general problems of the 2004 Ford Expedition

My vehicle, without any warning at any speed, including highway speeds, shuts off completely,without any warning or indication that it is about to do this. Always on a straight road with almost a full tank of gas. The cause a relay switch which is soldiered into the memory board that controls the vehicle's brain box that shorts out. After doing research on the internet, I am both shocked and disgusted that the nhsta has not investigated this faulty design by Ford and made them recall all of the 2003- 2008 Expeditions. You only have to pull it up on you-tube or google to see the 1000's upon 1000s of complaints from Expedition owners concerning this constant and dangerous problem, which clearly endangers every Expedition owner and their family. The worst part of this, the Ford dealerships want you to spend $1000 of dollars needlessly to try and diagnose this same, old problem, before they finally deal with replacing the entire fuse block panel, just for the relay switch, which is the cause, the shorting out relay switch. The internet shows again and again, that this problem is so rampant, that it isn't if it happens, but when, because it was a faulty and defective design, which endangers all Expedition owners made these years. The faulty fuse block's fuel pump relay switch burns out and between that and the thin wires grounding out under the hood, drivers, unsuspectingly are left in panic modes on the highway, scrambling to get out of harms way, as a result of your vehicle turning off at all speeds, ie, 70 mph. Imagine a semi is behind you and you don't have the safe means of escaping the dangerous predicament you are now left in to get over to the side of the road? a recall is needed ASAP before too many people are needlessly killed as a result. Expedition's are family vehicle's and usually have lots of children in them! this is too dangerous to keep overlooking.

Can not drive car power train and engine blew out dont drive drive far only in my city and up to maintence and all of sudden girls stop shifting one day while on road very scary had to pull over in middlke of intersection after tht\at day bought another transmission and same thing happened didnt last month spent so much money on trans that cannot afford new agin.

The contact owns a 2004 Ford Expedition. While entering the drive-way, the vehicle lurched forward without pressing the accelerator pedal. He had to remove the key from the ignition to stop the vehicle. The vehicle has not been diagnosed by the dealership. The current and failure mileages were 90000.

On 9-18-04 darrell baldwin, denice baldwin and devin theisen were in 2004 Expedition sitting in driveway preparing to leave for a soccer game. Darrell put the vehicle in drive with the brake firmly applied. The car involuntarily accelerated at high rate until the brakes quit and shot us into our other vehicle parked in the driveway. We veered right trying to miss the truck but was unsuccessful. The car continued across our yard heading toward our neighbors house across the street. During this time the brakes were unable to stop the car and the gear shift wouldn't go into neutral. The path left skid marks down our driveway, across the street and finally in the driveway of our neighbor. This was an extremely unsafe situation. Usually there are children out playing and had this occurred when children were present it could have been a potentially fatal situation! there is a problem that needs to be researched. Ford has taken possession of vehicle for investigation.

The consumer was pulling out of a parking lot in light rain, made a right turn and the vehicle surged forward and veered into the street. The consumer was standing on the brakes, but the vehicle continued to surge forward. The vehicle hit and scraped a parked vehicle, damaging the right side. The vehicle was finally brought to a stop and taken to the dealer, who examined the vehicle and could not find anything wrong with it.

The vehicle transmission was in the park position while waiting on a slow train. When engaging the transmission into the drive position, after the train had passed, the vehicle uncontrollably fully accelerated on it's own. To avoid a seriously collision with oncoming traffic, the driver turned the vehicle on to the railroad tracks where it came to a stop after damaging two wheels and high centering on the tracks. This is a very dangerous vehicle.