Brief loss of accelleration at highway speeds in my 05

[Clev05Explorer]

I have a 2005 Explorer XLT and recently on a drive from Chicago to Cleveland, traveling at approx 75 mph, I lost all acceleration for no more then 1 second. This happened 4 times over the course of the drive. I can't tell if it felt like it was transmission related or loss of fuel supply. Anyone have any similar problems?

 

[ffdemoss]

Holy crap, mine does the exact same thing. It has only done it about 6-8 times over the last month but I have made a dozen trips and it never did it until just recently. I took my to the dealer to no avail (of course not). I am thinking of getting a live update code scanner and hooking it up on my next trip to see if I can catch it missing. Did you have the cruise set? My cruise has been set everytime it has happened...but it may just be I always use the cruise on long trips.

 

[Clev05Explorer]

I took mine to the dealer too, they couldn't tell me what it is. I didn't have the cruise set, or i'd have blamed that for being at fault. It hasn't done it in about 2 weeks, but I haven't had it back on the highway for any distance in that time. It has only 20,000 miles, I'm a little irked that I am having problems already. Sometimes I think it even idles rougher then it should when I come to a stop. I read a thread on here where someone was talking about cleaning a sensor that can get a patina build up on it. If it happens again, i think I will give that a shot.

 

[ffdemoss]

I only have 21,000 miles as well. I am almost possitive from your description we have the same condition. If you figure something out let me know and I will do the same.

 

[Clev05Explorer]

I've made the same trip 3x now and never had that problem again. Odd that we both experienced it at the same mileage, maybe it's a computer glitch.