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2011 Ford Explorer air bags problems

Owners reported air bags problems in 44 complaints for the 2011 Ford Explorer, 3% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
44 3% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
67,000 miles 28 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
3 and 0
Injuries and deaths
2 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When air bags problems show up

Air bags complaints by mileage, 2011 Ford Explorer Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 67,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 2 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 3 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 5 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 8 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 6 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 1 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 2 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 1 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 0 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 67,000 miles
Based on 28 complaints that include mileage. 36% were reported before 60,000 miles. The amber marker shows the median: half of these complaints happened before that mileage.
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MileageComplaints
0k to 20k miles2
20k to 40k miles3
40k to 60k miles5
60k to 80k miles8
80k to 100k miles6
100k to 120k miles1
120k to 140k miles2
140k to 160k miles1
160k to 180k miles0
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 28 air bags complaints that report mileage, the median is about 66,000 miles, and 36% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 3 crashes, 2 injuries.

What owners wrote

I pulled into my driveway at a slow rate of speed, as I was braking the car was not stopping, as I pressed on the brake pedal it collapsed all the way to the floor but the brakes did not engage, just before the car hit the garage door which was directly in front of me the right front brake engaged, fully, stopping the right front tire only, the car pulled to the right and instead of hitting the garage door it struck a concrete column to the immediate right of the garage door.

Reported at 6,059 miles, July 2011 CrashInjury

I began experiencing problems with the steering wheel mounted controls while driving, which were intermittent. First, the volume button failed and then cruise control functions failed. The cruise control would sometimes cancel on its own, causing a sudden unexplained loss of speed while I thought it was engaged. The "resume" and "cancel" button functions also swapped. "resume" would cancel the cruise control and "cancel" would resume cruise.

Reported at 43,000 miles, October 2015

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