Other body or interior problem on the 2000 Ford Explorer
5 crashes 2 fires 5 injuries 12 of the 80 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other body or interior problem gets reported
Owners of the 2000 Ford Explorer report other body or interior problem at a median of 87,500 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 52,500 miles and a quarter after 112,500 miles, from 35 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 88,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 32,500 miles at the tenth percentile to 142,500 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 108,979 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
14% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 32,540 miles | 51,485 miles | 87,000 miles | 112,990 miles | 141,519 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 5 a crash, 2 a fire and 5 an injury are mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $200–$2,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 29 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2025, at a median of 900 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 130,000 miles.
By volume the 2017 carries the most reports, with 450; the 2000 has 80. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
When I bought my 2000 ford explorer xlt 4dr the radio display on the mach rds cd/tape radio did not light up. The dealer said he fixed it and indeed it worked for about five minutes after I drove off his lot. I did some research into this problem and have discovered that it is a common problem with this type of oem radio. Supposedly, fixes are available from technicians advertising on ebay or at this internet site: http://www.shareamemory.com/radio/ (the radio pictured at this site is exactly the one I have). I am a qualified electronics technician and discovered the details of the suggested do-it-yourself repair from an internet news group. I followed the procedure to reflow the solder joints on the smt resistors and common grounds on the diplay driver board but it did not fix the problem. I quess I will be sending my radio off for "questionable" repairs from one of those ebay technicians gettting rich off of ford's poor quality radio. This is a known common problem, yet the ford motor company refuses to recognize it as such and make the neceassary repairs free of charge (or even at a reasonable cost).
2000 ford explorer 4dr AWD - the driver's seat unexpectedly went into the fully reclined position without warning while sitting in the seat. A ford dealership identified the problem as a broken bolt. Repairs cost $240.22 *ak
Went to sit in driver's seat and back support collapsed without warning. Subsequently, back support could not be locked in an upright position. Back support could have collapsed while moving at high speeds or collapsed upon a child in the backseat.*ak
Also reported on the 2000 Ford Explorer
Other wheel or tire problem
Other powertrain problem
Other engine problem
Other speed control problem
Cruise control failure
Tire blowout or tread separation
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 80 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other body or interior problem happen on the 2000 Ford Explorer?
Across 35 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 87,500 miles. A quarter were filed before 52,500 miles and a quarter after 112,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other body or interior problem on the 2000 Ford Explorer?
80 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.1 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed