[Dan_J]

Hey all. It has been a while since I have been around. There weren't to many postings in this forum a couple years ago when I bought my 2005 Freestar. Last night my wife was driving the van home when the tranny stopped working. I had it towed to the local Ford dealer where I bought it. I am glad I bought the extended warranty but it has been almost 24 hours and the warranty company hasn't approved the claim. The manager at the service department said the gear pump shaft spun out. I am not really sure what that means yet but after Googling "Ford Transmissions". I found that there are hundreds (thousands?) of Freestar owners that are very PO'd at Ford for their transmission problems like mine. The oil has been changed to at the required intervals and the service manager even said that the oil was clean. I have never owned a foriegn car but if the warranty company gives me crap about this and doesn't pay, I am done with American made cars. GM lost me years ago. I wouldn't even consider a Crysler product. I also own a 2005 F-150 and have been reading about the spark plug issue, the injector issues, the list goes on. I have had good luck with my Fords up to this point. I am hoping all goes well. I think, based on posts in other forums I have read, that I am going to have to get rid of the Freestar. Sounds like Ford screwed the pooch on this one. By the way, my van has only 52k miles on it. I bought it with around 20k on it two years ago.
I am off to the dealer. Wish me luck!