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2003 Ford Excursion Steering problems

Owners have filed 8 complaints about the 2003 Ford Excursion's steering with NHTSA - 5% of all its complaints, most recently on May 26, 2020. They describe 1 crash, 0 fires and 0 injuries. Loss of power steering, stiff or loose steering, wandering, column and rack problems.

Complaints
8
Recalls
0
Crashes
1
Fires
0
Injuries
0
Deaths
0

Steering complaints

Steering

The vehicle has a steering issue. It will pull to the right mostly but occasionally to the left. So you spend the entire drive correcting the wheel to try to keep the vehicle in the road. Towing is impossible with this issue because it causes the trailer to go in to a snaking motion because of the constant steering correction. This occurs when ever the car is in motion. *Tr

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 11326093
Steering

Tl* the contact owns a 2003 ford excursion. While reversing the vehicle, the steering wheel failed to operate. The contact noticed that the steering wheel bolts were fractured. The dealer and manufacturer were not notified of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 235,000.

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 11096496
Steering

I was turning my ford excursion and heard a loud "pop!" My steering wheel appeared to "break" and the vehicle kept rolling forward. Had I been anywhere else, like traffic, I could have killed someone or myself. *Tr

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 10311453
SteeringBrakes

Tl*the contact owns a 2003 ford excursion. The contact stated that the vehicle lost its power steering and the brakes failed. The failures have occurred twice. While driving at an unknown speed on the highway, the master cylinder and the hydro boost failed while the brakes were being applied. This forced the master cylinder into the engine compartment. The dealer and manufacturer have not yet been notified. The contact is an afc certified technician and replaced the components himself. The current mileage was 64,000 and failure mileage was 60,000.

Filed Incident Steering · Service brakes, hydraulicNHTSA 10197911
Steering

2003 Ford expedition eddie bauer: when executing low speed turns in either direction, there is a feeling that the tires are rubbing the insides of the wheel wells. There is a binding or grinding feeling in the steering wheel and noise of such can be heard most of the time. As I have seen on previous reports, there is also the same chatter and shudder and vibrations also. We took it in to service dept and after 2 days they report that they could not find nor reproduce what we were stating. After a technician...

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took a test drive with my husband, the technician did notice a humming sound coming from the rear of the vehicle. He said that they have had several other complaints regarding the rear humming and that they would need to replace the rear end. (All of this occurring at 29,000 miles. After the rear end was replaced, the above mentioned chatter, shudder, binding, grinding and vibrations were gone. However...Now at 31,000 miles they are all back and progressively getting worse. We will again, return the vehicle for repairs and will update on the matter. *Nm

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 10143020
Steering

Dt: the vehicle's steering is to hard to control because there was so much slack in the steering wheel. The consumer took the vehicle to the dealer 4 times. *Jb

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 10126342
SteeringCrash

We received a rental vehicle from hertz, it was a 2003 ford excursion. When the woman dropped it off she told my husband to be careful, it pulls to the right. Last week my husband was driving on a straight road about 40 mph, when it started pulling to the right, he applied the brakes and he tried to steer to the left but it pulled to the right even more and he ended up in a ditch, after he got out it went through a steel fence and ended in a cow pasture. Something caused it to swerve to the right and cause this accident. The body shop said there is too much damage to tell what could of caused it. *La

Filed Incident SteeringNHTSA 10045708
SteeringBrakesEngine & cooling

2003 Ford excursion 6.0 Triton diesel engine stalls (both high and low speeds), brakes and steering lock up.*Ak

Filed Incident Steering · Service brakes, hydraulic · Engine and engine coolingNHTSA 10025689

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