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Ford Expedition 2019

Safety complaints filed by owners in the first three years, per 1,000 sold.

0.38 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 27 complaints filed in the first three years, of 517 ever. 95% lower bound 0.24.

Against its own model years

The model year carries far more information than the badge, so this is the comparison that matters.

Model year	Per 1,000	Complaints
2008	0.65	36
2009	0.16	7
2010	0.67	23
2011	0.56	22
2012	0.36	14
2013	0.42	16
2014	0.14	6
2015	0.88	38
2016	0.73	37
2017	0.73	41
2018	0.99	53
2019	0.38	27
2020	0.51	42
2021	1.06	85
2022	0.68	49
2023	0.71	48

What owners describe

Phrases over-represented in these complaints compared with the same component on every other vehicle. Counts are complaints containing the phrase.

Power Train 222 complaints

cam	35	16%
phasers	23	10%
cam phasers	22	10%
delayed	20	9%
drum	19	9%
cdf	17	8%

Engine 108 complaints

cam	57	53%
phaser	31	29%
phasers	31	29%
cam phaser	30	28%
cam phasers	29	27%
rattling sound	17	16%

Seat Belts 107 complaints

loud	43	39%
explosion	15	14%

When it breaks

13% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 73,000 miles, from 191 complaints that recorded one).

Failures arrive late and spread out, which looks like wear. Service history matters more than model year here.

What NHTSA did

2 investigations covering this model year, 2 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 53 complaints about this component over roughly 15 months before an investigation opened.

Seat Belt Pretensioner Inadvertent Deployment

What owners and forums say

Not built yet. This panel is meant to carry community sentiment beside the filed-complaint data, so the two can be compared. Showing something weaker here would defeat its purpose.

Check this yourself

Example records behind this page:

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Limits of this figure. It counts safety complaints filed with the federal government, which is a floor on failures and not a census: problems that only cost money are under-reported. Complaint rates also reflect how likely a brand’s owners are to file, which cannot be separated from how often the car fails. Sales are calendar-year and the denominator for this nameplate is automated checks only, not verified against an external source.