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Power Window Stopped Working
2002 Ford Explorer (Page 2 of 5)
This problem may be covered under warranty. Ask your Ford dealer.
CarComplaints.com Notes: The 2002 Ford Explorer is hands-down our worst vehicle on record. "Avoid like the plague" is putting it lightly.
The 2002-2005 Explorer has a very well-established record of expensive transmission failure at under 100k miles. The Explorer has an enclosed transmission which is typically replaced with a rebuilt transmission at a cost of almost $3,000.
Another common problem for the 2002-2003 Explorer is wheel bearing failure at around 90k miles, with a typical repair bill of $500 to $1000 depending on how many wheel bearings failed.
Adding insult to injury, the 2002-2005 Explorer also has a massive problem with the rear panel cracking. While it's a minor annoyance compared to transmission failure, ironically the crack usually goes right through the Ford logo.
8.0
pretty bad- Typical Repair Cost:
- $300
- Average Mileage:
- 101,100 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 87 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- replace window motor (28 reports)
- not sure (25 reports)
- replaced faulty regulator and faulty switch (13 reports)
- replace master switch (9 reports)
- I won't buy Ford again (7 reports)
- find break in red power wire at door hinge and add jumper (2 reports)
windows / windshield problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
I bought this vehicle just 8 months ago and this is the 6th time I have had to have this problem repaired!!!!!! This is absolutely ridiculous!! And to be honest FORD can go to h*!!!! I will NEVER again purchase a FORD!!!!!! The thing that I don't understand is that FORD refuses to recall this issue because they say that it is not dangerous!!! Ok...leave me run a scenario by the FORD idiots that say this is NOT dangerous...I am involved in an accident, I am unconscious, the only way for my 4 children in the back of my Explorer to get out is to wind down their windows....BUT THEY CAN'T CAUSE I HAVE THE PLUG DISCONNECTED BECAUSE MY WINDOWS WILL NOT STOP GOING DOWN ON THEIR OWN!!!!! So say my Explorer is on fire and now my kids cannot get out because of your so called intelligent people that make this oh so great decision that this is NOT a danger to anyone (guess we should just keep forking out $100 to $300 to fix it every month or more) and now my husband and the father of my kids is now going to sue the h* out of FORD because we all died just because our windows wouldn't go down!!!!!!!!!!! SERIOUSLY I GET THAT THIS IS A LITTLE FAR FETCHED BUT THIS IS REALITY AND CAN POTENTIALLY KILL SOMEONE!!!!!!!!!!
- Julie T., Altoona, PA, US