Persistent emissions smell in cabin causing headaches for the driver. roesche ford in elmhurst illinois conducted warranty work which consisted of "reprogramming" the car. the fix did not work and roesch filed an appel to ford - who is denying liability and claiming the "reprogramming" is the fix. i have also filed a claim with ford cas24714279. this is the exact same problem the police interceptor explorers is having and is well documented - ford has even set up a hotline for the police - but ignore the individual owner.
Gas smell occur in the cabin. makes me headache and shick
Fume smell coming from vehicle while moving, can smell both inside and outside of car! seems like smell is more in front of car then in back once car is parked and i get out of car. i am feeling very unwell while driving; nausea, dizziness, stingy eyes and blurry vision. it is happening regardless of the heating/air being on/off. i have for days needed to drive with all windows down. my children feel sick as well. my husband can smell it, but this far has not been feeling sick from it. this happens no matter if i am driving city/highway/stationary/in motion, all the time. we have been feeling sick for a while but the smell is within the last week.
While stationary, or sitting in vehicle while idling, carbon monoxide is detected in the cabin and i have been falling asleep and staying tired for rest of the day. this has been going on in the 2 months that i have had the new suv. i suspected after i was told by a friend that this has been reported by sheriffs. i plugged in my home detector to check if that were the case. i am no longer idling without windows open if possible due to weather.
I stopped at traffic light, i heard a strange sound, and the airbag light came on. i press the gas gas to cross intersection and car would only go 3 miles an hour, i managed to turn into side street, and turned car off. when i restarted car and i was able to accelerate and proceeded to drive to my destination, when i stopped at another red light it happened again and then engine light came on. i then turned off car and restated to find all warning lights off. i then drove to auto nation ford dealership. they diagnosed with a throttle problem. when checking the internet i see a lot of people have had this same problem, it could have bee a very dangerous situation since this happened st an intersection.
Moving down a highway when with a sudden shutter and then a loud bang the car immediately lost power with blinding smoke in and around the car. made it to the side of the road and had fire lapping up the drivers side rocker panel from under the car. transfer case exploded with such force it damaged the transmission. occurred at 41,000 miles on a three year old vechicle.
I was driving along at about 55 mph with the cruise control activated. the pedals were not in the right locations so i decided to adjust them to a higher position with the button on the side of the steering column. when i did the adjustment, the engine went into a full throttle mode and would not let up. i pushed down on the brakes hard and vehicle slowed down and the engine returned to normal. when i took my foot off the brake the engine immediately went full throttle again and then back down again when i pushed the brake pedal down hard. this cycle continued even though i shut off the cruise control and tried putting the shifter in neutral. i was final able to pull over to the side of the road and shut the engine off. i restarted the engine after a few minutes and everything seemed to work normally. this was a very dangerous and scary event. i am afraid to drive this vehicle or have my wife drive it. i reported it to ford but have not heard back from them at this time.
One morning, i began to smell a sulfur or gas-like smell inside the car. i thought nothing of it but it persisted from 5:00 a.m. -9:00 a.m. my 7 year old son even smelled it when entering the car. after dropping him off at school i drove to dealership to get it inspected. during that drive, with the windows cracked, i began to feel a dull headache, dizziness and muscle weakness. once i dropped my car off for inspection and was out of the car i didn't feel any better and my headache and weakness got worse. my wife took me to the er out of precaution and after bloodwork was taken, i was confirmed to have had carbon monoxide poisoning. i am a non-smoker and my cohb levels were twice that of a non-smoker : 3.8% it was raining out so i could not unrolli windows as much as i wanted to. i was not driving with the a/c on, was not sitting idle. minimum speed was 5-10 mph and max speed was 70 mph ford identified the smell as a failing ptu but claimed there was no co present after driving ...
On 3/21/19 i was driving when a car stopped in front of me and i hit them. my airbag went off and was smoking black smoke. there was also a fire, about 1.5 ft tall that appeared from the passenger side of the hood. i sat in shock until someone told me to get out. i got out and grabbed my 4 year old daughter. she was in a car seat and still secured after the accident. thankfully we were not seriously injured. we sat watching my car quickly engulf in flames. by the time the fire department came the car was pretty much all burned. i lost a lot of valuable and sentimental personal belongings in my car which insurance does not cover the cost of. it was a terrifying experience to go through for my daughter and i. i do not believe that a minor accident should cause a fire like this. i have reached out for ford multiple times and they will not investigate which i find extremely frustrating. i would like to prevent this horrible thing happening to someone else. although we were not injured it could have been a lot worse, and even deadly.
9/29/18: remote start stopped working and car sputtered when starting. 10/14/18: after manually starting with push-button, white smoke filled my garage and car with 3 children. explorer towed to brandon ford dealership that day which happened to be a sunday. as of today, i still don't have my explorer back. i was informed that fluid got into the cylinder and the cylinder needs to be replaced. unfortunately there is a backlog on this particular part. as i approach the 5th week with this loaner vehicle, i am wondering if there is more to the problem or if there is anything that anyone can do to help me get resolution.
I began to notice a strong gas fume smell in the cab while driving. i have since taken the vehicle to a ford dealership for repairs. the 'recall' repair for co concerns did nothing. i currently still have the strong smell inside cab.
When done pumping fuel, fuel leaks out of the filler door and gas collects around the hole and runs down the outside panel of the vehicle
Tl* the contact owns a 2016 ford explorer. after the contact's wife had been driving the vehicle for approximately two weeks, an abnormal odor was detected coming from the vehicle. the contact's wife became ill and medical attention was required. the contact was informed that his wife had carbon monoxide poisoning at four times the normal limit. the contact was informed by the medical doctor that the vehicle should not be driven. the vehicle was towed to the contact's residence. the vehicle was not taken to a dealer to be diagnosed or repaired. the manufacturer was not notified of the failure. the failure mileage was approximately 79,000.
2016 ford explorer. when putting car in reverse there is a loud thud then when putting it in drive another loud thud that actually sounds like i hit something. then when trying to give it gas it will act as if it is in neutral. the gas is pressed but won't go and engine will just rev. then it will start cutting out as if it is going to die. i can only get up to about 30 mph during this time. after driving for a short time it's like it warms up and will quit. this problem is intermittent and i can go a week or two without it happening at all. and when it does happen it will only happen in the morning after the car has been sitting all night. i started pressing on the gas several times before starting (push button) and then before putting in gear will press on the gas several times and rev the engine and the cutting out symptoms will not happen however the thud noise happens intermittently still.
I bought the 2016 ford explorer xlt last week from a ford dealer, i drove it home which is 35-40 minutes away from the ford dealership and both my wife and i had severe headache. there was an odor inside the cabin which was causing the headache/nausea. we couldnt explain why the odor was there and when we researched online, we were shocked to find that the ford explorer had the carbon monoxide leak issue. we are not able to drive our car for more than 15-20 minutes without getting a headache.