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1991 Ford Explorer cruise control problems

Owners reported cruise control problems in 31 complaints for the 1991 Ford Explorer, 4% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
31 4% of this year's complaints
Crashes and fires
9 and 1
Injuries and deaths
3 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

What the data shows

These complaints mention 9 crashes, 1 fire, 3 injuries.

What owners wrote

Consumer was driving start to accelerate and try to stop the ABS anti-lock brake could not stop the car hit a wall and broke my back. Tt

March 1995 CrashInjury

My wife [xxx] was driving my 1991 ford explorer to see her son on 2-2-04( and never uses cruise control)when on hwy 161 heading north the cruise control took over and made the throttle stick wide open, the brakes would not hold and vehicle went up to about 70 before she finally turned off key, the brakes were smoking from about 1 mile of fighting to stop the thing, she finally stopped after hitting a truck in front of blackstone collision, whose owner demanded she remove it due to blocking driveway, (2) salesmen…

Reported at 79,284 miles, February 2004 CrashInjury

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