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Body-on-frame is necessary for good tow ratings.
Admitted, things may have been reversed by ARM since he took over, like the Panther car demise, the Taurus demise, perhaps he saved the Explorer also.
BTW My father used to two a largish Gulfstream style trailer (slept 5 people) around Europe behind a 2.5 liter RWD car.
To Reset Merc Oil life.....
Use Reset button on Right of Steering wheel
System check
CHANGE OIL SOON/OIL CHANGE REQUIRED. Displayed when the
engine oil life remaining is 5 percent or less. When oil life left is between
5% and 0%, the CHANGE OIL SOON message will be displayed. When oil
life left reaches 0%, the OIL CHANGE REQUIRED message will be
displayed.
An oil change is required whenever indicated by the message center.
USE ONLY RECOMMENDED ENGINE OILS.
To reset the oil monitoring system to 100% after each oil change
[approximately 8,000 km (5,000 miles) or 180 days] perform the
following:
1. Press the SETUP control to
access the System Check function.
2. Press and release the RESET
control to display “OIL LIFE XX%
HOLD RESET NEW”.
3. Press and hold the RESET
control for 2 seconds to display “IF
NEW OIL HOLD RESET”.
4. Press and hold the RESET
control to display OIL LIFE SET TO
100%. Your oil life is now reset.
To reset the oil monitoring system to your personalized oil life %:
1. Press the SETUP control to
access the System Check function.
2. Press and release the RESET
control to display “OIL LIFE XX%
HOLD RESET NEW”.
3. Press and hold the RESET
control for 2 seconds to display “IF
NEW OIL HOLD RESET”.
4. Release the RESET control
momentarily, then press RESET and
SETUP controls at the same time to
activate a service mode which will
display OIL LIFE XX% RESET TO
ALTER.
5. Press RESET until you find your personalized OIL LIFE XX%.
6. With your personalized OIL LIFE XX% displayed, press SETUP to
continue the system check.
Instrumentation
- 6 People (4 adults, 2 small children in car seats)
- Luggage for all 6 people and gear for kids all loaded in the cargo area (half of it anyway) and on a hitch mounted carrying rack.
- Tires inflated to 38psi (35 is the mfr recommendation)
- A/C the whole way and CC most of the way
- Sat in traffic for about an hour on the way down (Labor Day weekend)
- 515 miles each way, averaged 22.8 mpg on the highway
- Total trip was 1237 miles, averaged 21.1 mpg for the whole trip.
I was very pleasantly surprised with those numbers as our Escape, that the Explorer replaced, could only get a bit over 23 mpg on the highway at best. Has anyone else seen numbers like that?
Mark
1.) You can just stick it out for what I think might be another year for you, dump it and move quickly to some other manufacturer.
2.) Assuming that the lease is with Ford/Lincoln/Mercury, you can attempt to work with the dealer to let you out of the existing lease and replace it with another Ford product. I personally wouldn't buy another equivalent model (unless you're convinced you just picked up a lemon), but could shift to another model.
The dealership should recognize that in #1 you are walking and will never be back, which means no future revenue....ever. The advantage to them with #2, is that they have the ability to salvage the relationship with you, and lock you in to another 3 year lease with hopefully a much better vehicle. Assuming that vehicle is okay, then there is a reasonable chance they might even get another one.
As a side note, earlier posts say that replacing the valve body will correct this problem. When I asked about that I was told that all 6 speeds made after July of 06 (mine included) already had the new valve body so other than reflash there was nothing left to do.
I plan on keeping the vehicle for a while so I'm hoping this issue doesn't get worse. Although if it got worse I suppose they would eventually have to do something. I just hoping that the 6 speed doesn't turn out to be a hibitual piece of crap.
Last note, aside from all the above whining, I love this vehicle and enjoy it every time I get in it. Just didn't expect a 35k plus vehicle to not shift smoothly.
"Special Service Messages
20005 2006-2007 Explorer/Mountaineer/Explorer Sport Trac -- various transmission shift quality symptoms - 6R60 Trans - temporary, do not attempt to repair
Some 2006-2007 Explorer 4DR/Mountaineers and 2007 Explorer Sport Trac vehicles equipped with 6R60 transmissions may exhibit various transmission performance issues. When compared to other transmission, some of the shift characteristics are different that previous models due to the 100% synchronous design of the 6R60. Customer concerns that exceed shift characteristics of like equipped vehicles which may include transmission engagement delay when shifting between P-D, N-D, and R-D, Delayed/Hesitation on 1-2 shift, 2-1 and/or 3-2 decel step in shifts. Hoot noise during cold 1st gear launches from transmission pump. TSB-07-13-08 has been deactivated in PTS. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO REPAIR VEHICLES WITH THESE CONDITIONS. ENGINEERING WILL BE RELEASING A NEW TSB APPROXIMATELY MID-NOVEMBER.
This is our 5th Mountaineer/Explorer and the last 3 have had some form of transmission issue. And exactly why we have leased and not purchased. A real shame too - this last model was possibly going to be a 'keeper' - the best by far over any of the others we have had to date. Let's hope the TSB is more than just a temporary fix for a reoccuring problem.
My Mountaineer's shifting seems to be somewhat better. Although I'm not positive it's better. I may just be getting use to it now. I have not done the recent November update. Not going to make a special trip to the dealer for it. I'll just wait until the next oil change. Who knows, there may be 3 newer ones by then.
Repeating an earlier statement, other than the rough shift, I love this vehicle. Everything else about it is great and with 12k miles, all is still very sound and well.
Ford needs to clean up their act in regards to their transmissions. Unfortunately, I will never purchase another Ford because of their attitude and the poor quality of their transmissions. This I feel is a shame, because I like so many things about the Mountaineer.
I was curious as to the results and steps taken to correct this problem and if they had any lasting effect? Does the November TSB that eveyone is blogging about relate to this?
Thank you
88Domer
Again I think this is a great vehicle and with a little effort by Ford it could become even better.
They did not have the paperwork ready when I picked it up, and I did not care, as it was warranty work, so I do not know what they replaced, although I think they will mail the paperwork.
I see that some of you seem to have the probelms return after the transmission was repaired. Is that correct?
When I picked my Explorer up the mechanic also said that he wiped out the adaptive learning part of the computer and to give it a couple of days of normal driving. If I had any problems to bring it back.
I'm happy to I've been problem free with the tranny. Whatever the dealer did (my mechanical skills are not the best) worked. I think that replacing that valve body with a newly modified version did the trick.