UdoM
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- November 19, 2009
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- City, State
- Durban/South Africa
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- '97 XLT
Hi there,
I'm Udo from South Africa. I bought a '97 XLT 5 years ago and faced a lot of problems. Not because the Explorer isn't a good car, but it was abused by the first owner. It took me a while to find out, that this car was build in SA for export to Australia. Now this truck is at the garage for 8 weeks and they can't find out what the problem is.
One morning I drove the car out of my drive way and there was a funny noise, coming from the left front wheel (as if it was not engaging from 4 wheel drive)
and the lights on my dashboard (4 wheel ) came on as well. Now they checked the gear box and replaced a few electronic parts, but the problem is still the same. I changed the wheel bearings not even a year ago and haven't used the car off-road. I switch it to wheel at last every 2 weeks just to keep it going.
I really would appreciate some input and help here with this funny problem.
Many thanks and I'm glad that I found you.
Udo
I'm Udo from South Africa. I bought a '97 XLT 5 years ago and faced a lot of problems. Not because the Explorer isn't a good car, but it was abused by the first owner. It took me a while to find out, that this car was build in SA for export to Australia. Now this truck is at the garage for 8 weeks and they can't find out what the problem is.
One morning I drove the car out of my drive way and there was a funny noise, coming from the left front wheel (as if it was not engaging from 4 wheel drive)
and the lights on my dashboard (4 wheel ) came on as well. Now they checked the gear box and replaced a few electronic parts, but the problem is still the same. I changed the wheel bearings not even a year ago and haven't used the car off-road. I switch it to wheel at last every 2 weeks just to keep it going.
I really would appreciate some input and help here with this funny problem.
Many thanks and I'm glad that I found you.
Udo