Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM | |||
| 11/10/2012 | 136484 | 1 | |
| I was driving my 2001 ford taurus onto a freeway and got up to 45 mph and the car continued to accelerate after i lifted my foot off the gas. i attempted to press on the brake as hard as i could and the car was still accelerating. pressing the brake would not make the car stop. i was not using cruise control. i pulled off to the side of the freeway and put the car in park, the car was still revving up, so i turned the car off. i waited a couple of minutes and started the car again and continued driving and the car exhibited the same conditions as before. i was able to exit the freeway and was about to get to an intersection that had a stop sign. i realized that even after pressing down on the brakes as hard as i could, the car was not going to stop so i proceeded to pull over to the side again and quickly put the car in park and turn the car off. i left the car there and walked to the nearest gas station and towed the car home. i did not feel safe driving anymore and it is a miracle that i did not cause an accident. *tr | |||
| 11/10/2012 | 136484 | ||
| I was driving my 2001 ford taurus onto a freeway and got up to 45 mph and the car continued to accelerate after i lifted my foot off the gas. i attempted to press on the brake as hard as i could and the car was still accelerating. pressing the brake would not make the car stop. i was not using cruise control. i pulled off to the side of the freeway and put the car in park, the car was still revving up, so i turned the car off. i waited a couple of minutes and started the car again and continued driving and the car exhibited the same conditions as before. i was able to exit the freeway and was about to get to an intersection that had a stop sign. i realized that even after pressing down on the brakes as hard as i could, the car was not going to stop so i proceeded to pull over to the side again and quickly put the car in park and turn the car off. i left the car there and walked to the nearest gas station and towed the car home. i did not feel safe driving anymore and it is a miracle that i did not cause an accident. | |||
| 10/11/2011 | 125000 | ||
| I had a accident when i was hit my seatbelts were not function effectivly there i was injured. | |||
| 05/26/2012 | 164100 | ||
| I had just punched the gas pedal and then went to hit the brakes a few seconds later, but the car wasn't really slowing. looked down and noticed the rpms were at 4000 so i moved the transmission to neutral and the car started slowing more. the car kept revving at 4k rpms though so i turned off the engine. i hadn't come to a complete stop yet so the last few feet were harder to stop, but luckily there wasn't any traffic in front of me and i wasn't in any danger of hitting anyone/anything. i tried starting the car up again and it went right up to 4000k rpms, i shut it off and then tried to hit the gas pedal thinking that maybe it was stuck or there was something under it or something, but that wasn't it so i shut the car off again. then i popped the hood and noticed that one of the cables that went to the throttle had slid out of a grey boot and was jammed against the side of that boot holding the throttle open. i moved it back so that it popped into the center. started it up again and it was fine. closer examination later showed that the grey connector that holds the cable in the center had little bits broken off. if those bits there there, it would prevent the cable from sliding out. as this was on a weekend, as a temporary fix, i used a zip tie and some duct tape to hold it in before i got a new cruise control cable. this was the first time this had happened to me. | |||