Do you like the term "Exploder"?

[Trckmagik]

I call mine an Exploder all the time. I have had one of my past explorers just catch fire for no reason. I like that name....

 

[410Fortune]

Brian now we all know there was a reason it caught fire! hahaha you just didnt figure out what it was! hahaha

How much damage and where did it catch fire?

I like that picture of a new Chevy Trailblazer up in flames with teh whole forest behind it on fire, the ignition switch went bad (recalled later by Chevy) and caught the whole damn side of the road on fire! Great picture...Chevy Trailblazer! hahaha

I would like to see that thing make it over a parking lot curb let alone blaze a new trail....

 

[SoBeLover]

I like it when it's being used by someone on here, but in person I hate it. Only Explorer owners can use it without offending someone, sort of like the "N" word.

Exactly, among us it's ok, but let someone else call it an Exploder....thems fighting words

 

[SnowExploder]

I like it when it's being used by someone on here, but in person I hate it. Only Explorer owners can use it without offending someone, sort of like the "N" word.

I agree 100%...
I always get it whenever I take my truck anywhere to get work done. People think they are so funny and I just sit there and think, "your the 1 millionth person to say that to me, good job"...

 

[snowburns]

this guy at a local car audio shop said to me once about his "they call em exploders, might as well make them explode" he has 3 15" strokers in the back...yeeaaaahhhh it was cool

 

[Bashman]

I like it and use it all the time. When I took it to the dealer for the blown lower intake manifold gasket and told them it was a '93 exploder, the guy turned to his co-worker and said "how does he know that's what we call them?".

 

[j602]

I like it. But I don't use Exploder, I use 'Sploder. All my friends like my truck and everybody calls it "The 'Sploder". No one ever speaks badly about it.

 

[RAZOR]

I feel its appropriate, having my engine replaced in the past!

 

[X~FACTOR]

I never hear anyone else say it except on this site.

Personally, I think it's just annoying more than offensive to the owner of the EXPLORER.

 

[bipolarbob]

I call mine Exploder all the time.If you take offence to that :fire: you need to get out more.....

 

[Ford_Racing_Guy]

it may bug me a little bit, but it happens with every vehicle

i do tend to get pissed when people call my T-bird a Thunder-chicken, that is one that i can't stand, there is nothing chicken about my car.


but i enjoy the term Dogkota or Ass -Hole vans (Astro-van),

i learned the Astrovan one from a guy at work, he said that someone Ass -hole must have designed them because they are very hard to align and the suspensions suck to work on as well

 

[A Wise Guy]

cadaver for cavalier

 

[jayhawkexplorer]

I don't like it because my Explorer has been almost perfect for the 13 months I've owned it. I figured I'd be replacing shocks/ball joints/bushings by now, driving on the crap roads here in Lawrence all the time. But all I've had to replace is the alternator and the dealer had to fix a problem that turned out to be a transfer case flange. Personally, my truck is reliable and I don't think it needs any more TLC then any other vehicle out there. The tranny has been perfect too; my theory about Explorers and their trannies is that a lot of the people who have the problems with them abuse the tranny. The main abuse is when you're shifting from R to D and vice versa, many people don't bring the vehicle to a complete stop and I think that causes a ton of damage. My dad swears by not doing that and we've never had one tranny problem in any of the 8 vehicles we've owned since I was born, all of which went past 150,000 miles. Rant over...

 

[N2MUDN91]

I use the term "Ploder"... I dont mine Exploder...
My boss (JP guy)tried telling me, one time, that they call them that because when/if you get rearended.. the rear glass "Explodes"... I told him that was bull.

Shane

 

[bhults]

Uh, this is kinda dumb, but, where did this term originate from? I mean, I know about the whole Firestone Tire thing, but were trucks actually EXPLODING in the past?

PS: I don't use it and don't care, but I got pissed when the redneck behind the counter at the auto parts store kept making a point of saying it when I told him what I needed for what type of vehicle. Dick.

 

[xmodster3o3]

I hate the term, my shop teacher, calls my explorer that all the time, I have even called it exploder. Not that I wanted to, but I guess they say it so much to me, that I also started calling it an exploder.
It's ok they have lil throw away ricers.

 

[hal_94]

I always thought the term came from the first couple years when they got bad press for supposedly being more likely to catch fire in accidents/rollovers etc...

As far as Chevy's... I just don't know... I mean, why would you want to drive a vehicle which is advertised as being "like a rock?" I want something a little more mobile than that....

 

[Rick]

Exploders have never been prone to catching fire.

 

[EMG7895]

Since mine has had an explosion under the hood (bad battery blew up) I like the name.

 

[Paul Gagnon]

I hate the term myself but then again I really dislike calling any vehicle by a similar derogatory name simple because the people who tend to use them are generally extremely ignorant and ignorant people piss me off to no end.

I believe the term Exploder is derived from all the transmission problems that it has been plagued with. I know that is how it was explained to me back in 1996.