Six problems related to transmission gear slipping have been reported for the 2005 Ford Freestar. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2005 Ford Freestar based on all problems reported for the 2005 Freestar.
When driving there is a clicking from the front end and feels like transmission slipping.
Takata recall my transmission start slipping when 1st gear to 2nd gear. Feel like some times loosing power.
2005 Ford Freestar, 94,000 miles. Transmission slips slightly and engages hard when shifting from park to reverse and also from nuetral into drive. This problem is intermittent. Occurs mostly when backing out of garage and then pulling forward onto street.
Traveling on busy 2-lane highway at night. . Approx 50 miles an hour. . Suddenly car revved up and went into neutral. . Engine running fine. Transmission would not shift into any gear. There were cars everywhere. . Dark highway. . No street lights. This could have been a very serious situation. Luckily, I was able to coast to a pull off point without any injuries. There was no warning of any kind that this was going to happen. . . No warning lights, no transmission shifts or slippage, no smoke, no smell. Since this occurred out-of-town--vehicle had to be towed over 100 miles. Quoted cost of repair at local Ford dealer--$3,000. Needless to say, it has been sitting since this happened because I do not have funds to get it repaired.
Transmission failed in 2005 Ford Freestar. Vehicle has 66,000 miles. While driving on interstate, transmission slipped and failed. No warning.
2005 Ford Freestar, transmission. On Saturday 4/17/2010 my van worked fine. On Monday morning I went to take it to work and the transmission was slipping. And reverse would not work. I was able to get it back home. But today when I tried to fine out what was wrong. The engine would just stall. And I could not get it back home. I was able to push it back home but do not want to drive it. This problem had no warning of anything being wrong. I have read other peoples problems that they have had and mine is the same.