1997 Ford Aerostar XLT from North America - Comments

Nothing has gone wrong so far. Just your normal basic routine maintenance.

I have had all kind's of van's and truck's. We own a 24-hour roadside assitance company. And we have a very large fleet of vehicle's. I would defently buy more ford aerostar's before any other van on the market. We have had chevy van's (garbage)! As well as dodge they don't last what so ever. Ford aerostar's have in our fleet. Thanks ford for building something right. By the way anyone that said ford did not make a 1997 Ford aerostar does not know anything, but how to drive one!!!

Seriously? Nothing at all has gone wrong in 3300 miles? Now there's a ringing endorsement.

By the way, using apostrophes when pluralizing words makes you look as ignorant as someone who thinks Ford Aerostars are reliable.

OK, how about 175,000 miles with out a major repair? Is that reliable? Then again, the engine only lasted 190,000 miles. My '93 had 245,000 miles when a deer jumped in front of us and destroyed the front end. Within two weeks, I replaced it with a '97.

Note the proper use of apostrophes above.

You should not be so quick to brand vehicles manufactured by dodge and chevy as problematic, when you have had neither for more than a few thousand miles. Perhaps you have had the others for a longer time than the aerostar and you are unfairly comparing the two.

P.s. he did use the apostrophe right, once...

Mines been very reliable; 300,000 kms of reliability to me more precise! Of course I've had some routine consumeable parts, but that's quite normal.

The entire drive train is still original. I've had a starter motor, which needed new brushes, & a bearing go in the alternator & a camshaft drive synchronizer fail, BUT that's pretty good IMO!

If Ford brought them back, I'd get one in a heartbeat.

Well, I can personally attest to exactly how crappy Dodge minivans are... I had a Grand Voyager (same as Dodge) and it went through seven...yes, SEVEN, as in one more than six, transmissions in UNDER 45,000 miles. What only added insult to injury was the dealers' complete lack of caring (note apostrophe use, it went to three different dealers and each one was as indifferent and ineffectual as the next) I finally got rid of it and bought a Country Squire wagon, which went 225,000 miles without one problem. Chrysler is one company that could fall off the face of the automotive universe, and I wouldn't miss it a bit. I've owned three Chrysler products in my life and I got my ass kicked on every one of them!