If you were going to potentially be selling your vehicle soon....

[tvguy]

I never passed a state inspection after the first one (because it was a leftover 2006 with 900 miles and the dealer screwed us with state inspection being due the next month after purchase.) I replaced rotors almost every year for inspection. Out of the 5 years of ownership until my wife rolled it with 1 payment left to payoff, we didn't have 4WD for 2 of those winters. Every summer I was under the thing fixing something.

There are lemons certainly. We used Explorers for years, but transition to the Escapes in 2008. They get beat to death and just keep going. Only issue we have had was with the first ones which were hybrids. They didn't save enough in gas to justify the extra cost because most of our driving is freeway, not in town.