I had my 2000 Ford Explorer Sport in the garage in July. After almost $1500 in repairs,maintenence and new tires, turns out the check engine light was on because of a faulty O2 sensor. The receipt says something like found O2 sensors and valve to be bad, neccesary to replace both...now my problem is this...the light is back on. I had Autozone run a diagnostics on it and the results were "system too lean bank one" and "system too lean bank 2". What does that mean? They guy at autozone said it might be the O2 sensor. But left it at that...might... How many O2 sensors does my truck have???? And is it possible that the one(s) they replaced in July could have gone sour so soon? I really don't have the money or the patience at this time to keep messing around with this vehicle and if it weren't for the 4 more years I have to pay on it, I would trade it in in a heartbeat. Also, when I start the truck, it starts up fine most of the time but right after it starts it idles high for a second before calming down...so instead of going "vrooom"..it starts up like "vrooooOOOOM" It's almost as if the key were being held back too long regardless as to how soon you let go. There's one more problem....when it is cold out (which it's been getting down there in temprature as I am from central NY) sometimes it won't stay started. I had this problem when I first got the vehicle and they fixed something called an IAC component(?) and it was fine after that. What it seems to be doing is idling down to 1 on the RPMs then stalling out....(please, bear with me, I'm a girl and don't know much about cars other than where to put the gas and windshield fluid ) I'm realy quite fed up with this truck and am starting to feel like they tricked me into buying it because 1. I'm a girl and 2. they needed to get rid of it. Besides setting it on fire and pushing it off a cliff...any advice would be helpful. Thanks in advance...Jessie2blue
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17 years ago