2018 FORD EXPEDITION — Complaint #1822842
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about EQUIPMENT:APPLIANCE:AIR CONDITIONER filed June 30, 2022
NHTSA complaint #1822842 (ODI reference 11471912) concerns a 2018 FORD EXPEDITION and was filed on June 30, 2022. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 30, 2022. The report was geocoded to California based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as equipment:appliance:air conditioner, 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 equipment:appliance:air conditioner 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 2018 FORD EXPEDITION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
Air conditioning unit has failed and after further investigation there is metal found in compressor which forces a full replacement of the AC unit. After further investigation (online forums and discussion with dealerships) this is not uncommon. The compressors are faulty and for a 5 year old car to find metal and replace air conditioning issues multiple times in past few years.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 1822842 |
| ODI Number | 11471912 |
| Date Filed | June 30, 2022 |
| Failure Date | June 30, 2022 |
| VIN | 1FMJU1JT4JE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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