2008 FORD EXPEDITION — Complaint #1260907
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY/WIPER filed February 14, 2016
NHTSA complaint #1260907 (ODI reference 10826078) concerns a 2008 FORD EXPEDITION and was filed on February 14, 2016. The owner reports the failure occurred on February 14, 2008. The vehicle had 121,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Michigan based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility/wiper, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.
The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.
Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same FORD EXPEDITION cohort independently describe similar visibility/wiper failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 2008 FORD EXPEDITION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
MY VEHICLE WAS PARKED IN MY HOME DRIVEWAY FOR AT LEAST 20 HOURS WITHOUT BEING DRIVEN, IN THE EXTREME MICHIGAN COLD WEATHER. THE MORNING OF, I WAS MADE AWARE THAT MY REAR WINDOW WAS TOTALLY SHATTERED. THERE WAS SHATTERED GLASS ON THE INTERIOR OF THE VEHICLE AND SHATTERED GLASS ON THE EXTERIOR SNOW COVERED GROUND. THE BACK WINDOW HAD EXPLODED TO SHARDS.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1260907 |
| ODI Number | 10826078 |
| Date Filed | February 14, 2016 |
| Failure Date | February 14, 2008 |
| VIN | 1FMFU16568L |
Similar VISIBILITY/WIPER Complaints for 2008 FORD EXPEDITION
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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