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CarComplaints.com Notes: How can we give the 2001 model year a "seal of pretty good" when it has some problems with a slipping transmission and a known problem with the speed activation control switch? Because it's not the 2002. That's how.

1.7

hardly worth mentioning
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 0
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
96,427 miles

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2001 Ford Explorer transmission problems

transmission problem

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2001 Ford Explorer Owner Comments

problem #1

Jul 242008

Explorer

  • 96,427 miles

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

The contact owns a 2001 Ford Explorer. While driving 65 mph, the overdrive light began blinking on and off. The contact had to stop the vehicle everytime the blinking occurred. The transmission switched from first to second gear each time the light illuminated. The current mileage was 96,491 and failure mileage was 96,427.

- Bayamon, PR, USA

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