Time to revive this thread. After almost a year, Ford has not provided any solution to the problem we are having. When we first start our expedition in the morning, we experience the issue. It happens intermittently (not on every cold start), and so is hard to reproduce reliably.
My wife puts her foot on the brake, starts the Expedition, moves the shifter to reverse (or drive depending on which direction she is parked) starts down the driveway by lifting off of the brake pedal. When she tries to re apply the brake at the end of the driveway, it feels as if the power braking system has lost vacuum to the booster and is extremely hard to stop before the vehicle runs into the road (and traffic b/c we live on a busy street). Based on my previous experience with vehicles, it seemed like this might be a bad vacuum check valve that is releasing the vacuum in the booster after it sits over night. I paid out of pocket to have a local mechanic replace the check valve (Ford OEM) and the very next morning we had the same problem again.
I took it 100 miles to a Ford Dealer in Albuquerque. They service writer (so therefore scumbag) told me he has seen this problem before and a simple computer update will fix it. I asked him to explain to me how the computer controls the vacuum going to the brake booster and he could not. I dropped the issue as to not piss him off. He took the vehicle and had the update applied. He assured me again that it would fix the problem. I drove the expedition another 100 miles home and it happened to my wife again this morning.
I'm not sure what I should do now because I don't want to take it back only to have them tell me that there is no issue (or that they couldn't reproduce it) and waste another trip.
My wife puts her foot on the brake, starts the Expedition, moves the shifter to reverse (or drive depending on which direction she is parked) starts down the driveway by lifting off of the brake pedal. When she tries to re apply the brake at the end of the driveway, it feels as if the power braking system has lost vacuum to the booster and is extremely hard to stop before the vehicle runs into the road (and traffic b/c we live on a busy street). Based on my previous experience with vehicles, it seemed like this might be a bad vacuum check valve that is releasing the vacuum in the booster after it sits over night. I paid out of pocket to have a local mechanic replace the check valve (Ford OEM) and the very next morning we had the same problem again.
I took it 100 miles to a Ford Dealer in Albuquerque. They service writer (so therefore scumbag) told me he has seen this problem before and a simple computer update will fix it. I asked him to explain to me how the computer controls the vacuum going to the brake booster and he could not. I dropped the issue as to not piss him off. He took the vehicle and had the update applied. He assured me again that it would fix the problem. I drove the expedition another 100 miles home and it happened to my wife again this morning.
I'm not sure what I should do now because I don't want to take it back only to have them tell me that there is no issue (or that they couldn't reproduce it) and waste another trip.