I hate Explorers!!!!!
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From: Hornbeck, LA
I hate Explorers!!!!!
This has been the worst vehicle I have ever owned. I've had nothing but problems with it. All the way from the rough idle, leaking intake manifold gasket, bad IAC valve to noisy cam tensioners. I fix all this to end up with the "Blinking OD light" syndrome. What's with these units???? I read about more owner problems than any other good things about them!!! I'm waiting for the 4x4 to go out next. I wish this thing was good as my SuperDuty!! No complaints there! I will never own an Explorer again!!! Please someone, steal this and burn it to the ground!!!!!!!! I'm insured! 1997 Explorer Sport 4x4(P.O.S.)
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From: Fort Smith
I hate Explorers!!!!!
rotflmao...
Man, I feel for you. I am on the opposite side of this. I love mine, and have not had the first problem. But I know how stressful it is to get a Monday or Friday built vehicle...
Man, I feel for you. I am on the opposite side of this. I love mine, and have not had the first problem. But I know how stressful it is to get a Monday or Friday built vehicle...
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From: Loveland
I hate Explorers!!!!!
I had a 1996 Explorer Sport, drove it 2 years put 40,000 miles on it and all ever did to it was replace the battery. Maybe somebody beat the tar out of yours before you got it? I've been a Chevy man all my life, but I got a good deal on the Ford Explorer and I liked it so much I went out and bought a new Ford last month. "Ford" used to be a four letter word in my family, but now I own two of them!
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From: Lake County, California
I hate Explorers!!!!!
I purchased a 97 Explorer 4d 4x4 2 years ago and never had even one problem with it. I put 32,000 miles on it during the 20 months I drove the car. Two months ago, I was rear ended waiting at a Cal-Trans stop and the Explorer was totaled. I walked away from the accident. I planned on buying a 98 or 99, but found a private owner with a 95 Limited in perfect condition. I fell in love with the car. I have been driving the 95 for 5 weeks and it runs like a top.
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From: Yakima
I hate Explorers!!!!!
The problem lies in the core of Ford: PROFIT. Meaning, not quality is job #1, despite their claims. Ford really needs to develop better relationships with their parts suppliers to manufacture respectable products. Instead, they are just out to get their parts from the cheapest vendors, while cutting their own throat. Japanese manuafacturers, like Honda and Nissan are part of a "family" of corporations called a keiretsu that are joined together for the purpose of building a quality product. Also, being the home team makes domestics so arrogant that they insult us with inferior vehicles. Ford may be #1 in sales, but that doesn't mean anything when they mass produce so many vehicles. Think about this: What would happen to the dealerships that repair these domestics if all of a sudden the vehicles did not require repair because of a miraculous increase in quality? Does that qualify as a catch 22? I don't know. But, I do know that my next vehicle will not wear a blue oval. This of course, is just my opinion. Let's hear yours.
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From: Grande Pradera, TX
I hate Explorers!!!!!
I just traded in my 94 Explorer for its big brother, an 03 Expedition. I had no problems with the Explorer. Just the common door sag and radius arm thing. I had just over 100,000 on the clock. Never had a check engine light, except when I first turn the key. Never had a tune up and it still idles smooth when I said goodbye to it.
Sorry you had a suck one.
Edit: Oh yea, I had to replace the thermostat once. And Ford replaced the speedometer back when it had 20,000 on the clock. Still, nothing major.
Sorry you had a suck one.
Edit: Oh yea, I had to replace the thermostat once. And Ford replaced the speedometer back when it had 20,000 on the clock. Still, nothing major.
Last edited by propellerhead; Aug 21, 2003 at 12:07 AM.
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From: Yakima
I hate Explorers!!!!!
torq, you sound upset. I am merely stating my opinion and experience as a ford owner. Do not let simple words bother you. My exploder has required that I spend $700 on a new PCM/ECU after it went bad at 90k and another $70 on a new DPFE sensor, not to mention the horrendous rattle that the cam chain makes due to poor engineering on ford's part. Unfortunately, I was not aware of the recall on the cam guide/tensioner. Now I have to put up with it until I get together an ungodly amount of money to fork over to the dealer to fix what ford should have done right the first time. Am I bitter? Yes. Do I have the right? Yes. I am the average joe with a mortgage, a car payment and a family to feed. I would rather keep my hard earned money than help the execs at ford buy themselves another vacation home.
I don't see anything in the guidelines restricting an honest opinion.
I don't see anything in the guidelines restricting an honest opinion.
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From: Yakima
I hate Explorers!!!!!
You are going to have to be a little more specific than that. Perhaps you should read the guidelines re: language, as rules and regulations are open to interpretation. This is my experience and I relay it as honestly and accurately as possible. Also, my exploder has come back with another problem. ford really should realize that by building quality products they could control the market keep consumer's money in domestic autos.
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From: Moreno Valley
I hate Explorers!!!!!
I used to have a 94 4.0 Exploder, and all I had with it was problems. First it was the Firestones, then the stock cd player broke twice within one year, that was crap, then i got in an accident, and that might be the only time i was glad to be in it. I got sideswiped and after that the door had to be slammed to be shut comletely. Thats what stupid. Then my steering pump went, then then the motor slowly gave out part by part until i sold it for 6 grand to someone who didn't change the oil until EIGHT thousand miles later, and when it had more problems tried to give it back. I hate Exploders too. That and Ricers