While driving down the road the engine will stall. Has happened several times, replaced mass air flow sensor told this would fix it, but it did not. All but once the car has started back up immediatly.
2004 Ford Explorer engine complaints
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The consumer was making a left hand turn and the vehicle just shut off, couldn't steer, and couldn't pull off. The vehicle was in the middle of the road and the consumer restarted the vehicle about a minute down the road, when it happened again. The battery light came on and brake light came on, but felt like they were still working.*ak *sb
2004 ford explorer engine shuts off and there is difficulty shifting gears.***no answer required***. *mr both of theses malfunctions present a danger and a hazard and are very serious defects. *bf
'04 explorer engine shuts off and steering wheel locks up while driving, car jerks when put in reverse, false fuel reading took truck back to dealership, they do not think any thing is wrong with the truck, this has happen four times.
Car transmission was not responding correctly. After several trips to the dealer to have it checked out, the replaced the solenoid pack several weeks later warning light came on with a battery symbol and said hi temp low oil. Engine died when going to park and then again at stop light the next day. Dealer could not replicate problem. Two weeks later, engine again died with a wrench symbol and said engine failsafe mode. Dealer has had it a week and cannot replicate problem. Did find a problem with and replaced ABS in computer system.
While driving vehicle stalled. Consumer was unable to restart vehicle, and had it towed to the dealer. Mechanic informed consumer that the problem could not be duplicated.
While driving smoke began coming from the engine compartment, the engine bogged down and the engine stalled. *nm the engine ran roughly and smoke emitted from the vehicle. Since the repair the consumer noticed a hissing noise coming from the air conditioner. Air coming through the windshield was the reason for the noise coming from the air conditioner. The winshield was removed and resealed. *tc
I bought a 2004 ford explorer xlt at darcars toyota in silver spring md. It had only 28,000 miles. The plastic valve cover was found to have a crack where one pours the oil in. There was an oil leak around this area. Apple ford in columbia, md. Said this would not be covered by ford warranty. I thought ford's warranty covers to 3 years or 36,000 miles. This valve cover was over $400.00. Why shouldn't this be covered. I signed a paper that states that the ford warranty should still be in effect to 36,000 miles. I don't know how or when this crack occurred, but I have only had the vehicle for 3 weeks. I think this should be covered by ford warranty.
While driving vehicle stalled. Consumer pulled over and restarted the vehicle. Dealership was notified, but did not resolve the problem.
While driving at any speed vehicle lost power.
Vehicle stalled on 3 separate occasions when driving down hills. Vehicle was taken to the dealer, and they were unable to duplicate the problem.
The consumer stated that the engine fuse blew. The consumer managed to pull over and had the vehicle towed. Determined. Please provide more information.
Loud pop from rear-end. Abs light,wrench,and check engine light came on. Found to be a bad speed sensor and defective rear-end. Suv has been in the shop for 2 weeks and no rear-end in sight.
This is intermittent stalls, poor throttle, no start.
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