Chrisrj8084
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- May 21, 2016
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- Location
- CA
- City, State
- Sacramento
- Year, Model & Trim Level
- 2016 Explorer Sport
So interesting to find this thread. I previously owned a 2011 explorer limited which I bought used in 2018. The dealer replaced the strut tower brace and driver side mirror shortly after I bought it and I had no trouble whatsover up until mid last month.
My wife started using the car to commute to work once a week, 120 mile round trip. The first time she had an issue on her way home going up some hills, the car struggled going up some hills but ran fine again once it upshifted. Drove the car the remainder of the week with no apparent issues. Not know about this water pump issue I thought maybe the car was just old and it was just for a short time and ran fine otherwise.
Following week she drives to work again no problem until coming home. Same struggle over the hill but this time it got worse. By time she made it into town it was running real rough and giving her the warning about the engine running hot so she ended up having to pull over.
Drove the car to the shop from there (thankfully it was less than a 2 mile trip).
So the mechanic says the timing chain was bad which killed the water pump. Unfortunately we had no idea for that whole week as there were no warnings and the car ran fine. But because of all the driving the engine was dead and there was no coming back from that. He quoted me at 5000 for a new engine.
Just crazy to me that this is even possible. That one component failing can kill the whole engine. Up until reading this thread I hadn't been able to understand why but I see now that coolant gets into the oil and blows the head and it's goodnight engine. Really sucks.
So I ended up buying a 2016 Sport which I had wanted to get into a newer explorer anyway. But lo and behold that one is having the PTU issues, go figure.
My wife started using the car to commute to work once a week, 120 mile round trip. The first time she had an issue on her way home going up some hills, the car struggled going up some hills but ran fine again once it upshifted. Drove the car the remainder of the week with no apparent issues. Not know about this water pump issue I thought maybe the car was just old and it was just for a short time and ran fine otherwise.
Following week she drives to work again no problem until coming home. Same struggle over the hill but this time it got worse. By time she made it into town it was running real rough and giving her the warning about the engine running hot so she ended up having to pull over.
Drove the car to the shop from there (thankfully it was less than a 2 mile trip).
So the mechanic says the timing chain was bad which killed the water pump. Unfortunately we had no idea for that whole week as there were no warnings and the car ran fine. But because of all the driving the engine was dead and there was no coming back from that. He quoted me at 5000 for a new engine.
Just crazy to me that this is even possible. That one component failing can kill the whole engine. Up until reading this thread I hadn't been able to understand why but I see now that coolant gets into the oil and blows the head and it's goodnight engine. Really sucks.
So I ended up buying a 2016 Sport which I had wanted to get into a newer explorer anyway. But lo and behold that one is having the PTU issues, go figure.