This model year has 424 processed complaint reports; POWER TRAIN is the most frequently classified system at 28.5% of reports.
Federal telemetry verified ● Model-year dossier
2021 FORD EXPLORER
Complaint-pattern analysis from publicly available NHTSA safety records.
1.0Reliability score / 10
System health index
Reliability telemetry
A normalized signal from documented incident volume and NHTSA crash or fire report flags.
Documented incidents424
Reports with crash / fire flags19
Flagged-report share4.48%
Primary reported systemPOWER TRAIN
Crash and fire flags identify how a complaint was recorded by NHTSA. They do not establish that a reported component caused the event.
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Component analysis
Most frequently reported systems.
POWER TRAIN121 documented reports
28.5%OTHER / UNSPECIFIED92 documented reports
21.7%ENGINE48 documented reports
11.3%ELECTRICAL SYSTEM42 documented reports
9.9%BACK OVER PREVENTION36 documented reports
8.5%VISIBILITY/WIPER23 documented reports
5.4%SERVICE BRAKES23 documented reports
5.4%STRUCTURE23 documented reports
5.4%FORWARD COLLISION AVOIDANCE19 documented reports
4.5%FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM18 documented reports
4.2%Show all 33 reported components
VISIBILITY17 documented reports
4.0%VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL15 documented reports
3.5%SUSPENSION15 documented reports
3.5%SEATS14 documented reports
3.3%ENGINE / ENGINE COOLING10 documented reports
2.4%EXTERIOR LIGHTING8 documented reports
1.9%FUEL SYSTEM8 documented reports
1.9%GASOLINE8 documented reports
1.9%STEERING6 documented reports
1.4%AIR BAGS6 documented reports
1.4%WHEELS5 documented reports
1.2%LANE DEPARTURE5 documented reports
1.2%SEAT BELTS3 documented reports
0.7%HYDRAULIC3 documented reports
0.7%CHEST CLIP2 documented reports
0.5%BUCKLE2 documented reports
0.5%HARNESS2 documented reports
0.5%EQUIPMENT2 documented reports
0.5%TIRES2 documented reports
0.5%FIRE-RELATED1 documented reports
0.2%LATCHES/LOCKS/LINKAGES1 documented reports
0.2%AIR1 documented reports
0.2%PARKING BRAKE1 documented reports
0.2%What the data says
POWER TRAIN is the most frequently classified component, appearing in 28.5% of complaint reports in this dataset. This 2021 FORD EXPLORER has 424 complaint reports in the records we have processed. One report can be classified under more than one component, so component shares do not add up to 100%.
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