general problems of the 2000 Ford Explorer

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The passenger door stopped locking, one of the seats belts is missing the cover to click the belt.

Vehicle is stuck in 4-wheel low animal going to 4 wheel high or auto I.

I was driving slightly uphill in stop and go traffic, off exit 16 on the palisades parkway, due to a controlled stop set up by police to check inspection and registration. I saw smoke around my vehicle, so I looked at my instrument panel to see if my car was overheating. My instrument panel indicated nothing was wrong. When I looked up, an officer was motioning for me to pull over saying my car was on fire. I quickly pulled over, turned off the car, got in the back seat to get my 1 year old daughter out of her car seat, and exited the vehicle. My wife quickly got out of the passenger seat and exited the vehicle. We were told to get far away. Two police officers tried to put out the fire with extinguishers, but were unable to get the hood open. We were out of the car no more than 5 minutes when it was entirely engulfed in flames. Fire trucks arrived approximately 10 minutes later, by then the car was completely destroyed.

Sometimes when I have my turn signal on smoke will come out from the steering wheel where the emergency signal button is on top of the steering wheel. It doesn't happen everytime I use it but it happens quite often.

Before my transmission went out my over drive would flash then my 4wheel drive stopped working. I had the 4wheel drive switch replaced and everything was fine until I went to sacramento. After taking care of my eddie bauer Explorer having the transmission flushed and filled on a regular basis. While leaving sacramento stopped at a chevron to fill up before heading back up to tahoe. As im leaving the gas station all of the sudden there's a loud crunch of metal sound coming from under my car and it wont kick into any gear. Had to have it towed and after reading the thousands of complaints from other owners about their exploders doing the sme thing I figured I would complain. Im tired of big companies screwing the little people over who purchase their products when they are perfectly able to fix it. Shame on u Ford.

The day of the fatality I was standing outside the vehicle for around 5 to 10 minutes. I was on an upgrade,. (however I had just recently had new brakes installed and the car was in park). Suddenly the vehicle began to roll back at a fast pace killing the back seat driver that was in there seatbelt. And injuring myself in an attempt to halt the vehicle.

I purchased the Ford Explorer XLT in October 2000 and within three years the transmission went of service. I took the vehicle to Ford company to see whether or not the vehicle was able to be repaired under the warranty and I was told that the vehicle was not under warranty because it over 36,000 miles and three (3) years has elapsed. I then took the vehicle to amaco CO. To repair the vehicle with my personal expenses at $2,000. 00. They provided at one (1) year 12, 000 miles warranty. Within two years the transmission went out again and I had to take it to another transmission company because I did not have a warranty anymore. I took the vehicle to a auto shop to service the transmission again and was given after the repair an one (1) year warranty at 12,000 miles. Three years later the transmission went out again in 2014 and now I had to have the vehicle repair for transmission failure. Now again the vehicle was repaired and given a one (1) year warranty at 12, 000 miles. Now we are in 2015, the transmission is requiring repair for the fourth time. This vehicle has been a lemon from the beginning first with the firestone tires and now with the transmission. I cannot afford to repair this vehicle, it is at 293,500 miles. I have contacted Ford company several times to no resolution. Ford company has indicated that the vehicle is not under warranty and that there is nothing they can do. They indicated that the national highway and safety must deem the vehicle to be a lemon, have sufficent customer complaints and move forward to have a national recall. Based on internet findings the year 2000 to 2004 of Ford explore's has had many issues with the transmission. Ford company has refused to perform a "goodwill" gesture on repairing this lemon. This is unacceptable that now I have replaced and repaired this transmission three (3) times within the span of 8 years.

Consumer feels the trailer hitch is not sufficient for pulling a certain amount of weight.