Other powertrain problem on the 2000 Ford Explorer
6 crashes 2 fires 2 injuries 10 of the 83 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 powertrain problem gets reported
Owners of the 2000 Ford Explorer report other powertrain problem at a median of 85,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 57,500 miles and a quarter after 117,500 miles, from 42 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 92,000 miles. It is the 2nd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 35,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 160,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 124,807 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
A spread this wide points at use rather than design. Towing, climate, service history and city mileage all move a failure like this, so the median is a weak guide to any individual car.
14% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 34,721 miles | 57,277 miles | 85,796 miles | 116,750 miles | 159,528 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, 6 a crash, 2 a fire and 2 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 $400–$4,500 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 2023, at a median of 1,200 miles, and latest on the 1996 at 130,000 miles.
By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 810; the 2000 has 83. 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.
The vehicle experienced a hard jerk, when driving at highway speeds. At times, the vehicle would jerk three to four times in a row. Dealer was notified and couldn't diagnose the problem.*jb
At 3807 miles 1st transmission found to have been sent from factory missing gear, transmission replaced. Was not told with a refurbished transmission at time of repair. 2nd transmission stuck in 3rd gear, replaced valve body gaskets and solenoid, ran for 48,000 miles, now 4th gear wrong ratio(resulting in overhaul)also overdrive band and clutches are damaged, manifold cracked, warranty over, and ford wants me to pay $2800 to fix it. Transmission has failed in an intersection twice, and on a major highway at 60 MPH. Ford taking no responsibility for obvious transmission problems in this SUV. Another ford dealer had to tell me this was a refurbished transmission and to call them on it, which they admitted to on friday june 6th, 2003. Dealer says they called ford hdq who said transmission my responsibility to fix now, and dealer will not stand behind vehicle either.*ak
2000 ford explorer transmission slipping 2nd and 3rd to overdrive. Od kicks off & will not reset. Dealer charged us for replacement of "separator plate" and "valve body". Gasket material found lodged in valve body by dealer. This is a ford design flaw, but we had to pay over $900 to get it fixed! Vehicle has only 66,000 miles on it.*ak
Also reported on the 2000 Ford Explorer
Other wheel or tire problem
Other body or interior problem
Other engine problem
Other speed control problem
Cruise control failure
Tire blowout or tread separation
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 83 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 powertrain problem happen on the 2000 Ford Explorer?
Across 42 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 85,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 57,500 miles and a quarter after 117,500 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other powertrain problem on the 2000 Ford Explorer?
83 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