Engine Shut Off Without Warning Problems of Ford Explorer Sport Trac

Ok where can I start besides that I've come to hate my truck I have spent thousands of dollars fixing it constantly first off light in the car go on and off while driving whenever you hit a bump than I get random little leaks all the time and had my transmission worked on a year ago because it was messed up and here it goes again I don't know what the hell is wrong with it but sometimes I swear I just wanna throw the damn car off a bridge every other day there's another problem not my ac has stopped working I was drinking home from the gym yesterday morning at a red light he car shut off locked my steering wheel locked my doors locked my brake started beeping on my dash wouldn't let me do anything that's dangerous it was a major road with the light just turning green I'm stuck can't even put it in neutral and roll it out of the intersection I turned it off and turned it off drove it home woke up next morning found something leaking drove to work not its having problems shifting I'm so done with this truck.

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My Ford explorer 2007 has very low mileage (56,000 miles). Its engine started to shut off intermittently under all types of conditions, streets and highways. It was indeed very dangerous. Indeed my daughter, driving this car, had an accident on sept. 4, precisely because of the engine shut off. Fortunately it happened in a stop-and-go traffic which did not result in any injury. I hate to think of consequences of this happening in fast moving traffic. My research showed that this problem is very common for these autos, and it seems that it is not taken care of. After having my mechanics check every conceivable problem, I was referred to the Ford dealership. Their diagnosis determined the internal pcm failure to be the cause. It turned out that this part is believed to be defective because of its design, and a new one is developed which is on back order. I was lucky to find a new part and had it shipped to southern California and installed. I hope the problem is resolved. It cost me $1,546. 41, which I do not think I should have paid especially with such low mileage. I think this is a case of bad/defective design of the pcm, which is also a safety problem and I think the Ford company should have recalled and replace this part free of charge.

Driving the car it began to lose power, then get power, then it shut off. Restarted the car, started driving and it surged unexpectedly then began to lose power again, then it shut off. This scared my wife because she didn't know if it was going to surge or lose power. Took it to a mechanic and finally after a lot of diagnostics they determined it was the ecm or electronic power control module. I have researched this and a lot of people have had this problem. . Ford knows of the problem but will not replace the module. Others have written of this same problem. . Read more...

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Engine shuts off during slowing for turn or stop causing loss of power steering and power brakes. This has almost caused an accident several times. Dealer says they can not repair and can not duplicate problem. Dealer does not take the problem seriously. I belong to a sport trac club and other 2007 sport tracs have this problem.

Vehicle shuts down when driving---both low and high speed--brakes, steering, electrical, gas--all quit. After a few minutes the car will start again. Has happened numerous times. Dealer, vista Ford, says nothing wrong/can't duplicate.

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While driving the vehicle shut off.