Vehicle is 2000 ford expedition approx. 60,000 miles. Took a trip around 150 miles, most of which at 70-72 MPH. Stayed the weekend, then sunday on the way home at about 35 MPH passenger side tie rod broke, front end of the truck bounced up and down uncontrollable with oncoming traffic, slowed down quickly and pulled to side of road. Drove slowly 5 MPH to nearest service garage, left vehicle overnight, mechanic replaced the tie rod. I do have old part.
2000 Ford Expedition steering complaints
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The steering wheel has a rattle and loose. The consumer was concerned that it may come off.
I had just had my 2000 expedition inspected the month before. I was dring up an on ramp to an interstate and my car swerved out of control. I went off the road. Several cars almost hit me and I them. It turned out that my tie rod on my front left tire had broken. Very dangerous. Very upsetting.
While driving, the vehicle began to shake to uncontrollably. *bf after the vehicle was inspected, it was determined that the outer tie rod end on the passenger side had failed, which caused the consumer to lose all control of the steering.
While driving 30 MPH, the front tie rod separated and the consumer lost control of the vehicle. *ak the seat belt did not restrain the consumer properly and the air bag did not deploy. 4 days later the consumer received a letter in the from ford warning him about possible tie rod failure, the consumer stated the VIN and other information was wrong which may have delayed receiving the mail.
Tie rod broke while driving 35-40 MPH. Vehicle was towed to the dealer for repairs.
Ford failed steering on 2000 expedition. *bf the consumer stated that he had a tie rod failure at about 30 MPH. The consumer requested that a recall be sent out for his vehicle. A review of database relative to tie rod failures on 2000 ford expedition vehiclesrevealed insufficient evidence to warrant opening a safety defect investigation at this time.
A catastrophic failure of the driver side tie rod caused lost of steering and impact into a tree. The vehicle speed at the time of the failure was between 20 and 25 MPH. A complete disconnection of the tie rod end, while driving on a rural road, caused complete lost of steering. Automobile was towed to a repair facility where new tie rods were installed and a subsequent body shop where body damage was repaired. Photos of the failed components are available as well as photos of the site of the failure.
While driving at any speed vehicle vibrated uncontrollably. Consumer was able to maintain control of the vehicle, and drove it to the dealer for inspection. Mechanic informed determined that the idle arm needed to be replaced, and replaced it three times. However, the problem recurred.
While making a right turn it felt like the truck was skipping. Consumer then pulled of the road. Upon exiting the truck consumer noticed that 3 of the wheels were facing forward, and the right passenger side wheel was turned inwards. The truck was then towed to dealership because it was not drivable. Dealership inspected the steering linkage, and indicated that a tie rod had fallen off, and the others were loose, all 4 tie rods need to be replaced. They also had to replaced the lower ball joints.
While driving at highway speed driver slightly turned steering wheel to go around another vehicle, but steering wheel would not turn, consumer lost control and vehicle flipped over.
While driving vehicle and would start to turn steering wheel either left or right, it would almost become free wheeling. This cause the driver to almost lose control of the vehicle. Taking vehicle to dealership to have steering wheel checked. Please provide more details.
At high speed, on long sustained, steep grades 5-7%, at high RPM, the steering locks up for 2-10 seconds. The steering makes a noise and then breaks free. I have brought this to the dealership 4 times and they say they can not find a problem and can not reproduce this event. Every time I drive into the colorado mountains this problems recurs. This problem never shows up on flat terrain. This problem is extremely dangerous. The ford representative has indicated to me that 5 other complaints have been given but that no one has ever reproduced the problem. *jb ****dimsii ivoq entry posted after 12/12/02 cut-over to artemis****769312
Consumer states under rainy condition the steering wheel suddenly locked up, consumer went into a spin and hit a wall. Consumer states steering wheel would not turn. Please provide any further information. Mr
When applying tension steering and going around a curve, tension in wheel broke free, causing the vehicle to jerk into direction of the turn.could result in loss of control. Dealer contacted.
A severe oversensitive steering wheel, harder to control when driving. Vehicle been in dealer shop on two occasions, and unable to locate the problem. Please feel free to provide any further details on this matter.
Could not keep vehicle in highway lane ,had to correct steering constantly on trip to fla. Went to ford dealer in fla. And got nothing wrong with truck ,drove home at 55mph to dealer ,it took 3 service visits to find the problem.
Steering became heavy, pulled over to investigate, tire was bulging all around sidewall. Limped along shoulder at 2 or 3 MPH and 50 tards later, tire exploded. *ak( dot number: w2t6 tire size: p265/70/17 )
While driving t 3 bolts that hold the steering gear box came apart. Two bolts made a loud noise and broke, as the consumer was trying to keep control of the vehicle the 3rd bolt came flying off. Consumer had no control of vechicle, it was towed to dealership. Dealer has no answer and offered a replacement vehicle to the consumer.
While driving power assit system cuts on and off, causing erratic movements and loss of steering control. Cause unknown. Please give any further details.
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