Consumer Complaints
| Fail date | miles | occurences | Purchase date |
|---|---|---|---|
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL | |||
| 09/25/2001 | 1 | 01/24/1991 | |
| Consumer shifted vehicle into park from drive, when it suddenly acclerated to a high speed, consumer pressed the brake pedal, however vehicle would not stop, vehicle crashed into a bank, both the driver and passenger sustained injuries, the driver sustained facial injuries due to the deployment of the air bag. *slc | |||
| 04/18/1987 | 2 | 11/01/1995 | |
| Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration on two occasions, one incident resulted in vehicle accident and injury (attorney for consumer). mjs | |||
| 11/01/1999 | |||
| While driving at 65 mph the vehicle accelerated on its own. consumer applied the brakes, and the vehicle kept accelerating. consumer put the vehicle into neutural, and the vehicle kept going. then put the vehicle into reverse and the vehicle slowed down and then came to a stop. *ak | |||
| 08/03/1999 | 1 | 02/19/1997 | |
| The gromet broke on cables for transmission. one cable fell behind throttle body & caused throttle to become wide open & vehicle accelerated. also, brakes froze. had no brakes at all. had control of vehicle. taking vehicle to dealer. *ak *ml | |||
| 1 | |||
| Cruise control failed. | |||
| 10/04/1997 | |||
| Upon applying brakes, vehicle accelerated out of control, resulting in a collision. *ak | |||
| 09/29/1997 | |||
| When stepping on brake to disengage the cruise control, driving (65) mph, the vehicle slowed down, but the cruise control would not disengage. this system reengaged once the driver took foot off brake pedal. the switch on the steering wheel had to be used to disengage system. *ak | |||
| 1 | |||
| Cruise control failed. | |||
| 08/14/1996 | |||
| Vehicle was parked, put into reverse, vehicle went into open throttle position, rpms unknown, to stop vehicle applied brakes rear hard. *ak | |||
| 02/15/1994 | 5 | ||
| Vehicle started running rough/engine missing. *sd | |||
| 02/15/1994 | 5 | ||
| Cruise control inoperative. *sd | |||
| 10/12/1995 | 1 | 07/01/1991 | |
| When auto was started and was engaged in reverse the engine began to accelerate at high speed-consumer was unable to stop auto w/brakes causing an auto accident. dealer replaced iac and gasket and cleaned throttle body. *slc | |||
| 10/11/1995 | |||
| The engine suddenly accelerated caused consumer to have an accident. tt | |||
| 02/01/1995 | 1 | ||
| Sudden acceleration, causing loss of control/accident. *skd | |||
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL - ACCELERATOR PEDAL | |||
| 04/28/2000 | 07/01/1992 | ||
| Approaching a traffic light realized i had no accelerator pedal. engine was running and i had brakes, i pulled the car off the road and it started to smoke, then flames. my wonderful lincoln was totaled. there was no indication that there was any problem. no lights went on the car never stalled. the fire department said they felt the line was burning, and i lost the accelerator because it was already on fire and burned through. i checked the recalls for 1991 lincolns and there was a recall for fuel lines, but not for my vin number. therefore we never received a recall. *ak | |||
| 01/13/2000 | |||
| While applying the brakes vehicle suddenly accelerated because the accelerator pedal stuck, resulting in a collision. *ak | |||
| VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL - LINKAGES | |||
| 05/05/1997 | 0 | ||
| While turning on the ignition car took off into the house, and hit another consumer, injuring them. sept of 1998, consumer put car in reverse and car took off backwards, consumer had to turn off the key to stop the car.*ak | |||
| 11/20/1999 | |||
| Vehicle experienced sudden acceleration, causing a three-car crash, at speeds exceeding 80-85 mph. while attemping to shift to park, to shut off vehicle, it caught in reverse and continued to accelerate backwards, crashing into three more vehicles. both airbag's experienced no deployment. vehicle was totalled. please provide any further information. *ak *yc | |||
| 12/11/1996 | 1 | ||
| Cruise control would not disengage due to failure of the electrical servo-switch and cruise control unit. mjs | |||
| 02/01/1996 | 6 | ||
| After putting vehicle into the drive gear, the throttle stuck, causing the vehicle to increase speed, resulting in an accident. applied brakes, but they did not stop the vehicle from accelerating. *ak | |||