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2009 Ford Explorer Electrical problems

Owners have filed 2 complaints about the 2009 Ford Explorer's electrical system with NHTSA - 6% of all its complaints, most recently on November 28, 2016. Dead batteries, warning lights, wiring, alternators, infotainment and electronic module failures.

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Electrical complaints

Electrical systemDriver assistanceBrakes

Ford: my 2009 ford explorer eddie bauer v6 exhibits an intermittent fault/alarm with the rsc system while driving on public roads (street, freeway, highway). All the instances occurred had been properly documented and discussed with the local ford dealer in repeated visits that should be documented on their books. In all instances the alarm is *** not *** registered in the non-volatile memory (nvm) portion of the on board computer (as evidenced by dealer records to me). This should be investigated by ford and...

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this agency. Date below is the latest instance of this event. It had been observed, recorded and discussed with ford in at least 5 other times. On all instances but one, the alarm (visual and sound chime) repeats for at least 2 minutes within an interval of 5 minutes and for as long as the car is driven. This is very annoying and prone to distraction of the driver. There is no known override button to disarm the alarm/annunciation. At one instance I had my own obd2 device connected to the obd2 port to capture these events when it happened. This third party divide did not register a fault code. I find this (but mainly the official dealer technical experts lack of recorded fault code) highly disturbing giving the implication that a failure of the roll-stability-control (rsc) can impart to the vehicle and its occupants. *Tr

Filed Incident Electrical system · Electronic stability control (ESC) · Service brakesNHTSA 10928391
SuspensionElectrical systemBody, doors & structure

Please keep anonymous and referenced under j9el1, mc32sz, kyh2u as the person or persons responsible for the vehicle with rear license plate tag# obx90432 may be an isis/isil member leader and or both and has sexually assayed and abused me since 1993. Her car has no vin number on it because it has been sawed off. I checked myself. She works at diamond shoals restaurant in buxton, nc 27920 and she breaks into my home at night when I'm sleeping. She is associated with devil worshiping, drinking blood, and she's a...

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well known iv drug user in dare county and has been since 1977. She violates my privacy and civil rights every day and constantly harasses me and my family. She drives a greenish blue ford explorer that's probably been wrecked numerous times and put back together and taken apart to sell its parts for drug money several times. I have written complaints to the dept of education, the dept of justice, the dept of health and human services, the dept of homeland security and the dept of housing and urban development and sherri thomas breaks boundaries with her vehicle in the road every day under the privacy act of 1974 5u.S.C. 552A, the freedom of information act 5u.S.C. 552, And 34 c.F.R 5b.9(B)

Filed Incident Suspension · Electrical system · StructureNHTSA 10910631

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