Tire blowout or tread separation on the 2000 Lincoln Navigator
Only 4 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.
When tire blowout or tread separation gets reported
There are 10 reports of tire blowout or tread separation on the 2000 Lincoln Navigator, 4 with a mileage attached. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 38,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | 49,970 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
Putting it right typically runs $200–$1,500 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.
This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 4 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2000, at a median of 50,000 miles, and latest on the 2001 at 70,000 miles.
By volume the 1998 carries the most reports, with 18; the 2000 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.
I experienced a continental tire tread separation while driving on the freeway at about 65 MPH today. The tire tread caused considerable damage to the side fender/bumper and side step panel after the tread separation. The car is a 2000 lincoln navigator id # [xxx] which I just purchased on july 6, 2003. The tire was a continental SUV p265/70r17 113s that appears to be the replacement tire for a continental tire recall in august 2002 (NHTSA campaign id number: 02t012000) dealing with the contitrac aw and grabber aw tires size p275/60r17 for use as original equipment on certain 2000-2001 by two-wheel-drive ford expedition and two-wheel-drive lincoln navigator sport utility vehicles. The spare tire that was then put on the car looks to be the original equipment spare tire. It is a continental aw tire, p275/60r17 100s that appears to be the tire that was covered under the recall. I would like know how to correctly identify the spare tire I am now riding on as to whether it is the tire that was recalled and if so as to how I can get it replaced. Also, as to who is going to pay for the damages that the tire has caused and as to how I…
I experienced a continental tire tread separation while driving on the freeway at about 65 MPH today. The tire tread caused considerable damage to the side fender/bumper and side step panel after the tread separation. The car is a 2000 lincoln navigator id # [xxx] which I just purchased on july 6, 2003. The tire was a continental SUV p265/70r17 113s that appears to be the replacement tire for a continental tire recall in august 2002 (NHTSA campaign id number: 02t012000) dealing with the contitrac aw and grabber aw tires size p275/60r17 for use as original equipment on certain 2000-2001 by two-wheel-drive ford expedition and two-wheel-drive lincoln navigator sport utility vehicles. The spare tire that was then put on the car looks to be the original equipment spare tire. It is a continental aw tire, p275/60r17 100s that appears to be the tire that was covered under the recall. I would like know how to correctly identify the spare tire I am now riding on as to whether it is the tire that was recalled and if so as to how I can get it replaced. Also, as to who is going to pay for the damages that the tire has caused and as to how I…
While driving at highway speed, the front driver's side tire blew out. As a result, the front end was severely damaged. The dealership indicated that the tires were purchased new. They were manufactured in 1997 and dry rotted. *ak *tt *jb
Also reported on the 2000 Lincoln Navigator
Other wheel or tire problem
Other electrical problem
Other powertrain problem
Parking brake failure
Other engine problem
Air suspension failure
How far this goes
This page is kept out of search results because 10 reports is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.
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 tire blowout or tread separation happen on the 2000 Lincoln Navigator?
Across 4 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 50,000 miles. A quarter were filed before — and a quarter after —. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is tire blowout or tread separation on the 2000 Lincoln Navigator?
10 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 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