13 problems related to car stall have been reported for the 2003 Ford Explorer. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2003 Ford Explorer based on all problems reported for the 2003 Explorer.
Engine stops while driving (stalls in motion while turning on street and highway) restarts without problem, has happened twice now 30 days apart.
My vehicle suddenlty without warning will stall and I lose all power. No power steering. I am able to put the vehicle in neutral and can turn the vehicle back on. The mechanic can not find any codes etc on why this is happening. Apparenly this is a common thing.
While driving my vehicle on Sunday, while driving my vehicle stalled in the road. The truck felt as if it was trying to pull a hill. This was very scarey for me and my children because if someone was coming behind us or if I was turning into the flow of traffic this could have been a terrible accident. Afterwards the vehicle couldn't go over 30 mph without shifting out. This is very dangerous and Ford should recall this immediately before someone is killed.
I own a 2003 Ford Explorer-4. 6 liter v8 4 wheel drive, the vehicle has 158,000 miles and have experienced the sparkplug blowout while driving home from work. I was traveling on a busy state road when the engine miss fired and then heard a loud pop and the engine went to missing bad. I immediately pulled to the side and checked to see what was happening. I limped the vehicle into a parking lot and proceeded to reinstall the plug and coil pack. The forcing push of the plug broke the coil pack and tore the plug boot. I just replaced the coil pack and plug boot assembly and reinstalled the plug bck in. I feel that this issue is common on the 4. 6 liters, a friend and shadetree mechanic did a motor swap in an expedition with this same motor for the same reason cause the plug in cylinder #4(passenger rear) tore the threads coming out and let loose metal into the piston journal and caused severe damage.
I bought my 2003 Explorer new. Appx. 2-3 years ago (don't have exact date yet, still searching for info) it would suddenly stall and shut off. The rpm indicator would also jump really fast. I took it to the dealer and they said it was an idle issue and "fixed" it. A few days ago, I noticed a similar issue and nearly crashed. As I was rounding a corner, the vehicle suddenly stalled, thereby causing my power steering to fail. I quickly put the car in neutral, restarted it and regained steering, very nearly colliding with a vehicle in the opposite direction. The car seemed okay for a few days, but then did the same thing again. Two near head-on collisions are two too many. I stopped using the vehicle and had my dealer look at it. They called me yesterday and told me it was the idle air control valve, which will cost $332 to replace. I checked online and found that this is a known issue (TSB 0335, Feb. Of 2003). I need this vehicle so I will have to get it repaired, but think Ford should take some kind of responsibility for the defect. I hope it doesn't take someone having a serious collision due to the defect for something to be done. Thank you for anything you can do.
As my daughter and I were backing out of a parking stall, my vehicle all of a sudden caught off. We were unable to get it restarted. After mechanics checked it out, I was told it was the motor. Difficult to understand, because we have only 38,208 miles on our 2003 Ford Explorer; and a week before that we had a complete oil change. I contacted our local Ford dealer as well as Ford in detroit and explained the problem to them. I told them we had no warning of a problem, the indicator never came on and there was no indication at all that we had a problem, no noise or any signs of trouble. With only a few miles on the car, I told them I felt it was a manufacturer defect. Because they had not received any calls since my complaints, they felt it was not a Ford's problem and that it was a situation I had to take care of. Something needs to be done and I think Ford should handle this problem. No way should I have a problem with my motor with less than 40,000 miles. It's not fair that I have to pay for a job that I believe Ford is responsible for. Tell me, what do I do?.
I was driving down the road & started slowing down as I came into town. I was coasting along and my car stalled out. I didn't even realize it had cut out, I still had steering & brakes but I had to restart my vehicle. I took it back to the dealer (I had just bought it 6 days prior) and asked them to look at it. They worked with the local Ford dealership and came back with "nothing is wrong with it". They said there wasn't even a record of the incident taking place.
I've had two separate incidents where my 2003 Ford Explorer stalled in the middle of heavy traffic. I'm taking it in for service on Monday the 20th.
Consumer states that he is having trouble with his vehicle starting in the morning. While driving, the vehicle stalled. The consumer stated he has taken the vehicle to the dealer several times and each time they replace a chip.
The truck stalled while driving. When the incident occurred the truck lost all power steering and brakes. The dealership ran a diagnostic test but no failure code was found.
My incident appears to be related to ssm 16771 that Ford has dealers abiding by in some attempt to post-product development "re-engineer" their product. My 2003 Ford Explorer which suffers from symptoms listed in the ssm was released by the dealer with the same symptoms it had upon delivery to the dealer (rough idle / stalling on cold start). Now that Ford has had the dealer alter the ecm programming (I'm guessing to richen the idle air-fuel mixture) I wonder if my vehicle still passes emissions and has epa certified fuel economy??? not likely. . .
While driving approximately at 55 mph the vehicle stalled. This was an intermittent problem. It had become hard to start the vehicle when this occurred. The vehicle was taken to the dealership before but the mechanic could not find the cause of the problem. The dealer advised the consumer to change the fuel from unleaded to premium and place a gas treatment in it and the problem would not persist but the problem continued. The consumer was then told that the transceiver circuit was the problem but again the problem returned.
While driving the vehicle at any speed and without warning, the vehicle would stall out. This caused the driver to have the vehicle towed to the dealership. Please provide any additional details.