Filed under: SUVs, Recalls/TSBs, Safety, Ford, Mercury The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has begun looking at Ford Explorers and Mercury Mountaineers from the 2002-2005 model years. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, out of some 1.4 million SUVs produced, more than 200 complaints have been filed with the government agency regarding transmission issues: 11 owners have said that the vehicle will go from park to reverse on its own, and 61 have said that the gearshift mechanism has failed when trying to get the SUV into or out of park. NHTSA's action isn't a full-on investigation, and there is no recall - it is a "preliminary evaluation... to assess the scope, frequency and potential safety consequences of the alleged defect and any relationship of the alleged gearshift lever mechanism failures to the alleged vehicle rollaway incidents." For its part, a Ford spokesman has said, "We do not see a safety risk and we will be fully cooperating with the government with the investigation." [Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution]REPORT: NHTSA investigating if 2002-05 Ford Explorers/Mercury Mountaineers can slip out of park originally appeared on Autoblog on Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments More...
"11 owners have said that the vehicle will go from park to reverse on its own" Did the same guy make this trans as the old c4'S Just send the owners a sticker to put on the dash, just like the old fix.
The transmissions in the 2002-2005 explorers all need to be recalled. There are major problems with them all together. My explorer has 65,000 miles on it and it needs a new tranny already, it wont shift into overdrive it just slips. I checked the internet and apparantly lots of people have the same problem. Fortunalty I have an extended warranty, cause they want like $2500 to fix it. I would hate to know I was still making payments on a $30,000 vehicle and had to pay that kind of money to fix it so I could continue to drive it till the payments were all made.:16suspect
