NHTSA Complaint #10310669 — 2004 FORD EXPLORER

PURCHASED A 2004 FORD EXPLORER IN 2006, NOTICED AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS THAT WHEN PUT THE CAR IN REVERSE WOULD DELAY A FEW SECONDS AND THEN IT WOULD MAKE A CLUNK SOUND AND THEN SPEED INTO REVERSE, THAT WAS AT ABOUT 50,000 MILES WHEN PURCHASED. IN APRIL OF 2009 CAR WOULD NOT GO INTO REVERSE, HAD A TRANSMISSION REBUILD. IT IS NOW LESS THEN A YEAR SINCE REBUILD AND IT IS STARTING TO SHIFT HARD AGAIN AND WHILE AT A STOP LIGHT TODAY WHEN I HAD MY ON THE BRAKE IT MADE A CLUNK SOUND AND JUMPED FORWARD? GOOD THING NO OTHER CAR WAS IN FRONT OF ME, I CHECKED MY REAR VIEW MIRROR AND THERE WAS NO CAR BEHIND ME, SO I WAS NOT HIT. ALSO CAR IS STARTING TO DELAY WHEN AT A STOPPED POSITION TO START DRIVING THE CAR HESITATES TO GO INTO GEAR. DOES IT TAKE SOMEONE TO GET SERIOUSLY INJURED OR DIE BEFORE THIS PROBLEM IS GOING TO BE RESOLVED BY AN OBVIOUS MANUFACTURER ERROR???? I HAVE TWO CHILDREN THAT GET DRIVEN AROUND ON A REGULAR BASIS AND I AM NOW WORRIED THAT SOMETHING IS GOING TO HAPPEN. I AM TAKING MY FORD BACK IN TO HAVE THE TRANSMISSION GUY THAT REPAIRED IT LOOK AT THE VEHICLE. UHAUL WILL NOT LET ANY FORD EXPLORERS TOW THEIR PRODUCTS. *TR