2018 Ford Explorer Fuel system Problems

“When starting vehicle, the inside of my vehicle fills with a strong smell of gas. This is an ongoing and reoccurring issue. I believe it may be the cause of my 6 year olds child's frequent headaches and bouts with nausea that began at the same time I started noticing the gas smell issue.”

“Strong smell of exhaust and rotten eggs entered the cabin 5 times during a 4 hour road trip during acceleration and at higher speeds. The smell caused headaches and nausea. The windows had to be opened to relieve the smell. The issue was reported to the Ford dealership on the next possible business day after occurring for review in a scheduled maintenance within 2 weeks of that date. Numerous TSB (for previous model years 2011-2017) and complaints (for model years including 2018) for this same problem can be found in online searches. …”

“The gas gauge isn’t reading correctly. I’m a mother of a one year old son and I didn’t noticed that my car was reading wrong until I put in gas and it didn’t give me the correct reading. I have spoken to many people who owns a Ford Explorer and they have said the same thing. I don’t even know where to start on why it wouldn’t work. The problem has been reported and I didn’t get a warning. It just stopped reading correctly. There’s nothing on my dashboard, no sign or anything. I am confused.”

“I Drove Explorer directly to Mayo Clinic in MN shorty after the purchase. It would smell like sulpher at times, gasoline, exhaust and I was getting very poor fuel economy. Averaging 17-2. I got extremely sick and confused and had severe headaches and nausea, vertigo, congnitive impairments, burning eyes and all I wanted to do was sleep. I felt fluish and I got confused while going to Mayo for testing. Well, I didn’t make it to my appointment, I couldn’t even figure out how to book a hotel or get cash. …”

“We purchased a brand new 2018 Ford Explorer in september of 2018. Around october/november 2018 I started having a lot of dizzy spells and panicked attacks while I was driving the Explorer. I was in and out of drs weekly sometimes more than weekly for these episodes. Drs thought it was anxiety so would increase medications, or change medications and I continued with same symptoms. I drove the Explorer numerous times a day as I have kids and would feel this way 90% of my day every day. …”