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2011 Ford Explorer stability control problems

Owners reported stability control problems in 28 complaints for the 2011 Ford Explorer, 2% of the complaints on file.

At a glance

Complaints
28 2% of this year's complaints
Typical mileage
38,000 miles 26 complaints with mileage
Crashes and fires
1 and 0
Injuries and deaths
0 and 0

Source: NHTSA owner complaints

When stability control problems show up

Stability control complaints by mileage, 2011 Ford Explorer Complaints by odometer reading in 20,000-mile steps. The median is about 38,000 miles. 0k to 20k miles: 8 complaints 20k to 40k miles: 5 complaints 40k to 60k miles: 6 complaints 60k to 80k miles: 2 complaints 80k to 100k miles: 3 complaints 100k to 120k miles: 1 complaints 120k to 140k miles: 0 complaints 140k to 160k miles: 0 complaints 160k to 180k miles: 1 complaints 180k to 200k miles: 0 complaints 200k+ miles: 0 complaints 040k80k120k160k200k miles Typical: 38,000 miles
Based on 26 complaints that include mileage. 73% 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 miles8
20k to 40k miles5
40k to 60k miles6
60k to 80k miles2
80k to 100k miles3
100k to 120k miles1
120k to 140k miles0
140k to 160k miles0
160k to 180k miles1
180k to 200k miles0
200k+ miles0

What the data shows

Of the 26 stability control complaints that report mileage, the median is about 38,000 miles, and 73% were reported before 60,000 miles.

These complaints mention 1 crash.

What owners wrote

2011 ford explorer was just returned two weeks ago for national recall on electronic power steering control module failure. On august 21st at 9:30 am my wife was approaching a red light. She applied the brakes and felt an immediate power loss issue with the breaks. She impacted the vehicle in front of her around 15 MPH. Air bags were not deployed at time of accident. She did noticed the terrain management failure light was illuminated at time of impact.

Reported at 46,000 miles, August 2014 Crash

This is the 4th time my vehicle has lost its power steering. I was driving in traffic at about 45 MPH and the power steering. I have to find a place on the side of the highway to pull over and turn my car off and wait a while then restart it and sometimes it fixes the problem and sometimes it doesn't. There is only a matter of time that this will happen going at a higher rate of speed and cause injury or worse! Ford needs to recall this asap!

Reported at 66,800 miles, May 2014

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