I have a 2001 ford expedition that blew out the #3 spark plug six months ago. The repair cost at the ford dealership cost $450.00 with no warranty. This morning I was driving to work and hears the loud pop and knew that a spark plug had again been ejected. I was seven miles from home so I thought I would drive it home. I drove about 20 MPH on the side of the road and the gas fumes were so strong that I had to open my window. All it would have taken it a small spark in the engine compartment for my truck to have been on fire. Please investigate this before someone is seriously injured.
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Tl*the contact owns a 2001 ford expedition. While driving 55 MPH, the contact heard a loud pop and the vehicle began running very roughly. She pulled to the side of the road and smelled gasoline fumes coming from the vehicle. An independent mechanic confirmed that the number 3 spark plug had ejected from the vehicle, and only 7 of the 8 spark plugs remained. He also warned that there was a potential risk of a fire if she proceeded to drive the vehicle in that condition. The VIN was unknown. The failure and current mileages were less than 100,000.
The engine ejected the #3 spark plug, tearing up the threads in the process. The repair involved installation of a helicoil, although the dealer (packey-webb of downers grove il) insisted that the only available repair would be installing a new head assembly. The head assembly, including labor, would have been over 4 times the cost of the helicoil. This must have been due to either weak threads, or improperly torqued spark plugs from the factory.
2001 ford expedition. Drove for five minutes and parked, then walked into house and turned to look back at car and saw smoke coming out of the hood. I ran over there and found the whole engine compartment on fire. I sprayed with hose and unhooked battery. The part that looks like it started the fire was just below the brake fluid reservoir.
Sparkplug stripped itself out of its seating. The mechanic has noted this three other times over the years within his business alone.
One of my spark plugs in my 2001 ford expedition suddenly shot out of the engine block while driving spraying fuel all over the engine compartment. The repairman at the dealer stated "this is just something that happen to aluminum block engines, and it could happen again to the one we repaired or any of the others we didn't repair."
Tl*the contact owns a 2001 ford expedition. While driving 40 MPH, the brake and air bag warning lights illuminated on the instrument panel and smoke appeared. The contact pulled into a local gas station, opened the hood of the vehicle, and noticed flames. She safely extinguished the flames. The contact has pictures of the failed component. She is in the process of notifying the manufacturer. The failure and current mileages were 59,100.
I bought a 2001 used ford expedition in december 2006. By august 2007 while in hay way 11 from el centro to calexico I made a stop in a stoplight in heber avenue. As I accelerated I notice the car running roughly. I stopped and open the hood and I notice that spark plug # 3 blew out of its place. I bought a new spark plug and it would not fit since the old spark plug damaged the head. Pieces of metal went in the cylinder and warped it as well as the piston. No I have to put a new engine in since I do not have extended warranty and the cost is about $2600 dlls. I researched this issue in the net and with local mechanics and I notice that there are lots of people that have the same problem with this expedition or f150.
The spark plug on the 8th cylinder blew up and cause a short on the electrical system.
After sitting for 7 hours the expedition spontaneously combustion and burned up.
A spark plug blew out of the passenger side head (position #3) on my SUV. The truck was traveling at about 45mph at the time under normal (light) driving conditions. My mechanic is working up an estimate, but believes it will cost several thousand dollars to repair. I followed up by researching this online, and was surprised to find many other similar complaints on comparable ford vehicles. At what point is a recall triggered? I have a 2001 ford expedition with a 5.4l v8. The truck has about 80k miles on the odometer.
2001 ford expedition 5.4 v8 triton engine keeps blowing out spark plugs. This happened 2 months ago for the 1st time. I replaced the spark plug. 1 month after that, the same spark plug blew again with my wife and two kids. Once again I fixed it. Then 2 weeks later, the same thing happened again while I was out of town, and this time it took the threads with it. Now I am looking at spending $1,000.00 + to fix it.
2001 ford expedition: spark plug blowout. This is obviously a manufacturers defect as it has occurred on thousands of ford vehicles. There should be a mandatory recall!
I bought my 2001 expedition 9 months ago, it broke for the first time 3 days after buying it. It has since blown out a spark plug 6 different times. I have sent it to 3 different garages including ford dealerships, every time it breaks down about a month later.
Number #4 spark plug on my 2001 expidition w/ the 5.4 engine blew out.
2001 ford expedition #3 spark plug ejected from engine while driving. 95,000 miles. Original plugs.
Spark plug blow out on ford expedition.
Spark plug ejection from engine. Started the vehicle and the #3 spark plug blew out of head which broke the ignition coil pack above it. Mechanic (not dealer) installed an aftermarket kit made for the ford motor. 2001 expedition 5.4l triton 113,000 miles.
2001 ford expedition had its 2nd spark plug blow out this week. There should be a recall.
Tl*the contact owns a 2001 ford expedition. The contact heard a loud bang when he started the vehicle. He drove to the repair shop and the mechanic stated that the spark plugs blew out of the engine block and destroyed the coil. The current and failure mileages were 95,000.
The spark plug exploded from the cylinder head due to a mechanical defect in my cylinder head, and my expedition is the only vehicle I own which legally fits all of my children in their booster seats. The ford motor company won't fix the problem unless I pay them $750, which I don't have, and don't believe I should have to pay to fix their defect.
My complaint is because, I owned a ford expedition 2001 that caught on fire on august 9, 2007. It was out of my house in the night when we started to see smoke in the street, and when we went out of the house, the engine was on fire, and started to advance backwards the fire, until the firemen came and seized the fire. I would like to see if there can be an option to make a lawsuit about this event because of the risk that my family and I lived.
I have a 2001 ford expedition 5.4. I was driving home with my two children when I heard a loud bang/pop and my truck came to a halt. I had it towed to a local repair shop to find out the noise I heard was my spark plug that had blown out and hit the aluminum heads causing damage. The heads were sent out to a machine shop and when it was all said and done, I paid over $3,000 to fix it. A few days after picking it up, I had to take it back in because a cool pack went bad, this was like my third one so far. This all happened in october 2006 and not even 6 months later in march or april, my truck was back to barely running/moving. I had it towed again and once again its the engine. It has been a viscous cycle and one thing after another. It will cost me at least $5,000. To replace the motor with just a remanufactured one. In the last year the truck has sat in my yard more than half the time due to engine trouble. I am unable to get to and from work which is causing my family major financial stress. I cannot afford to fix this again. I still owe over $15,000. On the truck and am paying $420. Per month for something not even running. I am stuck between a rock and a hard place. I don't understand why ford will not stand behind their product. Any help/advice will be greatly appreciated.
While driving back from new hampshire to virginia, my 2001 expedition popped a plug from its engine. I had to have it towed 200 miles because the smell of fuel it was late friday and there was nothing I could do until monday. I called the customer service line in dearborn, mi. I was told by the female operator (charlotte) to bring my vehicle to bowditch ford and to have them run a diagnostics test. My vehicle went off to the shop via flatbed as to not cause any further damage. I later received a call from the service manager telling me that it would cost $92.50, I ok'ed it because over the weekend I did some research on the triton engine and found that this was a common problem. In the meantime I was still in contact with ford and had even talked to an operator named ralph. I explained to him that I did some research and found that this had happened to nearly 800,000 vehicles and some resulting in death. Dearborn, mi said they would keep in touch with the dealership and would contact me thursday. Thursday morning came and I was contacted by dearborn again. They told me that there was nothing they could do that I would have to pay for the damages myself. I was also told by dearborn to ask the dealership, "who receives certain allocated funds each year for repairs just like this". The dealership refused assistance. After all was done I was charged for an ecsd diagnose (92.50); 2 spark plugs (6.81); 1 coil assembly ignition (103.69); fuel ingestion cleaner (6.47) another vehicle key ? (30.00); misc drivability charge (92.50); PCM reprogramming the computer? (92.50); clean the throttle body (78.75); clean the injectors? (65.00). They also fixed a speed control deactivation device of which was under recall. As a disabled veteran that was half my check for the month. The dealership had my vehicle for 3 days. 1st day, checked engine and found the number 1 and 4 plugs were screwed up and that the injectors were backwards.
Tl*the contact owns a 2001 ford expedition. The current and failure mileage were 71000. While driving 2 MPH the spark plugs spits and it affected the cylinder head, which affected the engine, causing the vehicle not to run. The contact spoke with her insurance company ,and they stated that there was a class action against ford for this problem.*ak the consumer states that to repair the vehicle, it would be $4,000 and the two extended warranties will not cover the cost. Update 05/22/07
My 2001 ford expedition blow a spark plug out of the engine head. Research indicates this is a very common problem with ford aluminum head engines. Ford will not provide the consumer with a program to help with the cost to repair this obvious design defect. They have a redesigned head that will replace the defective head for $3,500. Ford takes no responsibility for the financial hardship this engineering defect has caused thousands of ford owners.
Blown spark plug in 2001 ford expedition 2006, had it repaired for $2,000. Today 2/14/07 it has happened again, I will have it towed to the same place for repairs probably costing another $2,000 - $3,000.
Several times, usually at stop lights, while idling with foot on the brake, the engine surges up to approx 1000 RPM for approx 3-5 sec. If foot was not on the brake, the truck could have accelerated into the car in front of me, or into the intersection. Every time I'm at the ford dealership I have them investigate, but nothing is found on the computer code search, and the symptom is very irregular and rare, so it has not reproduced while at the dealer. I've seen this reported before on mycarstats.com.
Tl* - the contact stated that his 2001 ford expedition caught on fire in the engine compartment. The contact had driven the vehicle approximately 8 hours earlier and there had been no warning signs. A witness told the contact that his vehicle was on fire in the driveway. The contact stated there had not been any recent repair work done to the vehicle. The vehicle had approximately 110,000 miles. The engine and dash area burned. The vehicle was destroyed. There were no injuries. The contact has a police and fire report. *jb updated 2/27/2007 -
I had a misfire on #7 spark plug on my 2001 ford expedition. It was repaired on friday at a shop. Saturday afternoon @ 12:30 # 2 spark plug was blown out of the engine completely now it has a blown motor. I have owned this SUV for 4 months. I have the old spark plug and coil pack from #7 and I only have the coil pack for #2 the rest of it is missing. From all I have read on line im not alone.
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