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Ford Expedition 2012

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

0.36 per 1,000

better than this nameplate’s own median · from 14 complaints filed in the first three years, of 117 ever. 95% lower bound 0.17.

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 64 complaints

downshifted	19	30%
frame	15	24%
lead frame	13	21%
lead	13	21%
downshift	12	19%
speedometer	11	18%

When it breaks

16% of reported failures happened before 30,000 miles (median 82,000 miles, from 85 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

1 investigation covering this model year, 1 of which list a recall campaign. Owners had filed 39 complaints about this component over roughly 50 months before an investigation opened.

Unexpected Transmission Downshift

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:

10455859 · 10487785 · 10489194 · 10498264 · 10510389 · 10515039

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.