1988 FORD AEROSTAR Complaints

CONSUMER COMPLAINED THA T DEALER REFUSED TO HONOR MFR. RECALL NOTICE #98M-03 BECAUSE THEY HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY NOTIFICATION CONCERNING MFR. RECALL. *AK

WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE AT APPROX. 70 MPH THE DRIVESHAFT BLEW UP, CAUSING DAMAGES TO GAS SHIELD/TAIL PIPE/TRANSMISSION AND ALTERNATOR. DEALER/MFR. NOTIFIED. *AK

ON AUGUST 15, 1998, MY HUSBAND AND I WERE EXITING OFF OF 575 SOUTHBOUND AT HWY. 92 AND SOMEONE CAME UP BESIDE ME AND SCREAMED AT US TO GET OUT, THE VAN IS ON FIRE. WE GOT OUT AND SOMEONE HAS CALLED THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND THEY CAME OUT AND PUT THE FIRE OUT. IT HAD BURNED THE INSIDE OF THE FLOOR WHERE THE CONSOLE IS, AND THE ENGINE PARTS ARE ALL MELTED AND ONE OF THE FIREMEN FOUND SOME TYPE OF FUEL CANNISTERS ON THE GROUND. I HAD JUST LEFT THE GAS STATION, I HAD JUST FILLED THE FUEL TANK.

WHILE DRIVING CONSUMER BEGAN TO SEE AND SMELL SMOKE. PULLED OVER TO THE SIDE, PROCEEDED TO LIFT THE HOOD AND SAW HIGH FLAMES. DEALER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED.

WHEN THE FUEL TANK IS 3/4 FILL IT LEAKS FROM THE FILLER NECK. THE DEALER/MANUFACTURER ARE AWARE OF THE PROBLEM. THE PROBLEM HAS NOT BEEN CORRECTED. *AK

WHILE PARKED THE CABLE THAT HOLDS THE SPARE TIRE UNDER THE VEHICLE RUSTED, CAUSING THE TIRE TO DROP FROM UNDER THE VEHICLE. *AK

WHILE DRIVING APPROX 40 MPH SMELLED SOMETHING SMOTHERING. STOPPED AND LIFTED HOOD AND FIRE HAD COME OUT, AND WIRES WERE MELTED TOGETHER. *AK

ELECTRICAL: DRIVING HOME APPROXIMATELY 20MPH WHEN NOTICED THE SMELL OF SMOKE. PULLLED INTO THE DRIVEWAY AND SMOKE WAS COMING FROM UNDERNEATH THE HOOD. BY THE TIME GOT OUT THE VEHICLE WAS ON FIRE. *AK

WHILE PARKED IN DRIVEWAY VEHICLE SUDDENLY CAUGHT FIRE UNDERDASH IN LOWER AREA OF STEERING COLUMN, NO WARNING, NO FOUL PLAY, VEHICLE TOTALED. *AK

WHILE IN MOTION TRANSMISSION JUMPED OUT OF DRIVE INTO REVERSE GEAR, DRIVER LOST CONTROL, VEHICLE CRASHED INTO VEHICLE BEHIND, NO WARNING, TRANSMISSION REPLACED. *AK