Deadman
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My 2018 expedition has had a chatter on take off for the last few months. I took it in once for this and the dealer couldn't feel it, so I took it on a 3,500 mile cross country trip and it got BAD at times. When stopped and slowly accelerating it would chatter and try to act like the locker was locked and it would chirp the inside tire on turns at slow speed. So I took it In on Thursday.
They pulled the cover and found the entire carrier trashed and the E locker failed. It is NON SERVICABLE, so they are replacing the entire rear end as a unit. The best part is the rear end is backordered. They have it on emergency backorder right now and as of this morning they had no confirmed part availability date.
For background, I'm 41 years old, my hot-rodding days are behind me! This expedition give me little to no joy hammering on it, so honestly I rarely even get on it. I haul my family and young kids around and its never towed much of anything. I have a 3/4 ton for towing and I have hot-rodding vehicles, so this ones been babied. It has like 25,000 miles on it. I REALLY HOPE this is an isolated incident, but I can only imagine there will be others.
If you feel a light vibration on "very light" acceleration from a complete stop, go get this addressed before your warrantys expire. Mines got 8/125K warranty so I'm not worried, but I'm sure its not a cheap repair.
It sits in my heated garage with Epoxy coated floor and if that rear end ever leaked fluid, I'd see it on my garage floor or my work parking area as I always park in the same 2 places.
Hopefully its fixed by the 4th of July! lol.
They pulled the cover and found the entire carrier trashed and the E locker failed. It is NON SERVICABLE, so they are replacing the entire rear end as a unit. The best part is the rear end is backordered. They have it on emergency backorder right now and as of this morning they had no confirmed part availability date.
For background, I'm 41 years old, my hot-rodding days are behind me! This expedition give me little to no joy hammering on it, so honestly I rarely even get on it. I haul my family and young kids around and its never towed much of anything. I have a 3/4 ton for towing and I have hot-rodding vehicles, so this ones been babied. It has like 25,000 miles on it. I REALLY HOPE this is an isolated incident, but I can only imagine there will be others.
If you feel a light vibration on "very light" acceleration from a complete stop, go get this addressed before your warrantys expire. Mines got 8/125K warranty so I'm not worried, but I'm sure its not a cheap repair.
It sits in my heated garage with Epoxy coated floor and if that rear end ever leaked fluid, I'd see it on my garage floor or my work parking area as I always park in the same 2 places.
Hopefully its fixed by the 4th of July! lol.