I pulled the trigger about a month ago and bought the overpriced door actuator / latch from the Ford dealer. $331.
Well, it fixed the problem with the front - passenger door unlocking itself, but now the drivers front door is doing it. =/ Ugh!
I can, and might, replace the driver's side, but I'm a little worried that the problem will simply show up someplace else when I do. You know how electrical gremlins are.
My luck, the rear doors will start doing it as soon as I fix the driver's door.
The reason why I worry that the problem isn't in the latches themselves, is because before I replaced the passenger side latch, the issue with the driver's side only happened once in a hundred times. And even when it did, it often took opening and closing the passenger door to fix it (WTH?!) Now that the right side is fixed (presumably), the driver's side is doing it all the time.
The only difference is that it's much easier to remedy this issue on the driver's side than it was on the passenger side. What I mean is, I don't have to open and close the driver's side door as many times as I did the passenger side when it did this. Generally I can just open and re-close the driver's side door a single time to fix the issue......... until the next time it does it.
I'm not sure I'm relieved to hear the problem is happening to other people, or more worried that this is a bigger problem that Ford has yet to address. Or maybe even knows about.