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I decided to try to update SYNC tonight - haven't done it since we bought the Explorer two years ago. I have WiFi in the garage so I hook up a battery tender and get to work. Hmmm - it's already connected (I seem to vaguely recall we hooked it to the WiFi shortly after buying it) and auto...

Our 22 Explorer had a rattle around the drivers side passenger door at around 65 and more. It's been there since it was new but I finally climbed under today to look. Found a loose plastic retainer that holds up the felt underbody cover. It wouldn't tighten so I took it out and replaced it...

I've searched through this section and not really seen anything since 2020 on the traffic capabilities of the navigation system. If it matters, we have the voice activated navigation on a 2022 with the smaller landscape screen. In the manual it does mention Travel Link but apparently it...

I've never seen this before so for the record: Yesterday the oldest kid comes home from school in my Ex and says the check engine light is on. OK - I hook the scanner to it and it's a bad misfire on #4. No biggie - probably a coil - only one has been replaced in 135K miles so it's about that...

Lots of talk about the single bolt in the rear diff and how it would mostly affect the Explorers with the larger engines due to the increased torque available. So - a little mental exercise - what about the Timberline with the standard limited slip differential? I understand that the engine...

Looking forward to the first oil change on the 22 Timberline so I checked out the filter location. The Timberline comes with factory skid plates and there is a hole under the filter in the skid plate - but it seems to be off center of the filter. Wondering if I'm going to have to drop the skid...

We've been looking at a new Explorer for a few months now to replace my wife's minivan. We finally decided to go for it but were unsure what color to get. You know how things are now - it's not like you can go to a dealer anymore and see the different colors in person. White? Sure - but we...

So I currently have an 07 V8 - been happy with it the past 14 years (bought it CPO used in 08) but it has been - well - a difficult child to raise. I've worked through the most common problems myself so it hasn't been a hard burden financially but I've put a lot of time into it. So I'm looking...

I've replaced the rear bearings on my Explorer but at the time I removed the knuckle and took it somewhere and had them press it. I have a few more tools now and I'm curious if anyone has done the job with the following tools: To remove the hub I have this slide hammer: To remove the bearing...

07 4.6L - changed the oil a few weeks ago and have noticed a few small drops coming off the end of the oil filter since. I've wiped it down once and I can't get the filter any tighter by hand. I'll look at it this weekend and see if it's by any chance coming from anywhere higher up but the...

So it's time to replace the radiator again on my 07 4.6. I replaced it a little over four years ago and it started leaking again after about 2 years. It wasn't hitting the ground so I just put it off - but now it's hitting the ground so back in I go. The question is - since I'm basically...

So for a few months now I've had a vibration in the Explorer (2007 127K). I don't have any OEM bearings anymore - they've all been replaced at least once. And it doesn't feel like a bearing. With bad bearings it's usually more pronounced at a certain speed and there is usually some noise. I...

2007 V8. I put a Spectra CU2592 in almost 4 years ago - mileage wise that was only about 25K. I started losing coolant probably about 2 years later. It really wasn't enough to worry about and it wasn't reaching the ground. Well it's reaching the ground now. I recently put the lower pressure...

Rained yesterday - pretty much all day but the Explorer was only out in the morning. Was in the garage during most of the rain. Went to work this morning - parked in the same spot as usual. Ran over to the other office mid morning for something and then ran by the house to work on it. The...

I've learned recently that I can now post pictures. So I'd like to share some old pics with you. I posted back in November of 2017 that I had an unusual noise in the Ex. It began on start up and didn't go away. It reminded me of a bad lifter from the old days of push rod engines. I took it...

About three years ago I put a new radiator in the Ex - no surprise to anyone on this forum. I don't think I even got a year out of it before I had to start adding coolant occasionally. I did have to replace the rear heater tee during that time - and also the heater control valve. But those...

So something I've noticed over the last year or two - occasionally my overhead lights will come on while driving. It seems to be happening under braking or hard cornering - leading me to believe that I have a bad switch somewhere. It's hard for me to believe that the Ex has that much flex in...

No check engine light but I have been getting some bucking in overdrive at low RPM and some missing and bucking at moderate to full throttle settings even after downshift. At around 100K I had bad bucking and the 'rumble strip' problem so I changed the transmission fluid and filter. That took...

My Ex has about 116K on it now - it doesn't ride as smooth as it used to. Getting some vibrations and I'm wondering about the ball joints. It's coming in through the steering wheel but not like it was when I had a bad rear bearing. All the bearings are relatively new and I don't think it's a...

Hate to admit it but I've been whipped by the Ex. Some of you may remember my thread about 18 months ago where I tackled an exhaust manifold replacement with two broken studs - number one cylinder - top and bottom. I got the bottom one out but not the top. I just went ahead and put the new...

So - a complicated simple question. I have a 2007 Explorer V8 with 115K miles that I have owned since 2008. That's very low - and I only put about 8K on it per year. So what goes with age versus mileage? What do I need to watch out for based on age versus mileage? Anything made of rubber of...

So I was in town Wednesday and noticed that I was getting a bad clunk from the front when braking and when hitting bumps. In a parking lot, I turned my wheels and checked the sway bar end links - I replaced them last year but noticed when I grabbed the bar that I could physically move it back...

It never ends. I'm getting an antifreeze smell in the engine compartment. I've done the radiator and hoses, I've done the Tee, I've done the heater control valve. It's a small leak based on the radiator level but - here we go again. My passenger side exhaust manifold is leaking again. I...

So I bought new tires at 90K. They were rotated at 100K in a cross pattern - the rears went straight to the front on each side and the fronts were crossed to the back. No problem. Fast forward to last weekend where I rotated them again at 110K. Same rotation pattern but this time I'm getting...

Seems to be a pattern here.... Was looking at the engine tonight and noticed that something had been leaking on my passenger side exhaust manifold. Sure enough - the wye on that side was wet. I just replaced it a little over a year ago by splicing in a new wye. Wait - the hose above the wye...