AtWhatMileage
Electrical · 1 owner report

Other electrical problem on the 2010 Lincoln Navigator

1 injury 1 of the 1 report 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.

Only 1 report 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.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 1
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 1
Typical repair $250–$2,000
What it means when it happens Moderate
Rank among this year's problems 12th

When other electrical problem gets reported

There are 1 report of other electrical problem on the 2010 Lincoln Navigator, 1 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 85,000 miles. It is the 12th most-reported problem on this model year.

The whole distribution

Percentiles of the 1 odometer readings owners gave.
10th25thMedian 75th90th
— — 78,000 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 an injury 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 $250–$2,000 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 15 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2020, at a median of 300 miles, and latest on the 1998 at 170,000 miles.

By volume the 2001 carries the most reports, with 12; the 2010 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 1998 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 171k
  2. 1999 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 80k
  3. 2000 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 63k
  4. 2001 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 96k
  5. 2002 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 90k
  6. 2003 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 28k
  7. 2004 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 123k
  8. 2005 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 43k
  9. 2006 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 96k
  10. 2007 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 81k
  11. 2008 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 124k
  12. 2009 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 93k
  13. 2010 (this one) 78k
  14. 2011 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 6k
  15. 2013 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 102k
  16. 2014 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 34k
  17. 2015 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 72k
  18. 2016 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 100k
  19. 2017 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 5k
  20. 2018 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  21. 2019 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  22. 2020 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 300
  23. 2021 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  24. 2022 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  25. 2023 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem
    no odometer readings given
    —
  26. 2025 Lincoln Navigator other electrical problem 254k

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.

The running boards of the 2010 lincoln navigator malfunctioned at 78000 miles. The automatic running boards began retracting and lowering up and down while vehicle is in motion (at speeds from to 70 MPH) and while completely stopped with engine off, making loud grinding sounds. Upon exiting the vehicle on the drivers side the running board retracted while my right foot was still on the board, locking my foot in between the running board and the lower body of the vehicle causing me to fall forward on the pavement in my driveway which is on a semi-steep incline. The running board lowered and I pulled my foot free and it began to lower and raise multiple times making a loud grinding noise. I then had to manually raise the board and shut off the auto function of the running boards to keep this issue from reoccurring. I notified this incident to the local ford dealer and was told that the only option I had was to replace the motors. I was not informed why this may have occurred nor was I given any options for medical care or concern due to my vehicle being 5 years old and not under any extended warranty.

78,000 miles NHTSA complaint 1243336 filed 2015-12-06

Also reported on the 2010 Lincoln Navigator

Headlight failure or clouding

3 reports median 125k

Other brake problem

3 reports median 64k

Other engine problem

2 reports median 76k

Other body or interior problem

2 reports median 78k

Stalling while driving

1 reports median 132k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report 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 1 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 electrical problem happen on the 2010 Lincoln Navigator?

Across 1 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 80,000 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 other electrical problem on the 2010 Lincoln Navigator?

1 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.0 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