2001 Ford Crown Victoria defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2001 Ford Crown Victoria. 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…

• FRONT SEAT BELT BUCKLE ASSEMBLY
  Engineering Analysis EA05004 · opened Feb 17, 2005 · closed Jul 6, 2005

  During the initial recall campaign in 2001, the subject vehicles were inspected by ford dealerships using a test tool that would detect a defective front seat outboard seat belt buckle assembly.approximately one million vehicles passed the inspection test for one or both front buckles.subsequent to the recall service a…

• FRONT SEAT BELT BUCKLE ASSEMBLY
  Recall Query RQ04011 · opened Oct 22, 2004 · closed Feb 17, 2005

  Under recall campaign (01v227), ford recalled approximately 1.3 million vehicles to inspect and if necessary replace the front driver and/or passenger seat belt buckle.approximately 1.1 million owners responded by taking their vehicles to a dealer for inspection of the buckle using a specialized buckle test tool.ford r…

• CNG TANK EXPLOSION
  Engineering Analysis EA03001 · opened Jan 27, 2003 · closed Nov 19, 2003 · led to recall 03V472000

  In september 2002, a fuel cylinder in a natural gas powered vehicle (ngv) exploded during a fire.ford and vrtc test engineers jointly examined the incident vehicle and reviewed testing to determine whether the performance of the pressure relief valve (prd) was proper.the purpose of a prd is to protect a compressed natu…

• CNG TANK EXPLODING IN A FIRE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE02071 · opened Oct 1, 2002 · closed Jan 27, 2003

  An explosion of a compressed natural gas (cng) tank should not be able to occur, as the tank is fitted with a pressure relief device (prd). This prd should release the cng in the tank, prior to the pressure reaching the tank burst pressure.the prd did not release in the subject wisconsin police cruiser explosion.nhtsa …

• FUEL-FED FIRES
  Defect Petition DP02007 · opened Aug 22, 2002 · closed Dec 4, 2002

  The fars data shows that the risk of fire from impact in all directions in the subject vehicles is the same as all other sedans.the subject vehicles are not over represented with respect to the risk of fire in real-world high-energy crashes.a further discussion of issues related to post crash fires in the subject vehic…

• POST REAR END COLLISION FIRES
  Investigation SQ01014 · opened Nov 27, 2001 · closed Oct 3, 2002 · led to recall 02I003000

  There is no summary currently available