2019 FORD EXPEDITION — Complaint #2094334
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NHTSA Complaint about VISIBILITY:REAR WINDOW WIPER/WASHER:LINKAGES filed May 22, 2025
NHTSA complaint #2094334 (ODI reference 11662638) concerns a 2019 FORD EXPEDITION and was filed on May 22, 2025. The owner reports the failure occurred on May 21, 2025. The vehicle had 107,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to New York based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as visibility:rear window wiper/washer:linkages, 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:rear window wiper/washer:linkages 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 2019 FORD EXPEDITION shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
The contact owns a 2019 Ford Expedition. The contact stated while driving at an undisclosed speed, the front windshield wipers were activated but failed to respond as intended. The contact stated that the wiper arms seized. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, where it was diagnosed that the wiper arm linkage had failed and needed to be replaced. The contact was informed that the parts had been ordered. The contact related the failure to an unknown recall; however, the VIN was not included. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and a case was filed. The contact was advised to contact the NHTSA Hotline to report the safety failure. The failure mileage was approximately 107,000.
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 2094334 |
| ODI Number | 11662638 |
| Date Filed | May 22, 2025 |
| Failure Date | May 21, 2025 |
| VIN | 1FMJU1JT4KE |
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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