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Transmission and drivetrainPart report

2007 Ford Freestar Transmission and drivetrain Problems

Complaints
37about this part
Share
58%of 64 total for the year
Median mileage
95,500miles
Trend
StableComplaints filed in the last 3 full calendar years are within 25% of the 3 years before.

NHTSA recorded 37 complaints about the transmission and drivetrain of the 2007 Ford Freestar, 58% of the 64 complaints for this model year. Where a mileage was given, the median is 95,500 miles.

Example complaints

Selected from NHTSA records; personal details are removed. They are consumer reports, not findings.

“Driven car started to sound like broken axle,took to Ford dealer george wall shrewsbury,n.j. It cost a $ 150.00 they held car for 2 days and told us that there was nothing wrong with the car. Noise kept getting worst frend for chrysler listened to it and drove it he said it was transmission problem. I had new transmission put in car at cost of $3500.00. I kept calling Ford with no luck. This vehicle was manufactured in june06,2006”

NHTSA complaint #10734521, filed 2015-07, 98,000 miles

“This is my second complaint form submission for the problem. Last fall my 2007 Ford Freestar broken down due to transmission malfunction. I was told that Ford has alot of problems with transmissions. I need to know what else I can do to reimbursed for the failure of the transmission. I was on my way to college classes when the van broken down.”

NHTSA complaint #10352349, filed 2010-08, 77,000 miles

“Takata recall while driving my van I lost to go to the bank, when I went to put my foot on the gas pedal it would not go. There was no movement. It made this funny sound under the hood. I had no warning, it shifted gears, my husband even plugged in the code reader and nothing came up. As we are looking into the issue the torke converter went out in the transmission. So now this needs to be replaced. We we're on a it street at a stop light getting ready to make a left hand turn.”

NHTSA complaint #11056992, filed 2017-12, 141,000 miles

“Traveling on the pa interstate van lost all power. Towed need complete transmission rebuild due to failure of torque converter. We were lucky we were not hurt. There was no warning at all that there was a issue. Van is a nightmare.”

NHTSA complaint #10553911, filed 2013-11, 135,000 miles

“Reported this incident as if he lived in the us, in fact this step in vancouver canada serca the border with united states, can not find who receives my complaint in canada, call transport canada trabjo in hours and nobody answers. Not commit any crime but if I complain I'm very angry estubo endanger my life driving down the highway at 55-60 miles / hour when the car stopped rolling, probe d, 3.1, r and do not perform any movement, not present any noise or no light is lit it, the motor turns on and sounds good but not more.”

NHTSA complaint #10692398, filed 2015-03, 102,221 miles

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Transmission and drivetrain: other model years

YearComplaintsShare of year
20073758%
200625471%
200567776%
200485169%

Other parts of the 2007 Ford Freestar

Vehicle speed control
10 complaints
Electrical system
5 complaints
Engine cooling
5 complaints
Engine
4 complaints
Body and structure
4 complaints
Seats
3 complaints
Suspension
2 complaints
Air bags
1 complaints
Brakes
1 complaints
Fuel system
1 complaints
Other or unknown
1 complaints
Seat belts
1 complaints

← All problems reported for the 2007 Ford Freestar

About this data. Data from NHTSA (ODI) complaints, recalls, TSBs and investigations, updated Oct 30, 2026. Complaints are unverified consumer reports and may be duplicated or inaccurate.

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