On Septemour 2020 Ford Explorer st with 26,800 miles began experiencing a harsh downshift in the transmission between gears 7 and 6. I have 65k miles on this very expensive vehicle with a transmission that has failed from the beginning. I’m not paying thousands of dollars to replace a transmission that has been bad since we bought it new. I’m literally afraid for my life to drive this vehicle at this point. There are codes in the computer from the failures in the gear shifting, but the dealership says they can’t fix it because they can’t replicate it. I’ve taken it into the dealership more than half a dozen times for this issue. Vehicle has never operated the same since and has gotten worse. The four-wheel-drive transfer case was replaced with less than 5,000 miles on it. The vehicle also shifts hard out of reverse or into drive frequently. Then I couldn’t start it again for a while. The light on the gear shift for park was flashing. It gave me a dash warning that read “ transmission not in park” and “park not available, apply park brake before exiting”. Today, I went to turn off the vehicle and it wouldn’t let me. I had to wait 15 min to restart the vehicle. The vehicle didn’t engage the gear again and I was forced off the road. Most recently, I was doing 70 mph on the highway when I went to pass someone and I lost power to the transmission. When I accelerate, there is a metal grinding noise and the car has no power. This car is putting my life in danger! it feels like the gears are slipping in the transmission. It’s happened while trying to accelerate from a red light to a green light and being unable to move proficiently with traffic. This is an electrical, technical issue that messes with the speed of your car while on the road. Again at 64,000 miles and again at 93,276 with lights coming off and on in between but after a while lights shutting off and car functioning normally. The awd module has had issues on the 2020 Ford Explorer regardless of mileage. Acceleration does not occur until foot is off the pedal and the rpms are back down to 1000 and slow acceleration occurs. While on the highway, my car was going 65-70 mph and suddenly stops accelerating and slows down to 40 mph without driver having control of the matter. This awd module has been replaced and fixed multiple times on my own personal vehicle but still manages to not function correctly. All they know is they have an XYZ car and it's broken.Īssembly lines are engineered too, that includes the processes for putting things together properly and ensuring quality.The 4wd/powertrain service wrench appears on the dash of the car along with multiple other warnings “service advance” the awd module has been an issue with 2020 Ford Explorers around the nation, locally as well as the Ford service techs brought to my attention. It means nothing to them, it should but it doesn't. No one goes to the parts and service dept at an XYZ motors dealer and complains about the supplier and their sub-standard parts. There was a one number kit with new rotors and calipers to fix the problem. The calipers were not letting the pads pull back and were heating/ warping the rotors.ĭaimler told the supplier to fix the problem or the new supplier would. When Daimler came along the Grand Cherokees were having problems with the front rotors warping. Sound like a good excuse to you? Sometimes suppliers are stupid and petty and wrong! MOOG's excuse for the premature failing was that Chrysler had not instructed them to grease the ball joints! I'm sure most people here have at least heard of MOOG, a large supplier of suspension and steering parts. When he came back he said "I know why the ball joints are failing." My tech happened to go to schooling at that time. In the early 2000s, Dakota and Durango ball joints were failing at an alarming rate. I posted this here a long time ago so it's time for a repost. So everyone on the assembly line has an engineering degree?
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