Having been the recent victim of a design flaw, I guess I'm wondering the same thing. The transmission in my wife's 2003 Explorer lost 2nd gear and overdrive, the O/D Off light blinking and eventually causing the Check Engine light to illuminate. Since it has 75,000 miles and is out of warranty, I took the advice of a friend and brought it to a local transmission shop. He echoed exactly what I found on the internet - Ford decided to save a few bucks by just boring some holes into the aluminum housing to accept some shafts, rather than bushing them with bronze. A $2200 rebuild to fix a design flaw. This apparently is a well-known and common problem on 2002-2004 Explorers, but Ford refuses to help, since they are no longer covered by warranty. I intend to file a complaint with NHTSA. My co-worker's 2000 Toyota Tacoma, however, was bought back at 150% of what it was worth on it's best day because the frame rotted out, long after the warranty ran out. I'm still wondering why that wasn't a recall. Bill --------------------------------------------------- Technet Mail List provided as a service by IPC using LISTSERV 15.0 To unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the BODY (NOT the subject field): SIGNOFF Technet To temporarily halt or (re-start) delivery of Technet send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet NOMAIL or (MAIL) To receive ONE mailing per day of all the posts: send e-mail to [log in to unmask]: SET Technet Digest Search the archives of previous posts at: http://listserv.ipc.org/archives Please visit IPC web site http://www.ipc.org/contentpage.asp?Pageid=4.3.16 for additional information, or contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-615-7100 ext.2815 -----------------------------------------------------