are 2002's really that bad? (it's a bad title I'll try to explain)

[FordLover]

I have a late build 7/2002 and I've had to replace a defective instrument cluster out of warranty. Everything else was replaced under the original 3 year 36K warranty and I really can't remember what all was done, but I'd say about three items were repaired, and none were terribly big deals.