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2024 Ford Explorer

This year drew 19 complaints, which is too few to read anything into. A share of a small number moves too much: one owner writing about the same fault twice would swing it further than a real pattern does. So nothing is claimed about this year either way. The 10 recalls below are on file regardless, and are not affected by how many people filed complaints.

Generation 3 of the Ford Explorer, which began in 2020. Everything below compares this year against the others in that generation, not against a different car wearing the same name.

NHTSA opened a defect investigation into this model year.

Recalls for this year

• 24V685000 HYBRID PROPULSION SYSTEM Fixed free of charge.
• 24V852000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
• 25V393000 SEATS Fixed free of charge.
• 25V442000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
• 25V687000 TRAILER HITCHES Fixed free of charge.
• 26V012000 EQUIPMENT Fixed free of charge.
• 26V123000 BACK OVER PREVENTION Fixed free of charge.
• 26V159000 SEAT BELTS Fixed free of charge.

Showing 8 of 10. The rest are on NHTSA's site.

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How this was worked out

Every year of the Ford Explorer was compared against its own history rather than against other cars, which removes popularity and age from the answer — a common car draws more complaints at equal reliability, and an older one has had longer to accumulate them. A year is flagged when it drew at least 2.5× this model's median and at least 50 complaints.

This is a fault record, not a review. Nobody files a federal complaint to say the car was fine, so it shows what tends to go wrong — not whether owners liked it, and not whether it is a good car.

Source: NHTSA complaints, recalls and investigations, retrieved . Look this vehicle up directly on NHTSA's site to check anything here.

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