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Transmission · 1 owner report

Complete transmission failure on the 2022 Ford Explorer

Only 0 reports for this mode came with an odometer reading, which is too few for percentiles to mean anything. The page is here because someone linked to it; treat the figures as anecdotes, and see the full report for this year instead.

Reports of this failure 1
With an odometer reading 0
Reports per 1,000 built 0.0 per 1,000
Filed below 36,000 miles 0%
Mention a crash, fire or injury 0
Typical repair $2,800–$8,000
What it means when it happens Critical
Rank among this year's problems 54th

When complete transmission failure gets reported

There are 1 report of complete transmission failure on the 2022 Ford Explorer. That is too few to place the failure on the odometer with any confidence.

It is the 54th most-reported problem on this model year.

None of these reports included an odometer reading, so there is no mileage distribution to show. NHTSA's form does not require the field.

What happens, and what it costs

Putting it right typically runs $2,800–$8,000 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.

This mode is classified as critical, which means a failure can leave the car unable to stop, steer, or stay out of the way of traffic. It is weighted accordingly in the risk score.

The same failure on other years

The same failure is reported on 20 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2013, at a median of 100 miles, and latest on the 2001 at 125,000 miles.

By volume the 2002 carries the most reports, with 286; the 2022 has 0. 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.

Median
  1. 1996 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure
    no odometer readings given
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  2. 1997 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 78k
  3. 1998 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  4. 1999 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 83k
  5. 2000 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 66k
  6. 2001 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 126k
  7. 2002 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 83k
  8. 2003 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 94k
  9. 2004 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 75k
  10. 2005 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 65k
  11. 2006 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 64k
  12. 2007 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 85k
  13. 2008 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 100k
  14. 2009 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  15. 2010 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 67k
  16. 2013 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 112
  17. 2014 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 98k
  18. 2015 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 89k
  19. 2016 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 70k
  20. 2017 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 50k
  21. 2018 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 40k
  22. 2019 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 84k
  23. 2020 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 37k
  24. 2021 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 61k
  25. 2022 (this one)
    no odometer readings given
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  26. 2023 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure 50k
  27. 2024 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  28. 2025 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure
    no odometer readings given
    —
  29. 2026 Ford Explorer complete transmission failure
    no odometer readings given
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Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens

Also reported on the 2022 Ford Explorer

Other powertrain problem

42 reports median 18k

Other driver assistance problem

25 reports median 18k

Other electrical problem

21 reports median 22k

Backup camera failure

20 reports median 41k

Other engine problem

19 reports median 139k

Sunroof failure or glass breakage

16 reports median 70k

How far this goes

This page is kept out of search results because 1 report is not enough to publish percentiles from. It stays reachable because somebody looking at this exact car would rather see the reports than be told there are none.

Complaints are voluntary, so 1 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.

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