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No. This was in regular drive mode when I noticed it. I then tried every other drive mode and it was happening in every mode. This is not an aggressive downshift (sport mode). This was a HARD downshift while decelerating every time.

This feels more like your being rear ended as your coming to a stop (downshifting).

I talked to ford today. Looks like they are putting a new transmission in ours as well. Hope to get it back soon. We are already booked for ST school at the end of June in Utah.

Update New valve body came in damaged. A new one won’t be available until March 20th. That will be a total of 45 days in the shop for a valve body replacement.

So.....Ford contacted me today and said the part will be shipped next Thursday. They also said there were 51 of the same valve bodies on order for other people. That’s it for now. That will put the total time in the ford shop at over 3 weeks. I hope that part will solve the issue. We will see.

Hello All I’m having some issues on the explorer. We bought it in November 2019. Been perfect for 2400 miles. It’s started downshifting hard (like ready to fall out hard) between 6th and 5th. Took it to ford and the conclusion is a bad valve body in the transmission. Ford has had it for 10...