My 2002 Exporer is a piece of junk! In Feb. 2011 my gear shift broke off while backing out of the grocery store. I had to flat bed it twice! I had it towed to a local Ford dealership and it took 1 week before I got the car back. $1200.00 later I have a new steering column. Gotta love the Fords!! My father is a for retiree and my mom drives a Toyota! The real problem I have it there are hundreds of postings on the internet with the same problem but many had the replacements done at local shops and not at Ford dealerships, so Ford does not have a "registered complaints" of this problem. Also the labor was about $139.00 and the part $959.00 for a piece of pot metal!!!! That's Ford mark up the replacement parts 1,0000 % !

I also have the cracked backpanel, replaced the 4x4 and the electrical wiring on the drivers side door oh yeah the wheel prongs that hold the wheel on also replaced! These workers that made this card but have had an off day or were on break!!!

My daughter was on the freeway going to school when she heard a loud popping sound in the left front wheel she managed to get off and tried to stop the vehicle and had no brakes the abs light system came on and when she tried going again the left wheel was wobbling and grinding noise.Took the vehicle to shop costing some 2500 dollars to fix this problem something about tire arm or thing that hooks tire to car broke and was cutting into wheel rim causing this and brake job not a year old cost 1300 dollars for bearings and pads this vehicle is killing by purse. No more fords for me going back to Chevys./