While applying the brakes, the ABS light illuminated on the dashboard and the vehicle had no brakes. *ak. The dealer found the ABS out of calibration.
2003 Ford Expedition brakes complaints
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Rear brake pads were worn to the metal at 32,000 miles on my 2003 ford expedition. I am told that this was very unusual for the rear pads to wear out so fast. Brakes felt like they were failing at the time I heard the scraping of the metal scraping against the rotors.
Excessive brake dust on front wheels.
There is a rattling noise in passenger side door. And at time it is hard to close. When the vehicle reached 43 MPH a humming noise could be heard. The humming continued when the vehicle reached 59-72 MPH. The technicians replaced the drive shaft twice but the noise continued. There was a roaring noise which came from the wheel area. The dealer adjusted the park brake shoes. The was noise the steering wheel was turn right or left. The technician added a wheel additive. The passenger door was difficult to close. The dealer adjusted the striker. The front windshield weather strip was loose. The dealer resealed it. The was rattling in the center of the dash. The dealer removed and reinstalled a cluster and reinstalled the insulation. The driver side seat belt twisted.
When turning left or right loud grinding noise- has been serviced 4 times and after the last time it stopped, but has since returned. Also, excessive amounts of brake dust on wheels, and they are making noises. Also as if they need to be changed and theres only 4000 miles on the truck.
Excessive brake dust on wheels. After cleaning the wheels are completely black after one day.
Consumer states when pressing on brake pedal vehicle goes into extended stopping distance. Consumer has to apply force to brakes to stop vehicle.
Excessive brake dust on front wheels. Black after 2 days.
Side mirrors do not return to original position after backing up. Too much brake dust and wear. Tires had to be replaced at 20,000 miles for sidewall degradation.
When applying brakes at any speed in curves or at an incline, brake pedal will buckle and go to the floor, resulting in no braking action. This happened 8 times. On 27 may at take off after a complete stop, consumer applied brake, no braking action, vehicle hit another. Damage was $1272.
On a number of occasions the ABS system has failed to perform as described by the manufacturer. Upon stopping when the ABS takes over my vehicle bucks and sends me bucking through intersections. According to the dealership where I purchased this is the way the ABS works. This vehicle also has very poor visibility, there are many large blind spots.
Brake dust on font wheels.
Excessive brake dust on front wheels of 2003 ford expedition. Front brakes needed replacement after only 13,000 miles. Rotors also needed replacement. Brake replacement on all previous vehicles took place after 25,000 miles were on the vehicles. Ford customer service did not believe that there is a problem with the brake pads or brakes and was not willing to do anything to resolve the problem. However, I did see a notice to ford dealerships that admitted the brake dust problem, and stated that ford was looking at different brake pads for the 2003 expedition.
The front wheels on every new expedition I see on the road (including mine) display a far excessive sooting from the front brake pads. This rapidly turns the wheels dark and dirty, but more importantly indicate a far too excessive wear rate for the front brake pads, indicating an engineering change of pad material is required.
There is an enormous amount of brake dust build-up on the front and back wheels. After having the truck washed, an enormous amount of break dust began to build-up after traveling 1 mile. *nlm I was told by the dealership service representative that this was the #1 complaint made by 2003 expedition owners when they bring their vehicles in to be serviced. The service representative also said that there was no solution to the problem. I called the ford company and they told me the solution to the problem is to wash the wheels every week. This will not fix the brake dust problem, so it is not a solution.
The emergency brake pedal was too high on the vehicle.
Severe front brake dust on wheels at 500 miles.
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