2003 Ford Crown Victoria defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2003 Ford Crown Victoria. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• Loss of headlights
  Preliminary Evaluation PE15028 · opened Aug 10, 2015 · closed Jan 8, 2016 · led to recall 15V861000

  The Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) opened an investigation concerning the loss of headlights in model year (MY) 2003-2005 Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand Marquis vehicles. The subject vehicles share the same architecture and major components.ODI has received 636 unique reports (for all submission dates) re…

• Loss of headlamp/exterior lighting
  Defect Petition DP15002 · opened Apr 1, 2015 · closed Aug 11, 2015

  In a letter dated October 2, 2014 the Office of Defects Investigation (ODI) was initially petitioned by the North Carolina Consumers Council, Inc. requesting a defect investigation of an alleged defect condition resulting in headlight and/or exterior lighting failure on 2003-2005 Ford Crown Victoria and Mercury Grand M…

• LOSS OF HEADLIGHT FUNCTION
  Preliminary Evaluation PE08066 · opened Nov 26, 2008 · closed Mar 24, 2009

  The agency has closed this investigation based on its review of complaint reports, field and technical data provided by ford and complainant interviews. Ford found that some lighting control modules (lcm) in the subject vehicles contained defective solder joints on the printed circuit board.this condition can lead to p…

• 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…

• FRACTURE OF THE STEEL WHEEL RIM
  Recall Query RQ04007 · opened Aug 2, 2004 · closed Dec 20, 2004

  During a september 23, 2004 meeting and in subsequent discussions in november, ford advised the office of defects investigation (odi) of their plans to introduce an improved steel wheel for manufacturing and service component use on the subject vehicles, indicating this would occur in december 2004.the new wheel design…

• REAR AXLE FRACTURE
  Preliminary Evaluation PE04010 · opened Jan 22, 2004 · closed Jul 8, 2004 · led to recall 04V328000

  This pe was opened after odi became aware of two allegations concerning rear axle fracture and partial wheel separation involving my 2003 ford crown victoria police interceptors (cvpi).initially, the pe's scope involved all my 2003 grand marquis, crown victoria, and lincoln town cars (I.e., panther platform) produced t…

• FRACTURE OF THE STEEL WHEEL RIM
  Preliminary Evaluation PE03009 · opened Feb 25, 2003 · closed Aug 8, 2003 · led to recall 03V279000

  The subject wheel (new for my 2003) is used on crown victoria (cv) and grand marquis.complaint data indicates that wheel failure affects primarily the commercial specification cv model (police and taxi) which has unique design characteristics and is generally subjected to higher usage demands.during ford's analysis, it…

• 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 …