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10.0

really awful

Typical Repair Cost:

$500.00

Average Mileage:

110,000 miles

Total Complaints:

1 complaints

Most common solutions:

  1. replaced wheel studs and rotor (1 reports)
Ford Windstar wheels / hubs problems

wheels / hubs problem

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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S

problem #1

2005Nov 14

Windstar 3.8V6

  • Automatic transmission
  • 110,000 miles

I am lucky to be alive after the front tire and wheel flew off the car at 60mph. All 5 wheel studs catastrophically snapped off with no warning. Some internet research shows that this has occurred to other high mileage Windstars with alloy wheels. Be forewarned.

Robert R.

Farmingdale, NY, USA

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