Ford Galaxy 2007

[Giddy01]

Anyone had any issues with one of the above.

Ours has been in and out of the garage for many bits and pieces to be replaced in the two yers we have owned it. All done under warranty, but still annoying.

Latest thing is clutch slipping around 2-2500 rpm after only having covered 29k miles.

Been quoted £1072 from Ford for a replacement.

We are not happy at all as we have only towed twice with the car, but as soon as they saw a towbar on the car, they blamed this.

 

[Mike_5041108]

Julian,

Sadly your story is very familiar to me! I too have an '07 Galaxy. When everything thing works (very rare), it is a fantastic long distance cruiser and towcar. Unfortunately, mine has had umpteen problems, compounded by the abysmal service received from my Ford dealer. I thought having previously owned a Laguna, things could only get more reliable. Wrong!! As I am now out of warranty, I am terrified of a huge bill on the horizon, so I have just signed up for a new Hyundai Santa Fe. Not due for delivery 'till the end of March, so I'm nervous as a kitten 'till it actually gets here. A sad way to be with a car less than three years old.

 

[Garfield]

we have a 56 reg S-max with similar poor reliability, apparently one of the reasons Ford broke with VW was the poor reliability of the VW built old shape Galaxy (we had a Sharan) but they have filled the new car with technology that is hopelessly unfit for purpose ours has spent about 4 weeks in the garage in the 3 yrs we have had it, this aside the car ticks all the boxes for us and we really like it.

 

[hollypop1]

We have an 08 2.2 diesel one of my Brothers has 08 2.0 diesel auto. We both tow regularly and no problems yet. So for us the Galaxy is a great 7 seat load lugger, thanks.

 

[Icemaker]

we have a 2009 2.0 tdci ghia galaxy which i purchased ex demo and its been absolutely faultless. oh ok the little green led light on the auto dimming mirror has failed and the replacement has done the same but the mirror is a third party item and it does still work.

i bought the car with 10.000 miles on the clock and ive put another 8 thousand on it mostly with the van on tow to and from france plus loads of 24 mile commutes to work and back.

i really can not fault the car and the same can be said of our old s max which allso proved totally reliable over the 24.000 miles we had it.

 

[brenda_374246826]

Hi

We have a 06 alhambra which has had 2 new turbos in 3 years. 1st replaced under warranty but second cost us alot of cash and heartache as like yourselves the towbar was blamed.

Very frustrating would love to change but just cant afford

 

[emmerson2]

we have a 2009 2.0 tdci ghia galaxy which i purchased ex demo and its been absolutely faultless. oh ok the little green led light on the auto dimming mirror has failed and the replacement has done the same but the mirror is a third party item and it does still work.

i bought the car with 10.000 miles on the clock and ive put another 8 thousand on it mostly with the van on tow to and from france plus loads of 24 mile commutes to work and back.

i really can not fault the car and the same can be said of our old s max which allso proved totally reliable over the 24.000 miles we had it.

Icemaker,(and others), I don't see how you can a car to be good because it's been reliable over such relatively short mileage. If I bought a new car and it wasn't totally reliable over at least 100,000 miles I'd want to know why!

I've never owned a new car, but I've lots of used ones, and all of them have been reliable over 70 or 80,000 miles.

And the last four of them have been that old favourite in the unreliabilty stakes, RANGE ROVERS!

 

[Icemaker]

emmerson said "Icemaker,(and others), I don't see how you can a car to be good because it's been reliable over such relatively short mileage. If I bought a new car and it wasn't totally reliable over at least 100,000 miles I'd want to know why!

I've never owned a new car, but I've lots of used ones, and all of them have been reliable over 70 or 80,000 miles.

And the last four of them have been that old favourite in the unreliabilty stakes, RANGE ROVERS!"

The reason for this post was the original poster was asking if anybody else had suffered reliability problems with a ford galaxy on a 2007 plate with 29.000 miles on the clock, my self and others who have responded all have cars of similar age or in my case within a few years and similar mileages so we are in the perfect position to reply to the op's question.

a vehicle can be 1 week old and have spent 4 days in the garage, i would consider that to be an un reliable car even though it was allmost new, if the car runs faultlessly for that week then up to that point the car has been totally reliable.

If the OP had stated that his galaxy had covered a high mileage or was considerably older than my car then i would not have responded as we would not have been comparing like for like.

I hope this clears up any confusion.

 

[Jo-AnneFairway5402010]

Julian,

Sadly your story is very familiar to me! I too have an '07 Galaxy. When everything thing works (very rare), it is a fantastic long distance cruiser and towcar. Unfortunately, mine has had umpteen problems, compounded by the abysmal service received from my Ford dealer. I thought having previously owned a Laguna, things could only get more reliable. Wrong!! As I am now out of warranty, I am terrified of a huge bill on the horizon, so I have just signed up for a new Hyundai Santa Fe. Not due for delivery 'till the end of March, so I'm nervous as a kitten 'till it actually gets here. A sad way to be with a car less than three years old.

i have a 57 plate santa fe cdx 7 auto same engine as your new one its ace. what colour and model did you order?.

jo

 

[Giddy01]

Thanks for everyones replies. The Galaxy is currently in for repair again at the mo. Really not sure what to do. Whether to cut our losses and chop it in against something else. Really like the disco 3.

 

[machighlander]

julian, maybes you could leave it overnight in one of the wee back streets up my way. wont be there in the morning, as long as your insured

 

[Garfield]

In a recent "Which" relibility survey the new ford galaxy/smax actually displaced the L/R Discovery as the most unreliable cars on the market, not news I would like to publish, as I would like to sell an Smax at some time in the future, I'm hoping we can put 150k on the clock before having to part with more cash on a new car

 

[Icemaker]

from the report i have just seen from which it appears to be the old galaxy not the new one that is below the discovery.

Mercedes E-Class (99-03)

 

[nelmo]

Oh dear, oh dear, icemaker - have you not heard of percentages?

If there are only 10 S2000s in the survey and 1 failed, that is a 10% failure rate. If there are 1000 SMax's and 50 fail, that is a 5% failure rate etc. So actual numbers in the survey are not too significant (although the more there are, the more accurate it gets).

 

[xtrailman]

you need more than say 10 samples for any meaningful conclusions, percentage figures can be used to mislead.

 

[Icemaker]

percentages are used every day to miss lead, i drive trains for a living and my company claims to have 93 % of trains running on time ! and indeed we are very punctual these days however today has been a pretty poor day in terms of late running, ive done 3 trips and been late on two of them, does that make me over 66 % un reliable which is what the news papers would say or am i 93 % reliable (over the year) which is what northern rail would say ?.

Ive just noticed too that the honda s2000 which has been claimed by which magazine to be the most reliable car in the uk is actually below the galaxy in the warranty direct cost / failure reliability ratings list that i have posted. this again seems to prove that reliability and really any sort of survey published is just the opinion of the author and is to be taken very lightly.