2002 Ford Crown Victoria defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2002 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…

• 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 …