2002 Ford Excursion defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2002 Ford Excursion. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• SPARK PLUG EJECTION FROM CYLINDER HEAD
  Defect Petition DP05005 · opened Sep 22, 2005 · closed Jan 4, 2006

  On september 6, 2005, odi received a petition requesting that the agency investigate allegations of engine spark plug ejection in certain model year 1997 through 2004 ford vehicles with triton v-8 and v-10 engines.odi received a total of 474 non-duplicative complaints on the subject vehicles where the complainant, or t…

• ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRES
  Engineering Analysis EA05005 · opened Mar 22, 2005 · closed Aug 2, 2006 · led to recall 08V025000

  Ea05-005 is closed with ford?s actions in recalls 05v-017, 05v-388, and 06v-286, recalling approximately 6.7 million vehicles equipped with texas instruments speed control deactivation switches (scds).the brake systems in these recalled vehicles generate a vacuum that can potentially cause the scds to fail and, in cert…

• ACCELERATOR PEDAL SENSOR (ETC)
  Engineering Analysis EA04006 · opened Feb 23, 2004 · closed Feb 10, 2005

  Failure counts from odi?s analysis are stated above; see the additional problem experience discussion in the summary report.ford data contained duplicative reports for 4 odi complaints and 1 crash.three crashes were allegedly due to intermittent operation of the electronic throttle control (etc) pedal, one crash occurr…

• ACCELERATOR PEDAL SENSOR FAILURE (ETC)
  Preliminary Evaluation PE03044 · opened Sep 26, 2003 · closed Feb 18, 2004

  The subject vehicles for this investigation include model year 2002 and 2003 excursion and f super duty trucks equipped with 7.3l diesel engines and an optional power adjustable pedal (pap) feature.the subject vehicles utilize an electronic throttle control (etc) system to control engine speed and power.the accelerator…