bobyellow
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- Ford Fusion & Edge ST
Owned many Fords, even the 1st hybrid Escape. First EV. Very excited.
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That is unfortunate on the explorer. If it had a 302 in it the engine issued could have been easily fixed for a small fraction of that. My 92 GT 5.0 had 132k miles on it before a slight rear main seal leak. I beat the crap out of that car so it was impressive. At that point I built the 347 stroker but 5.0 pushrod engines are super easy to work on. Dang do I miss those. Every manufacturer has issues so a one off doesn't paint the whole picture. In those days the Dodge was the one to avoid. I don't remember much about the Ford engines, trans, or transfer cases having issues. The current gen 5.0s handle 850rwhp on corn so Ford's engineering has come a long way. No reason to avoid their ICE.One Ford, a 1992 Explorer that was nice until the warranty ran out... head gasket oil leaks that cost us $3k about a month after the warranty expired; Ford wouldn't help out, but a mechanic told us that that was a common problem in the early Explorers. Then we had problems with the 4WD, and it went on and on. We walked away from that Explorer and said "never again" to Ford. The Mach-E might get me back, but no more Ford ICE vehicles for me... We still have a 2003 Toyota Highlander with 220k miles that has caused us very little troubles, and the interior isn't much worse than that of the Explorer.