2014 limited still taking the family on Vacations!

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Ron1978

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We’ve owned this unit for several years now, it is the best Traveling SUV we have owned. Love it!! We are 6 hrs from home in 31° weather.
 

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I feel the same about my 2014 EL LTD. I've owned it for 4 years, has 103,000 miles and I'd take it anywhere.
 
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We had 1 failure while in Vacation last year, it was the heater hose with the plastic T cracked at 120k spraying coolant in 2 of my cyclinder , easy fix and better upgrade parts. Has metal T and stainless clamps. Letting you know in case yours fails
 

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2007 EL Limited 267,000 mi I have owned since driving off the lot. I have modified from original mom car since I took it over from my wife a couple years ago. Few more mods to go. Many more explorations ahead.
 

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I agree! My 2013 EL King Ranch is my work vehicle, but we also do family vacations with it from Pennsylvania to Florida. Around 250,000 miles on it and still going strong! My favourite SUV that I've ever owned!
 

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My 2007 Ford Expedition EL is my trusted steed. Wife and I have taken multiple road trips and the Expy has never left us stranded. In the past, I was in the market for a new SUV but the reliability issues and prices deterred me from moving forward. At this point, I said to myself, "If the truck runs fine, why trade it in to deal with dealer recalls and other items?" Happy to say, "I am GOOD!"
 

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We LOVE our 2014 King Ranch! We take a yearly 1700 RT in it with 3 adults and 2 kids. Very comfortable to travel in.
 

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I share the consensus. 2007 XLT, 281K miles. Got it with about 110K miles. It's a retired law enforcement model, so it only knew PEDAL TO THE METAL or off.
It has had many issues from front drive train vacuum loss eating the integrated locking hubs. The solenoid on the same system going bad and eating the locking hubs. Eventually, I broke down and replaced all of that. So far it hasn't had any grinding sounds so that means it working.
Several starters, probably somewhere around 5 starters (seems kind of a lot, but now I'm a master at replacing them). Always remove the hardest bolt first!!!!!!!!!
Put ~170K miles on it with a pinhole leak in the radiator's passenger side on the high side (It just worked so I never fixed it until recently last year).
Leaking rear heater core connection (posted my fix in another thread).
Leaking front and rear CV shaft seals.
Drove on a broken rear CV shaft towing a 6-7,000lb travel trailer from nevada to california and back (the bearings on the outer/inner shaft connection disintegrated, so it still worked but shook bad only on deceleration.

Overall, with me fixing it through the years I know how she purrs and vibrates. When it makes a sound I know exactly what it is. I can't break down to get another car, except for the wife. She wants a minivan. So we removed the middle row middle seat and made it a SUVan.

I would keep the car and keep upgrading it as much as I can. It's paid off and I know it through and through. Although I would get an Excursion if possible.

Current upgrades:
Rear Detroit True Trac
Air intake
Hikari LED headlights (recalled because they were so bright and glare a lot, but I kept them)
Front grill
Roof Rack

Thinking on 3" spacer lift and bigger wheels/tires. Front open diff to Detroit Locker or Lunchbox locker.
 

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