2004 Ford Expedition defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2004 Ford Expedition. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• STEEL WHEEL FRACTURE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE08070 · opened Dec 9, 2008 · closed Apr 15, 2009

  Ford special service vehicle (ssv) expeditions use a steel full face wheel design similar to that investigated in pe03009, rq04007, ea04034 (crown victoria police interceptor) and pe03026 (gm pickups and suvs).a total of 8,251 ssvs (2.2% of total production) were produced within model years 2004-2006 and sold primarily…

• 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…