The 99 LTD LEMON

[Bill Kemp]

For a 5 yr old veh W/45K you dont have any expensive, or even difficult to repair, problems.
Maint. of a veh. is a fact of life. Live with it.

 

[Ford_Racing_Guy]

"And, unfortunately, the list of unhappy Ford owners seems to be getting longer and longer. "


should be list of unhappy vehicle owners,

do you know how many people out there have problems with everything they own no matter what vehicle?

i know a guy who has had well over 12 vehicles,

and no matter what the make most of them have given him trouble

 

[Ak LTD Xplorer]

LOL you call that stuff "problem's?" LOL my god..that's funny


we have 3 explorer's,5 ford pickup's and 1 ford car..the rest of out family has more ford's..and we are VERY VERY happy ford owner's

 

[general x]

if you make a list of unhappy owners then you better make a happy owner list. And then hire tonns of new moderators. This is the best selling SUV in canada and the US. You may not be happy with it but I am, and right now I feel I stand for alot of other people right now

 

[ASmallwood]

Stereo Display Failure

Mine Stereo Display just failed this morning on my way to work. I moved the dash light dimmer switch and the display came on for a few minutes and then went back out again. Has anyone ever had this problem? If so what was the fix? I would prefer not to change the head unit as it does control the CD Changer.

 

[dcowan]

Cry me a river.....Only 5 years old....I'm surprized you didn't say 60 mths. Any car/truck built in this era will have problems, the big H, Toy, etc. Deal with it.

 

[EdsonJeff]

I have worked for alot of manufacturers on the sales end of things:

Honda
Hyundai
Suzuki
General Motors
Chrysler
Ford
Harley-Davidson

The one common thing between all of them?

Things break.

It doesn't matter what you buy.

It basically boils down to the service department in your dealership and how they resolve the situation.

The items you are complaining about are pretty minor and on a 5 year old vehicle they can almost be expected.

I recall one time a customer coming into the Chrysler dealership I worked at and complaining for an hour that the truck he had was a piece of junk due to the poor interior trim. He was thinking of replacing it and he was in to look at a new truck, but he was unsure about the build quality of the Dodge trucks. He left the dealership without buying a new truck and later that day went down and bought a brand new Chevy diesel truck.

He was passing by our dealership in his new truck 15 mins after leaving the Chevy store with his new rig when the transmission failed on the new truck he had just purchased.

To add insult to injury he had to ask us if he could use the phone to call the Chev store as his cell phone had died that morning too.

We all had huge smirks on our faces when he came in and I honestly had to avoid bursting out laughing considering that he just complained to us for an hour about his dash rattle in his old pickup and here he was tail between his legs waiting for the tow truck.


Relax,get the parts changed and enjoy your truck.

Life is too short

Jeff

 

[huskyfan23]

Yeah.. how is it Ford's fault the previous owner didn't take care of the vehicle? All manufactures have problems with their vehicles, just not every vehicle has the same defect. Some parts last longer than others and routine maintenance has to be performed.

 

[Bill MacLeod]

Instead of everyone jumping down his throat, why not offer some help with the problems. The "Lemon" word maybe wasn't the best description, but he is rather fustrated.

1) DT running light module is about 100 bucks. I just replaced mine, so if you need the part #, send me a pm.

2) Check the audio forum for some info on the radio display. Mine is also out, have fiddled with the power supply board twice, without any luck.

3) O2 problems, haven't had any yet.

4) Water leaks, none yet.

 

[Brandons]

wow, reading this almost a year later from my last post, i was pretty harsh.. sorry bout that. Ive actually gone through a tranny now. Id work away at the problems though. The leak is probably something yould wanna get fixed along with the o2 sensors ASAP, but the stereo you can fiddle with and maybe be lucky .

Good luck

 

[ExplorerSportNu]

Instead of everyone jumping down his throat, why not offer some help with the problems. The "Lemon" word maybe wasn't the best description, but he is rather fustrated.

First of all this guy had 2 posts here so its pretty apparent he came on thinking he could use the fourms as a *****ING pad I don't think he once asked for help on how to fix anything just to go on his rag about his xploder which really hadn't had too many huge mechanical problems. Then his stupid A@@ comments about buying some jap suv, good buy that so you can go join your jap-crap forum and whine to them!