Body problems of the 2002 Ford Explorer Sport

Rear window exploded overnight while parked in driveway. We live in southern CA and it was a rare cold night with lows in the 30's. Security camera's verified no one or no object damaged the window. It just exploded while parked the glass was strewn across a 3 car driveway.

I noticed the rear window lift gate was slightly ajar, so I closed it, and suddenly the hinge bracket on the right side, connecting the window at the roof, popped loose, extending the window lift support, making it now impossible to close the back lift gate glass. I checked into the issue, and found a recall, campaign # 04v442000. This hinge has never been replaced. I want to have this fixed under recall.

Body mounts have deteriorated , mechanics I have had look at this said , should never happen , is unsafe and they see it all the time on this year and model also have learned that this problem cause windshield to crack when I applied hard breaking.

Rear door glass hatch hinges came off. This was my wifes vehicle driven very little until she passed away 2009. Then it was driven even less. Back hatch glass was never used as far as I know. She always used the metal door. I drove it to grocery store,put groceries in back using large door. When I got home I just grabbed glass hatch handle by mistake,it came off in my hand. Both hinges were broken. I don't know forhowlong,the latch was all that kept it in place. When the latch opened it exploded outward ,resulting in badly damaged paint and both rear defroster wires to be torn off glass. Luckily it was me and not my wife,could have been a lot worse. Lift cylinders were so strong I could not put it back in place,had to yell for neighbors for help!had it repaired local Ford dealer. Told me about recall for models except sport. No recall for it. $150. 50(not including paint) for repairs & 10 days @ dealer. It now has 71,800 miles glass hatch never used,it has broken drivers side hinge again. 07/28/2014. Have not contacted dealer again as of this time. But I plan to express my concerns for such inadequate replacement parts. Any help would be appreciated. This vehicle was purchased new, never abused and well maintained.

Body mount bushings complete failure. All mounts fail. Mounts fall completely apart and nothing left except for washers and bolts. This can causes body to move on frame. . Have made Ford motor aware but no action taken.

I just purchased a used 2002 Ford Explorer Sport on 08/06/2011 so that I had a vehicle that I could take the kids on camping trips. On 09/04/2011 on our way to daytona beach I noticed the car was pushing and swerving in both directions, I had just put brand new tires on it and replaced both the upper control arms and all 4 ball joints and had an alignment done, I thought that it's a bigger vehicle than what I'm used to and had been a slightly windy. On the way home on Monday 09/05/2011 it was even worse, I could feel the body rolling the car pushing ect. . I pulled over and checked the front suspension. There appeared to be nothing wrong. I crawled home a nervous wreck. When we unlaode the car at home I noticed the car was sagging in the left rear. I crawled under the vechile. I noticed 2 big issuses, 1st the coil spring is broken were lucky it didn't pop out and shred a tire, and 2nd all of the body mount bushings are completely crumbling or just plain gone. Talk about dangerous. I went online and there seems to be thousands of complaints for the 2002 explorers on blogs and Ford forums and tons of sites for complaints for automobiles for all models of this vehicle for the exact same things. I have also seen numerous other complaints on this vehicle for other equipment failures one of them being a whining noise coming from the rearend of the car which I thought was the tires, but apparently it is an improperly engineered differential that Ford will not fix or admit that there is a problem with although there are a couple of technical bulletins out on it. They are just lucky that my children were not injured. How dare they not accept any responsibility to take care of these vehicles that they engineered and sold, used or not. If you manufacture an unsafe vechile and a defective vechile you shold be responsible. Is it gonna take a father and his children being killed.

Ford explorer cracked read panel.

The Ford Explorer Sport has a rear hatch that includes a glass section that has the ability to be opened to load items into the trunk area of the vehicle. Three separate times the rear windshield has blown out as it has been opened / closed. The rear windshield is made of tempered glass and when it breaks it explodes into the person operating the window. There has not been any injuries besides a few small cuts, but having glass explode into a person is dangerous. After the first failure the glass was simply replaced. The first failure occurred as the rear glass was opened. After the second failure, the car was brought to a Ford dealership to fix the issue. The second failure occurred as the glass was closed. The third failure occurred 12/1/2013, it has yet to be fixed. This most recent failure occurred as the glass was closed.