Hi Scotty, I watched one of your videos recently where you said that the old V6 Ford Explorers didn’t last and would be falling apart after 125,000 miles. My Ford Explorer has 165,000 miles on it and still runs like a top. It’s got plenty of leaks lol, but runs and shifts great. I was wondering why you think that they won’t last. Thanks.
The early (I believe as early as 1996 and up to about 2004ish) 4.0 SOHC’s had very poor timing chain guides. They would fail and be very expensive to replace, because the engine has to be removed and those engines have 4 timing chains. Post 2004 models are better. I have an 07 Ranger with this engine and 115,000 miles. It runs great still. Some people with the post 03/04 4.0’s get 300,000 miles out of them. Some don’t.
There be another guy who said the same thing about kia's. To reiterate what everyone be saying. Your sample size is 1, out of the gross majority, you are on the outer edge of that Bell curve. Congrats on getting lucky, most people are not so. But yeah being also ford "not built tough" also factors in. Sadly american cars are not made like they are use to. Using cheap Chinese crap and all that don't help either be it wiring or plastics.
Post 03, I wouldn’t be concerned with.
That isn't really much there are so many factors involved for example Scotty says Nissan CVTs fall apart at 100k miles but some are at 130k miles on the original transmission, %30 more.
Same with you, %30 more. That isn't much. Maybe you took care of it better, maybe its newer, maybe its highway miles...
Now if you get 300k miles out of it then sure come back and try to disprove Scotty's experience on the Ford Explorer.
Automatic transmissions, yes. But the manuals were decent.
@james-st-clair
I don't know what model year he is talking about but it only comes with the automatic since 2003.