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6.0

fairly significant

Typical Repair Cost:

$350.00

Average Mileage:

77,000 miles

Total Complaints:

1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. take to dealer; have key or get new keys re-programmed (1 reports)
Ford Explorer electrical problems

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1920Feb 12

Explorer XLT V6

  • Automatic transmission
  • 77,000 miles

The battery died and could not be restarted with a jump, a new battery, or even a new starter. Finally, I had towed to dealer and found out upon my battery dieing and being jumped the truck thought it was being stolen and shut down. Had to get 2 brand news keys re-programmed. The cost for the primary repair was 350 but in the process of finding out the real problem I paid for a brand new battery 110, starter 150 and towing 160 twice...

bhughley

Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

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