I was driving and noticed the overhead console, above the rearview mirror, with was sagging. So i removed it, and noticed like 3 of the clips had some how broke (the small plastic piece that the metal clip attaches too.) Now it looks goofy because all the plugs are hanging. Is there anyway to repair those clips? or am i going to have to drop the truck off at the dealership??
I'm glad somebody asked this question so I could read the answers. I've been watching the junk yards for 3 years, waiting for a dead Explorer with both an electric roof window and dual air conditioning. Not one in a hundred Explorers has that combination. I know because I checked over a hundred dead Explorers!
Now I see I'm going to find brittleness in a junk yard pod bracket.
This is January in Florida, the perfect time to take all day making brackets out of sheet metal, so that's what I'm going to try.
If I fail, I can ask a Dealership for the bracket or just keep driving with no dome light.
Wait...the dome light is stuck on because this beast has a bad chip in the instrument cluster. I can either pay Ford to install and register a whole instrument cluster just to fix the dome light or install a door switch for the dome light. Hundreds of dollars to a dealership to fix the dome light or build a bracket and drill a hole for a door switch? How about, "Don't buy Explorers"? At least twelve microprocessors and ten of them have permanent, expensive defects. If I wasn't an electronics nerd, this thing would need crutches.
Oh yeah...the radio quit yesterday.
The cruise control and the key fob quit about 6 months ago.
Make that thirteen microprocessors with electrical defects.