![]() To my knowledge, which I have not been able to confirm, the design was corrected in newer models, but no assistance was afforded to the owners of the affected vehicles. With all of the incidents and all the victims of this design flaw, a recall should have, in my opinion, resulted, but it did not. Numerous correspondence with the dealership of origin, liccardi Ford of watchung, NJ, and the Ford motor company were fruitless. I attempted to negotiate with Ford motor company to no avail, and I had to expend the funds to acquire and install a rebuilt engine, at my own expense, to be able to continue to use the vehicle for my livelihood. ![]() It occurred while I was in traffic and the exception caused total engine failure with no advance warning, no instrument panel warning and the entire engine had to be replaced at my personal cost of over $7,000. ![]() This incident happened to me and the 2015 Ford Explorer XLT vehicle I was driving. Catastrophic damage in 2011 to 2020 models, with the replacement costs having to be borne by the owner of said vehicle because no recall had been undertaken, despite of their being a host of victimized owners. In 2015, when I leased a Ford Explorer XLT, I was never made aware or otherwise notified that a host of Ford models, including the 2015 Ford Explorer XLT had a long known design flaw in which the water pump, encased in the engine block, had a history of prematurely breaking and causing engine coolant to enter the engine and mix with the oil, and also into the oil pan, causing total engine failure, with no advance warning to and at the peril of the vehicle owner or operator, when the vehicle may come to a complete standstill or stop in traffic or in any operation placing the operator at risk of injury or in jeopardy of causing an accident or being subject to becoming an accident victim, plus creating the need to replace a new engine or a rebuilt engine into the vehicle. Needless to say, I had to for over $2,300 for the dealership to repair. My other 2010 Ford f150 has 180,000 miles and I have never had this issue. The leak can happen at any time and mine had 114,000 miles. This seems to be an issue and recalled because of a defective part or the way the vehicle was built. I take the Explorer to Ford for a diagnostic and they confirmed it was the internal water pump. Always had to have coolant in the vehicle because you just never know. The leak start to get worse, causing me to constantly refill the reservoir with coolant. They mentioned a lawsuit was filed in MA because of this issue. They also proceeded to tell me that is a big issue with the Explorers and certain other vehicles. I contacted the collision center and my insurance and both were stating that was from wear and tear. I filled it up and took the Explorer for an oil change and that is when the mechanic informed me that I had a small coolant leak. The vehicle was repaired at a collision center so I was concerned they didn't repair or totally missed the leak. The vehicle was involved in a minor accident in 12/22 and so I thought coolant slowly leaked out due to the accident. There are multiple class action lawsuits against Ford for this reason!.ģ/23 I noticed my coolant reservoir was empty. Ford has not offered to pay for any of the repairs even though these poorly manufactured water pumps continue to go bad on thousands of vehicles. I was quoted $2500 and my car will take a week to fix. On 7/29/23 I noticed I had a puddle in my driveway and there was definitely a leak I brought my car back to Ford where they spent an entire day diagnosing. I brought my car to Ford 7/21/23 where they did general diagnostic tests everything was negative and nothing was found and I was sent on my way. ![]() If my engine failed while driving on the highway I could have been seriously injured or killed or worse I could have seriously hurt or killed somebody else. There are numerous reports that the water pumps catastrophically fail and send coolant and metal particles into the motor causing it to also catastrophically fail. I am lucky that I caught the water pump failure when I did and it didn’t completely catastrophically fail. The water pump in an internal component of the engine. My 2015 Ford Explorer water pump has failed sending coolant all over.
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