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#11 of 18 As Amy Winehouse would say. . . . by cocohead Jul 21, 2008 (10:49 am)
NO, NO NO!!!!!!!!
#12 of 18 Freestar Seating by old89lsc Jul 26, 2008 (5:40 am)
My family has 4 children, and we currently own a 2001 Windstar. It has been very reliable but now has 100,000 miles on it. Our two youngest are twins, 2 yrs old, and sit in latched car seats in the middle captain chairs of our current van. The older two climb into the third row, going around the captain chairs, and sit in booster seats. Our twins are occasionally prone to do what 2 yr olds are prone to do: fight. We have friends with a van in this configuration, but had to put one of their twins in the back row and one in the middle. Since that is so much less convenient when they fall asleep or even in helping them get buckled in, it is still our preference to keep them in the second row. As such, we need some space between their car seats to prevent world war 3 when traveling.   I have seen some affordable Freestars, but they almost always have a middle bench seat. I have found used captain chairs available, but not having been inside a Freestar I am not sure that I can swap the bench for them.   Does anyone know if you can swap out the middle bench for captain chairs?   If not, how much spacing is there between the car seat positions in the middle bench?
#13 of 18 Re: Would you recommend purchasing the Freestar? [dudette3] by coltonamt Aug 07, 2008 (10:35 am)
Replying to: dudette3 (May 14, 2006 7:06 am) Don't do it unless you have stock in or own a transmission shop.
#14 of 18 Love my Freestar by fordexpo Jan 24, 2009 (5:16 pm)
I have been buying and selling vehicles for years on the side now. I started looking at Windstars with around 120,000 miles on them, These things are Ford Taurus's under them. I love to read al of the problems in the forums. Every vehicle made has been critisized as Junk within 30 or 40,000 miles including Honda, Toyota, Ford, Chevy and so on in these forums. I am really amazed how poorly people maintain cars,trucks and mini vans and then complain. Well I sure make good money if I can get them before the poor maintainace is so bad that they are not worth crap. Just finished cleaning and and selling another Winstar with 149,000 miles on it and outside of replacing the front wheel bearing and some filter and fluid changes, It was pretty good vehicle and I even guarnateed it to the person buying it. Now I have a 04 FreeStar SEL loaded 123K miles and have decided to keep it with the 4.2 V_6, same engine in the F-150? I also look real close at the engine and transmission because poor maintianance is easy to see within a few minutes of looking under the hood and bottom side of any vehicle. As far as the folks that seem to have car problems at 30K miles, You will never own a good car of any brand I am sure. Replies to this message: nadineb (Apr 28, 2009 1:04 pm) tbrown61 (May 07, 2009 6:01 pm) susanhai (Jun 12, 2009 3:34 pm)
#15 of 18 Re: Love my Freestar [fordexpo] by nadineb Apr 28, 2009 (1:04 pm)
Replying to: fordexpo (Jan 24, 2009 5:16 pm) You can buy my Freestar for close to what I paid for it if you promise to never sell it to anyone and never have children riding in it. There is no way I will ever drive this vehicle again. It is a disaster waiting to happen. Replies to this message: tbrown61 (May 07, 2009 6:01 pm)
#16 of 18 Re: Love my Freestar [nadineb] by tbrown61 May 07, 2009 (6:01 pm)
Replying to: nadineb (Apr 28, 2009 1:04 pm) I have a freestar for cheap, you buy it and ill fill the tank, and wave bye bye
#17 of 18 Freestar need to come off the roadways by nadineb Jun 09, 2009 (9:03 pm)
These vehicles need to be retired off our nations roadways for everyone's safety. Rear end collisions waiting to happen.
#18 of 18 Re: Love my Freestar [fordexpo] by susanhai Jun 12, 2009 (3:34 pm)
Replying to: fordexpo (Jan 24, 2009 5:16 pm) Shoot, you can have mine too! I am what my husband calls "anal " about my car maintenance.... I take excellent care of my autos and drive almost all of them past the 250,000 mile mark. You must have gotten ford's version of a lemon... a car that works with no problems! My transmission went out without warning at 59,000. I wouldn't wish this P O S on anyone else.

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