Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| EXTERIOR LIGHTING | |||
| 10/15/2012 | 1 | ||
| My instrument panel started going out while i was driving down the highway one night and it caused my reverse lights to flash on and off. this is a problem that ford knows about and it is a problem due to faulty solder joints on the back of the instrument panel, there is a tsb for this, but there is no recall on this why? this problem has also led to my transmission going out again, and ford will do nothing about any of it. i am not the only one who has had this problem either there are tons of owners of this car that have had these issues. ford needs to be held accountable for these issues that are a result of faulty manufacturing. we are a hard working family and we spent everything we had replacing the transmission in our car six months ago, and our warranty was up seven days before our transmission went out and now thanks to the faulty instrument panel doing whatever it was doing to the computer when it was cutting in and out it has tore my almost $4000.00 transmission up and now i have no car to haul all of my children around in. i also contacted ford via email and the response i got was save your receipts in case of a recall or a forgiveness program is started up. *tr | |||
| 03/22/2012 | 56152 | ||
| While driving to work all of a sudden the cluster lights in the instrument panel all went out and the speedometer, odometer, control temp, and gas gage all zeroed out and a wrench and air bag light came on. then after about 10 minutes of driving everything starting working again and the two warning lights went off however, then the check engine light came on. i had a diagnostic done and the errors were all electrical. have to take it in a few days to the ford dealer and be charged a $90.00 fee up front just for them to look at it and diagnose the problem. according to all the complaints it's been a very well known problem that ford should have dealt with in a recall. not just try to sweep it under the rug. i'm sure it's going to cost me an arm and a leg when they get done. i have always owned a ford but now i think i'm going to make a switch to a chrysler (since i do work there now) and i know i will be taken care of not just taken. | |||
| EXTERIOR LIGHTING - BACK UP LIGHTS | |||
| 11/23/2006 | 15000 | 15 | 07/04/2005 |
| When slightly raining, the light sensor seems to only work intermittently thereby not always turning on the lights in auto mode. this seems to be a problem only in rain during the day when the sensor has a hard time distinguishing when to turn on and when to turn off. *tr | |||