1998 Ford Explorer Sport from North America - Comments

10th Oct 2003, 07:01

"If you buy one that's only half the money that you are going to shell out"

What things have gone wrong with the car?

Lets see at 50,000 miles the tie rod ends went his is due to no grease fittings. And at $50.00 per tie rod end and there are 4 of them and that is just for the part. Lets see at 62,000 miles the next thing that went wrong was when you first started it up it ran fine, but after it warmed up the idle was erratic to the point where the engine would die. The next thing that went was the rotors they are the very poor quality when they were made there are little pockets of air in the disk that start to rust form the inside out so after a while the surface of the rotors have dime size pits and that was at 52,000 miles.

General comments?

It looks good on the outside, but as far as the parts that they use very cheap. Not built to last.


10th Apr 2005, 20:33

Drive like a normal person, and do normal maintenance, and take advantage of your warranty, and stop acting like you have a car that has 100,000 miles on it with no warranty, and stop driving it like a race car, and do some maintenance, and maybe you could have yourself a good vehicle.

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