints, against 3.8% across the model's other years (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
TAKATA INFLATORS DO NOT WORK IN COLD WEATHER. BELOW A CERTAIN [VIN] THE CAR BEGINS TO BOUNCE UNCONTROLLABLY. MAKES FOR A DANGEROUS SITUATION WHEN DRIVING AND THIS BEGINS TO OCURR.
IN COLD WEATHER THE CARS AIR SUSPENSIONS STOPS WORKING AND THE CAR STARTS BOUNCING ALL OVER THE PLACE WHILE DRIVING. THIS TO ME IS DANGEROUS ESPECIALLY ON WHEN OCCURRING ON LONG TRIPS. THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM THAT I AM SEEING ALL OVER THE INTERNET.
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint filings, with identifying details removed.
Recalls for this year
- 05V519000 POWER TRAIN
- 05V520000 VISIBILITY
- 05V310000 TIRES
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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