Other powertrain problem on the 2006 Ford Expedition
1 crash 1 of the 10 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2006 Ford Expedition report other powertrain problem at a median of 85,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 75,000 miles and a quarter after 130,000 miles, from 9 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 10th most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 15,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 145,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 128,400 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
22% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16,400 miles | 76,000 miles | 86,900 miles | 130,000 miles | 144,800 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a crash is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $400–$4,500 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 25 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2007, at a median of 10,000 miles, and latest on the 2014 at 130,000 miles.
By volume the 2020 carries the most reports, with 151; the 2006 has 10. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
When exiting interstate, changes lane and as gas petal was pushed, no power to SUV, engine did not race or shake, just no power. Put SUV into first gear and it jerked ahead at 10 MPH to stop light. While stopped, SUV would roll backward if brake not on. Made left hand turn and put back into gear, about one mile later same loss of power until put into 1st gear. One month later, also while exiting interstate had same loss of all power at bottom of ramp when trying to merge into left lane. Suv would only move after put into 1st gear, only at 10 MPH. Dealership could find nothing wrong after a week with the first incident, dealer kept for 3 and a half weeks and the p&s director drove 716 miles and could not duplicate this problem. (note both happen within one week of dealer oil change) p&s director suspects fly by wire issue, said that compared to other 2005/2006 models ours has a dead pedal feeling. *jb
The dealership had just finished removing an extra alarm they had installed on the 2006 ford expedition. I was sitting in the front seat and was excited about getting a new truck, and ended up shifting it out of gear without my foot being on the brake. I told our sales person and they wanted to fix it before we took delivery of the truck. The next day they called and told us it was ready. They had replaced the shift actuator. We checked it and it seemed to work fine. A year later, my kids were getting in the car, I went back into the house to get something I forgot, and my 2 year old climbed in o the front seat and was playing and pulled the truck out of gear without her foot being on the brake and no keys in the ignition. The truck rolled out of driveway across the street and down my neighbor's yard and hit a tree. Luckily no one was hurt. My 10 year old was in the back seat and my 7 year old was standing next to the truck. The dealership said they would fix the problem because it? Was still under warranty. Neither ford nor dealership felt that they should pay for the $1,343.18 worth of damages to our vehicle.*ak
Vehicle has been sputtering when accelerating at about 40mph. Spark plugs are "seered" and ford mechanic tells us its a known problem, but not covered under the warranty because spark plugs are considered maintenance. The manual says we the scheduled maintenance is 100,000 miles and we are only at 76,000. If they are known to be faulty and we are not near the scheduled/recommended mainteance then shouldn't this be a warranty issue? I think ford is milking its customers with faulty parts as I had the same issue with my brakes. It feels as if I am landing a plane when I come to a stop with all the shaknig an rattling. I was told this is a known issue with the ford brakes - they just warp. *tr
Also reported on the 2006 Ford Expedition
Other engine problem
Other speed control problem
Other electrical problem
Airbag failed to deploy in a crash
Other fuel system problem
Other wheel or tire problem
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 10 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other powertrain problem happen on the 2006 Ford Expedition?
Across 9 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 75,000 miles and a quarter after 130,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2006 Ford Expedition?
10 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.7 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed