Ford Explorer: TRANSMI3SION OF EXXPLORER 2003

Well, similar problem...

I bought a 2002 XLS 4x4 in October of 2001. 2 weeks following purchase,
transmission was shifting quite hard. Within the following year, it went to the
dealership approximately 4 times to find out why. All tests ran came back with
no results, saying the PCM reports the transmission to be operating normally.
Each time I was handed a printout of a TSB regarding the adaptive learning
strategy of this transmission and how soft/firm shifts are normal.

January 28th of 2003, it was 12 degrees outside. I was on my way to work, and
was told by a friend to take an alternate route to work due to an accident on
the freeway. 2 miles from home, it shifted extremely hard and started to shake
back and forth when I would put gas to it (which it had done this 2 times before
this). I pulled off on the side of the road, turned it off, waited a few, and
turned it back on. Before, this had fixed it. Not this time. It continued to
rock back and forth. Then I noticed my RPM's were at 5000 and I wasn't even
going 30 mph. It got worse, it was at 6000 rpm's and I was barely able to
maintain 20mph. By this time, a haze was entering my vehicle, and I was smelling
something burnt. I stopped, called roadside assistance, and it was towed in.

Transmission went out, needless to say. It had only 19,000 miles on it....
luckily under warranty, and 2 days of waiting, a Ford certified rebuilt
transmission was put in. Now I have just rolled over 30,000 miles, and it's
been shifting beautifully ever since then.

So I wish you luck.....

People always badmouth Ford, and other ones... but I've come to learn that the
first year of a vehicle's life is working out the bugs in the vehicle that the
factory couldn't foresee.... then after that first year or so passes by, it's a
dependable vehicle. Maybe I should by a 1-year old vehicle next time
around......... hmmmmm

"faberlle" <net> wrote in message
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I would not mind if For had a appropiate waranty but as a matter of fact it
is the worts waranty offered on a new car
3/36 how many trips to your folks need to go over 36,000 miles.
Here in Puerto Rico were are only 100 by 36 miles and I, in less than year
and a half have 41,000
And in top of that, if you want to take the vehicle to the dealer anyway,
they try to rip both your arms, here they charge around $70.00 usd an hour
but each job already has an estimated range of time wich they will charge
you even though it was less time but if it was more they will charge you
more.
thats the main reason Ford needs rebates and special cleareance sales
because once you get rip-off once you wold never go back.
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Hate to burst your bubble......

Ford/Mercury (Ford), Chevrolet/GMC/Pontiac/Oldsmobil (GM), and MANY others have
the 3yr/36,000 mile warranty standard.

The only deviation from this are the Luxury vehicles... like Lincoln (a Ford
product) will give you 4yr/50,000 mile warranty. Same goes for BMW and I'm sure
most of the luxury cars have that as standard.....

"Pedro Faberlle" <net> wrote in message
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Aparently you don't have cable on your house because doge offers 7/70000 and
if you buy a car to then selled before 3/36000, thats les than two years in
most cases then why bother in buying it in the first place
in the other hand, I don't mind broken knobs, or foulty radio and other
minor things but when we talk about engine or transmisions, repairs over
$2000.00 and up in vehicles that are less than 2 years it's not an option
for middle class working people and in my case I just had the fuel pump 3
months ago and it was $800.00 bucks worths for new car
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On Fri, 5 Sep 2003 12:01:41 -0400, "Pedro Faberlle"
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According to MIT, the average mileage per year for passenger vehicles
and light trucks is about 12k miles per year;
http://msl1.mit.edu/Mar2Lecture/Use_Safety3.htm

The US gov't says about the same:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/aer/ep/motor.html

And that's what I keep hearing for the US.
While we all know people who drive more, the average remains about
12K/year.

Where do you get the 15K miles/year number?
--
Bill
Replace "g" with "a"
Experience is what you get when you expected something else.

> Longer warranties aren't really a factor for most drivers. I keep 

That's true, but would YOU buy a Kia???? I remember when I was still looking
around for a Car (not an SUV), and I was warned right and left to NOT get a Kia
because they are like toy cars and won't protect you as well as another
main-stream car would........ So, I always look the other way when Kia is
involved...

"Pedro Faberlle" <net> wrote in message
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I have been assuming we're talking about the standard bumper-to-bumper warranty.
That being the case, Dodge (not Doge) still has a 3yr/36k mile warranty. They
have a POWERTRAIN 7yr/70k mile warranty, but that only covers the powertrain.
Albeit that is the parts you'll most likely have problems with down the line
anyway, but again, I was responding under the impression of a factory
bumper-to-bumper warranty...... so please take it easy.

That's ok, and that's what Í'm saying here. If Ford is such a good car, why
they don't back it up with a better warranty, not just bumper to bumper
because you always will have something breaking down but intead the most
reliable and expensive parts of the vehicle (POWERTRAIN). It's hard to
belive the a power player like Ford doesn't back up their product like as an
example hyunday which offers 10/100
with a toy car. Have a friend with a Nissan Pathfinder wich had rough change
of gear, he took it to his dealer and didn't even blink they swap trans and
off you go, yes it was under warranty and yes it was over 36,000 miles. So
you see all I'm saying is tha Ford should back up their product better or at
least try to help their customers so they can keep their vehicles original.

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