Recall Register

2003 Lincoln Navigator: recalls and complaints

NHTSA lists no recall campaign for the 2003 Lincoln Navigator. NHTSA has 127 complaints on file for this model year. 1 NHTSA investigation names this model year.

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Complaint information entered into NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation vehicle owner's complaint database is used with other data sources to identify safety issues that warrant investigation and to determine if a safety-related defect trend exists.

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Recall campaigns

No NHTSA recall campaign names the 2003 Lincoln Navigator. The model year has a page because NHTSA has 127 complaints for it.

Recall campaign: One recall in the NHTSA recall file, with one campaign number. A campaign can name many makes, models and model years.

Units: The number of vehicles or products that a recall can include. The manufacturer or the firm reports the number to the agency.

Complaints by component

127 complaints, 179 component mentions.

A complaint can name more than one component. Each component that a complaint names is one component mention. The figure per 1,000 component mentions shows how many of each 1,000 mentions name the component.

  • 2003 Lincoln Navigator
  • All 2003 vehicles
2003 Lincoln Navigator: complaints by component, per 1,000 component mentions
Component2003 NavigatorAll 2003 vehiclesNavigator, all yearsMentions
Suspension217.95990.139
Electrical System128.5122.8111.523
Structure100.664.345.618
Visibility78.238.739.614
Air Bags78.283.74414
Power Train72.6118.598.413
Engine and Engine Cooling6774.554.912
Service Brakes, Hydraulic39.156.433.57
Vehicle Speed Control39.141.352.77
Equipment27.920.710.45

The table shows the 10 components with the most mentions, of 21.

Complaints that report a crash
6
Complaints that report a fire
3
Injuries in the complaints
15
Deaths in the complaints
0
Date of the newest complaint
22 Apr 2026

These figures are the entries of the persons who sent the complaints.

Complaint: A report about a possible safety problem that a person sends to NHTSA. This site shows the number of complaints and not their text.

Complaints about the 2003 Lincoln Navigator, by the year NHTSA received them. The largest year is 2004, with 22 complaints.

Investigations

NHTSA investigations that name the 2003 Lincoln Navigator
NumberTypeSubjectComponentOpenedClosedCampaign
DP05005Defect petitionSPARK PLUG EJECTION FROM CYLINDER HEADEngine and Engine Cooling / Engine22 Sep 20054 Jan 2006

Investigation: A study of a possible safety defect by the NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation with no closing date in the NHTSA file is open.

Other model years

The number under each year is the number of recall campaigns.

  1. 19972
  2. 19985
  3. 19995
  4. 20004
  5. 20013
  6. 20021
  7. 20030
  8. 20040
  9. 20050
  10. 20063
  11. 20072
  12. 20082
  13. 20091
  14. 20100
  15. 20110
  16. 20123
  17. 20130
  18. 20140
  19. 20154
  20. 20164
  21. 20175
  22. 201812
  23. 201910
  24. 202013
  25. 202112
  26. 202214
  27. 20238
  28. 20247
  29. 20256
  30. 20262
  31. 20271

A year without a link has fewer than 2 campaigns and fewer than 25 complaints. It has no page.

Official channels

Cite this page

Recall Register. 2003 Lincoln Navigator: recalls and complaints. https://recallregister.com/vehicle/lincoln/navigator/2003/. Source: NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation, recall, complaint and investigation files. Data through .

Sources

Source
NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation
Licence
US government work, public domain
Recall file through
30 Sep 2026
Complaint file through
30 Sep 2026
First complaint in the file
1 Jan 1995
Manufacturer in the recall file
FORD MOTOR COMPANY

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Questions

How many recall campaigns does the Lincoln Navigator have for all model years?
NHTSA lists 68 recall campaigns for the Lincoln Navigator, model years 1997 to 2027. None of them names the 2003 model year.
Which component do the complaints about the 2003 Lincoln Navigator name most often?
Suspension: 39 of 179 component mentions, or 217.9 per 1,000. For all 2003 vehicles the figure is 59 per 1,000.
Is an NHTSA investigation of the 2003 Lincoln Navigator open?
No. The 1 investigation that names this model year has a closing date in the NHTSA file.