general problems of the 2000 Ford Expedition - part 1

The contact owns a 2000 Ford Expedition. The contact stated that the vehicle would not start-up. The contact attempted to jump start the vehicle with assistance, but he was not successful. The check engine warning light was illuminated. The dealer and the manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 300,000.

My truck has been running fine with new parts on it. I went to my friend's house went in to switch my laundry, looked out her window and my was on fire!! truck off and keys were not in ignition and it was parked in a driveway under a carport. It posed no problems on the way over there, no smells, no sounds, no nothing. And then bam! hood shooting out flames.

Throttle feels like its sticking. The breaks feel like they get harder the longer you drive or use them. Its been extremely cold the last few weeks (air temp of -28f lows to -3f for highs). You let off the break from a stop sign or stop light and it will suddenly accerlerate by itself. Seems to happen anytime after 40mph, even if you slow back down to 10-15mph it will accelerate back up on its own, up to as fast as 65mph!) I need to downshift and ride brakes (which are hard as a rock!!!) to keep it from excelling though town and to try to keep the rpms at bay. When coming to a stop and turning its hard to steer and it makes jumpy/jerky movements forward when brakes are applied. When vehicle comes to a stop the rpms skyrocket until you shut down the engine. If you havn't given it enough time before you start it again, the engine and rpms soar up again. Things we've tried with no luck are, disengaging the cruise control, replacing the spring under hood where the throttle cable is. Thought maybe it was stretched and not depressing fully to alow deceleration. After that we replaced the throttle body itself. Again, no luck on test drive. You can hear a click/ping in the pedal and see it come up once truck is in park, give it time. Pedal seems to be partially depressed and there is play. Have tried to stick foot under the pedal to try and get it to disenge. Worked the first few times that's also why thought it was the spring. No longer works to do that. Can seem to hear a difference either in motor or trany, acting as if it's working harder when it seems to take control of itself. Started happening 12-24-17. Been to the shop many times with no answers as to why this is happening. It's very scary and dangerous! after reading about all the others this is happened to its hard to imagine that there hasn't been a recall or at the very least an answer yet!.

My 2000 Ford Expedition was parked at my job parking lot for 3hrs, when it caught fire underneath the hood near the master cylinder, drivers side, near the firewall. I contacted Ford motor company, bbb, and consumer affairs, which all attempts were ignored.

My vehicle was parked in the driveway and I was alerted by my dogs barking. I opened my garage door to see the entire engine compartment on fire. The fire was so intense that everything under the hood had melted. The fire marshals said the alternator cause it.

The vehicle was parked in a store parking lot, not running/ignition off, and it caught fire under the hood near the brake master cylinder. The fire damaged everything in the upper portion of the engine compartment, the hood, the cowling and the grill. Probably not repairable.

#7 spark plug blew out destroying the coil on plug with it. All the threads are stripped out and theres no way to put a new plug in it. Was lucky I didn't have an engine fire from fuel venting out of spark plug hole. This is a triton 5. 4l v8.

Vehicle caught fire around 10:25 pm. Vehicle was park and cold since the last time it was used was around 1:00 pm the same day. My wife got home and was parking her car a sudenly saw the Ford Expedition caching fire and flames coming out of the enginge compartment. Vehicle is total there are no possibility of repair.

5 people in my vehicle driving 55mph on i40 around midnight when air suspension went out and everything in the dash went crazy. Things cutting off and on moving backwards and forwards, when I cut it off so to not drive with air suspension down it would not restart unless you started it in nuetral but the battery kept dying and exploded driving to shop,. Got another battery, it exploded to. Nothing electrical worked. Door locks, windows,speed ometer, stereo wouldnt come on then would come on by itself, lights to. Air suspension would not work, been in the shop twice. First time they didnt know what was wrong. This time they know but I can afford to fix it. The gem module and fuse box is over 600. 00 plus labor! im disabled with a fixed income and I havent driven anywhere since Feb I cant get to my doctor, grocrey store, to get medicine for heart attack and other disabling illnesses. I cant afford another car or to fix my expo. This could have been dangerous I sure need some help with this. Electrical system failure NHTSA preliminary evaluation #pe05033 status:closed date opened:June 15, 2005 date closed: October 13, 2005 recall: no recall issued component(s): electrical system equipment:electrical visibility:windshield summary: odi has received 39 reports alleging that water leaks around the windshield causing electrical failures, including but not limited to the windshield wipers and the headlamps. Ford reports that water entering the vehicle can wet the power distribution box (pdb) and the generic electronic module (gem). These components control various electrical systems in the vehicle. This investigation has been upgraded to an engineering analysis, ea05015, to allow further investigation of the issue and to assess the nature of the potential safety consequence. Nhtsa: for detailed information & supporting documents, see the official NHTSA investigation#pe05033.

Spark plug blow out.

On June 3, 2013 my 2000 Ford Expedition that I had just purchased 7 days prior exploded in my driveway after being parked for 2hrs. The fire also caught our 2008 cobalt ablaze and caused significant damage to the property that both vehicles were parked at. As of right now there has not been a cause of the fire determined but I did find a recall notice on the Expedition that was issued in 2005 from Ford. Apparently this recall effected the speed control system that led to an electrical fire in the motor compartment causing these explosions. I was never told of this recall from the previous owner who is a Ford employee and he swears that he was never sent any recall letters from Ford in regards to this problem.

While driving this Expedition I began noticing strange intermittant electrical behavior like the windshield wipers not working, radio turning off, windshield wash light blinking, and 4x4 light blinking. Several times in the middle of the night I'd notice that the headlights would come on on their own. Also the air ride would turn on and off while the car was off, and the heater fan would also come on. This would kill the battery. Several times while driving the 4x4 would turn on in the low gear making it difficult to maneuver. On several occasions the starter would turn on while the car was already running. I replaced the gem module and had the windshield resealed several times, but after just a few months the problems would recur. The final nail in the coffin was when the starter kicked on while running and it took a minute to get the car safely stopped. I could smell smoke from the burned up starter motor. The Expedition has sat for 1. 5 years as I am unable to sell it and am unwilling to put any additional money to fix this lemon.

My 2000 Ford Expedition will not stay in park. And when it is in park after a couple minutes it will just go backwards. My Ford has already hit a parked vehicle. I was warming her up. I got out to shut my back hatch it just took off backwards while still in park and hit another vehicle. I tried jumping in the my truck put was dragged and unable to stop it. I don't feel safe but have no choice but to deal with this issue. Many mechnics looked at it said they don't know what's causing the problem.

Tl-the contact owns a 2000 Ford Expedition. The contact stated that the vehicle was parked in a residential driveway. As he started the engine, he noticed black smoke and then flames coming from the engine compartment. The vehicle speed control light was illuminated at the time of the failure. The contact attempted to rapidly exit the vehicle and fell, injuring his back, leg and foot. The fire department was notified who arrived to extinguish the fire. A fire report was not available. The vehicle was destroyed. Neither the dealer nor the manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 109,000. Kmj.

We are the lien holder on a 2000 Ford Expedition. Out customer said that his vehicle exploded beside his mobile home after sitting there for 2 days. The mobile home received burn damages but was not a total loss. The car was a total loss and burned all of the car. Our customer said that the vehicle had two more explosion after the first one. All the explosion were in the engine compartment. The sheriff''s department listed the incident status as unfounded. No one was injured.

I have had no problems with my 2000 Ford Expedition until may 25, 2012. I had taken my husband and daughter to my parent's house and was going to go into town. I was about 50 feet from the stop sign when I suddenly heard a loud bang and my vehicle started sounding like a lawnmower! I was not sure what had happened and was afraid if I turned off the vehicle it would not restart, yet I didn't want to leave it to continue to run because I did not want to further damage the motor. Luckily, since I was only a block away, I just decided to drive it right back to my parent's house; where I had to have aaa come and tow it back to my town to the shop. Come to find out, I blew the #3 spark plug. I was not aware of this ever happening; but I am now. I drive my children to and from school every day in this vehicle. Now I am afraid to drive it because I am afraid it will happen again, and I am not in a position to buy a new vehicle. Ford should own up to this design flaw in their motors.

The contact owns a 2000 Ford Expedition. The contact stated the vehicle caught fire while it was parked. The fire caused damage to the contacts home. The fire department was present, and stated the fire originated in the engine area. The vehicle was towed for further investigation. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The VIN was not available. The failure and current mileage was 100,000.

The contact owns a 2000 Ford Expedition. The contact stated that she received a phone call from the police notifying her that her vehicle had burned. The vehicle was parked and shut off when this occurred. The police and fire department appeared on the scene and no injuries were reported. The failure and current mileages were approximately 179,000.

The contact owned a 2000 Ford Expedition. The contact stated that she was awakened by a loud explosion. She went outside and observed that her vehicle was on fire. The fire department extinguished the fire. The contact confirmed that the vehicle had not been driven for at least eight hours prior to the failure. The vehicle was destroyed. A fire report was available. The failure mileage was 125,000.

I own a 2000 Ford Expedition and my spark plug ejected out of the cylinder head. When is anyone going to make Ford fess up to their design flaw and issue a recall or at least fix this problem for their consumers that have had this issue?.

2000 Ford Expedition 5. 4l my spark plug ejected from the motor causing the coil to eject as well. It has happened twice now. I took it to the shop and because I do not have the funds to have the head rethreaded they would only due a temporary repair.

The contact owns a 2000 Ford Expedition. The contact stated that while driving 10 mph the spark plug failed. As a consequence her risk for vehicle crash and serious injury was increased. She had the vehicle towed to a dealer, and had the spark plug replaced at an expense of $475. 00. The current and failure mileages were 113,000. Updated 10/23/09 updated 10/26/09.

My 2000 Ford Expedition caught fire while parked and secured in our drive way. The truck was a total loss, there is damage to our house and to the landscaping.

Ford Expedition spark plug ejection. This is the second time this has happened on this 2000 XLT. Very dangerous, on highway at 65 mph, sound of catastrophic failure then open cylinder noise, smell of raw gas.

I have a 2000 Ford Expedition with the triton v-8, 5. 4 liter engine that had a spark plug pop out of the head while I was driving, destroying the fuel injector. According to my Ford dealer, this is a common issue. I have never heard of this before and can't really see how you can use the word common with a spark plug ejecting itself, but OH well. Anyway, Ford does not have any kind of warranty on this. How can this be?? a spark plug ejecting can lead to the very real possibility of fuel coming out of the cylinder and igniting. This seems pretty dangerous to me. The dealer will have to have the spark plug port re-threaded and a new injector put in place for a total of 590 dollars. Upon doing some research, this is a very common problem with Ford.

Vehicle was parked next to a Ford Expedition that caught on fire and burn my vehicle too.

Vehicle caught on fire while it was parked and turned off and the ashes from this vehicle burned the vehicle next to it.

2000 Ford expeditiopn spark plug blew out of cylinder head.

I have a 2000 Ford Expedition with the triton 5. 4 litre v8 engine. This vehicle has a little over 100,000 miles and is used for personal transportation only. Today we had a spark plug blow out on the vehicle and had to have it towed to the local Ford dealership. The mechanic at the dealership quoted me a price of over $700 to have a temporary fix of a heli coil placed into the spark plug hole to replace the stripped threads caused by the blowout and to have the coil replaced. He mentioned that this temporary fix is not something that he can guarantee will work so he also offered me a $5000 "permanent fix" of having the entire engine block replaced. Unfortunately, due to my financial situation, I cannot afford the permanent fix and am having to opt for/gamble with the temporary fix attempt. According to the mechanic and research information I found on the internet, this is a common occurrence problem. We are in the process of having the mechanic at the Ford dealership attempt the $700 temporary repair. With the fact that this is a known issue to Ford and consumer affairs, this issue should be part of a recall from Ford motor company.

I was just driving along going 15mph when my spark plug blew-out of the cylinder head in my 2000 Ford Expedition. I have 91,000 miles on it. Now it is costing me $1100. 00 to fix.

I had a spark plug blow out from the engine compartment. After searching the internet, I found this is a very common problem with Ford triton engines.

Spark plug blew out, causing loud, pop-like noise, and puff of white smoke. Plug blew a hole in the engine block. Engine was a 2000 Ford Expedition eddie bauer 5. 4 triton v8.

2000 Ford Expedition XLT with 5. 4 triton engine. I've had 2 sparkplugs pop out of the engine on two separate days. One in Dec. 07 and the other in Aug. 08. Since it is inevitable that the heads be repaired I used jb weld to epoxy the sparkplugs in with success. In 100,000 miles I'll have to pay to have the heads repaired, but I may not have the car at that time.

My 2000 Ford Expedition caught on fire in the parking garage at my job and damaged 6 other cars with no signs of any warnings.

Driving down the road and hear a knocking in the engine. Open up hood and find that we have blown a spark plug. This has happened three times in my 2000 Expedition. We have been stranded unless we find the spark plug or are able to get a new spark plug. Also the wiring has had to be replaced due to this issue. Unfortunately the last time it blew was in the middle of the California desert in 100 plus temperatures.