Sounds like I've had all the same problems everyone else is having. Hesitating when shifting and then lunging forward when engaging, clunking in reverse, driver's side front and rear window periodically stop working, gas gauge sometimes gets 'stuck', front hubs and bearing needed to replaced. I told the dealer about the clunking in reverse in the first year but was told that was 'normal'. Now at 96500 miles it is out of warranty and am having the trans rebuild for $2,328 as we speak. Hopefully we can get a recall out of this and get our money back.

Since the car was purchased in 2004-new- it has had the shifting hard problem, or not catching up when accelerated after a stop. I did take back to the dealership and was told it was just a slight solenoid (sp) and was repaired...no it wasn't I have complained since I have had this car-No thanks to TOWNSEND FORD,TUSCALOOSA AL..I have almost been hit several times because it wouldn't go after being stopped...or wouldn't go after turning onto a road, most annoying. When it does catch up it hits HARD!

First I want to say to all of you who read this - PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE check out your states Lemon Laws and fill out papers and form, you never know if you can have help or not. ALSO - I am not sure if many of you that bought used are aware of this - But MANY of the 2004 Fords left the factory with the wrong transmission fluid in them which is why most of us have these issues, even after they were recalled to flush and replace.

Okay on to my horror story NOTE This is only just the transmission story and since there is a history I will tell the whole story rather than keep re-entering I will be updating all the other stuff in the other categories. Yep I have a lemon and I don't drive much - I currently have 52k on my 6 year old car - and I don't trust it - I just upgraded my AAA to plus so that it has a 100 mile tow radius incase I break down and it can go back to my dealer so I don't have to do this process over somewhere else.

Bought my car in October 2004 with 14 miles on it - 1st issue was a recall to replace transmission fluid was at 4200 miles - Car never ran right after that. I constantly felt the hard shifting, felt like I was getting rear ended when transmission was down shifting.

2nd issue was at 5780 miles - I had the hard shifting and hard reverse where it felt like the tranny was going to fall out with a clunk underneath the car - They replaced the solenoid bands and off I went (FYI It didn't shift hard again for awhile but the tranny still had hard into reverse)

3rd issue - was 6800 miles it had delayed engagement and the bands were replaced again and some other stuff - off hand my service docs are at my office.

4th issue 10200 miles - felt like I was getting rear ended coming to a stop - Ford was "Unable to Duplicate Issue".

5th issue was 20100 miles - car would not keep running died when accelerating (not sure if this was tranny but it miraculously went away) Ford also "unable" to duplicate

6th issue was 44000 miles - November 2009 - Gears slipping in 1st and 2nd - transmission rebuilt luckily I had extended warranty - My heater blend door was also replaced at this time for 1200 dollars (warranty)

7th issue 51108 miles - August 31, 2010 - September 11, 2010 - OD Off light started flashing so I nursed it into the dealershit (not a misprint) planet gear shift was broken in half and some other jargon I could not understand - ANOTHER REBUILD????? Are you kidding me - you would think they would replace my tranny at this point after its had like 7k put into it from day one. But I swear this car has a virus and everything in it is infected from the start with their bad tranny fluid.- Anyhow - I can promise you that this tranny will not last me 6 months - I already have weird shifting and I haven't even drove it 500 miles since I picked it up 3 weeks ago. Ford was responsible for this since they rebuilt it last year. They also scratched my car while it was there. I have to take it in Monday again so the mechanic can drive it and see if he can feel the weird shifting - it is sporadic again shifting weird and sometimes won't shift until 3500 RPMS and thats nursing it along. It also feels slow and heavy like I have something towing behind it. My car has no Giddy Up. I have extended warranty and Ford is responsible for another 12k miles every time this is repaired within that year.

This whole process is a waiting game. I have filed for lemon law - I am waiting to see if I qualify for any relief.

I decided to join in and write about my experience after reading of so many stories of these cheap, faulty transmissions that Ford does Not stand by. I am not looking at a possible repair of over 3500! I bought this brand new in 2004 and even purchased the extended warranty for another 1800, and now just 10,000 miles out of warranty, my transmission needs replacing. I am so frustrated! Never again. Where do I go to put my info in for joining in on the class action lawsuit...I can't believe no recall!!

well i thought i was the only one with this problem, but i see im not. yes i have the same problem as the rest of you do. I wrote to the company and i got a "there is nothing we can do to help you " letter then they have the nerve to send me a customer satisfaction survey... well a few choice words and i sent it back. Now i think we all should start a class action law suit aginst FORD before some one gets hurt or killed with these transmission problems. hell i dont have the money to pay for a repair or a new truck. i owned fords all my life and never had a problem that i could not fix myself, but with this new sealed transmission i dont even want to touch it and have them tell me i did something wrong. so i called a dealer and set up an appoinment to have them do a diagnostics on the transmission and to do a fluid and filter change all for the low cost of $350.00.

This is the 2nd time i had this problem, the1st was right after the warranty expired and i brought the veh. back to the dealer and to my surprise they fixed it, no charge, i've been a good customer, bought quite a few vehicles from this dealer, nice people! That was probably back in 2007. Now at 83000 miles, again the hard shifting in reverse, so i returned it to the dealer and now they wanted $900.00, so i am debating on whether to have them fix it. Too bad, i really like Fords, but i wil call Ford and complain!

i put 10 years in at the sharonville transmission plant and built the 5r55 model and could not beleive we were building one with out a dipstick, and had a runnig joke that i would never get one that i could not check fluid level, however i took the buy out in fear of layoff and bought a 2 year old explorer for my wife, we love it till this bullshit transmission ,no recall, it can disengage on the highway witch it has. its a pain to me not knowing if or when it works or when i get the call from my wife stranded, kings ford wants 4 grand for a rebuild 2800 for a redone one i told them go to hell, cause i know how to build one for 130 dollars thats what the kit costs i just gotta do the labor in taking it out and doing it