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[MikeA]

My name is Mike Ashton and I have been a proud Explorer owner since we purchased our brand new Fifth Generation Ford Explorer in 2012. Since then, we have had 6 brand new Explorers. Should have been 5 but someone ran us off the road in 2014 causing a total wreck with only 9k miles on it. That was the only non black color we ever had and it was blue. I superstitiously went back to black after the wreck. Luckily, the insurance company for the guy replaced the car with the same year model and it was brand new. There had bear few years when we cursed Ford for some Explorer defects but we stayed loyal and have tight relationship with the dealer and its service department. My wife even purchased a 2013 Edge which she had for 6 years and sold it to my son. Then she bought a new F150 and in 2022 traded it in for an Escape Titanium hybrid. Anyway, we bought our first ST a few weeks ago. Traded in our 2022 Explorer Platinum AWD hybrid. I was disappointed it wasn’t a plugin. But I love our new AWD ST with the most powerful engine we ever had in any of our Explorers!!
Unfortunately it came with a purchase credit on the Sticker for missing the 360 cameras. And Ford has no plans to add them. I used the front camera for parking in my garage. I’ll have to figure out something especially since I’ve had cancer for 8 years now and require streamlining wherever possible.
Anyway, I am happy to finally join the ST group here.

 

[23 Explorer ST]

Welcome!!


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[Cajun Heat]

My name is Mike Ashton and I have been a proud Explorer owner since we purchased our brand new Fifth Generation Ford Explorer in 2012. Since then, we have had 6 brand new Explorers. Should have been 5 but someone ran us off the road in 2014 causing a total wreck with only 9k miles on it. That was the only non black color we ever had and it was blue. I superstitiously went back to black after the wreck. Luckily, the insurance company for the guy replaced the car with the same year model and it was brand new. There had bear few years when we cursed Ford for some Explorer defects but we stayed loyal and have tight relationship with the dealer and its service department. My wife even purchased a 2013 Edge which she had for 6 years and sold it to my son. Then she bought a new F150 and in 2022 traded it in for an Escape Titanium hybrid. Anyway, we bought our first ST a few weeks ago. Traded in our 2022 Explorer Platinum AWD hybrid. I was disappointed it wasn’t a plugin. But I love our new AWD ST with the most powerful engine we ever had in any of our Explorers!!
Unfortunately it came with a purchase credit on the Sticker for missing the 360 cameras. And Ford has no plans to add them. I used the front camera for parking in my garage. I’ll have to figure out something especially since I’ve had cancer for 8 years now and require streamlining wherever possible.
Anyway, I am happy to finally join the ST group here.

Welcome Mike and congrats on your purchase.

 

[Flyman]

Welcome to the forum Mike and congrats on the ST purchase.
Keep fighting that fight sir. My wife beat it twice so far, I understand the struggle.
As far as the 360 delete question, there are some really smart members here that can answer. If anyone can figure it out, it's the members here.
Also, we need some pics of that new ride.
Cheers.

 

[2020FordRaptor]

My name is Mike Ashton and I have been a proud Explorer owner since we purchased our brand new Fifth Generation Ford Explorer in 2012. Since then, we have had 6 brand new Explorers. Should have been 5 but someone ran us off the road in 2014 causing a total wreck with only 9k miles on it. That was the only non black color we ever had and it was blue. I superstitiously went back to black after the wreck. Luckily, the insurance company for the guy replaced the car with the same year model and it was brand new. There had bear few years when we cursed Ford for some Explorer defects but we stayed loyal and have tight relationship with the dealer and its service department. My wife even purchased a 2013 Edge which she had for 6 years and sold it to my son. Then she bought a new F150 and in 2022 traded it in for an Escape Titanium hybrid. Anyway, we bought our first ST a few weeks ago. Traded in our 2022 Explorer Platinum AWD hybrid. I was disappointed it wasn’t a plugin. But I love our new AWD ST with the most powerful engine we ever had in any of our Explorers!!
Unfortunately it came with a purchase credit on the Sticker for missing the 360 cameras. And Ford has no plans to add them. I used the front camera for parking in my garage. I’ll have to figure out something especially since I’ve had cancer for 8 years now and require streamlining wherever possible.
Anyway, I am happy to finally join the ST group here.

Unfortunately there is no easy way to retrofit a front camera to be OEM like. It’s been brainstormed a lot with unfortunately no solution. Congrats on the new ride though and welcome to the forum!

 

[Blue Beast]

Welcome to the forum.