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2003 LINCOLN AVIATOR — Complaint #660185

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NHTSA Complaint about POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:CENTER SUPPORT BEARING filed March 4, 2008

NHTSA complaint #660185 (ODI reference 10220098) concerns a 2003 LINCOLN AVIATOR and was filed on March 4, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on March 3, 2008. The vehicle had 62,500 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as power train:driveline:center support bearing, 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 LINCOLN AVIATOR cohort independently describe similar power train:driveline:center support bearing 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 2003 LINCOLN AVIATOR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
2003 LINCOLN AVIATOR
Component
POWER TRAIN:DRIVELINE:CENTER SUPPORT BEARING
State
Wisconsin
Mileage
62,500 mi

Complaint Description

I HAVE A LOW GROWL COMING FROM THE DIFFERENTIAL OF MY 03 LINCOLN AVIATOR. *TR

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 660185
ODI Number 10220098
Date Filed March 4, 2008
Failure Date March 3, 2008
VIN 5LMEU78H73Z

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.