2010 FORD FUSION Complaints

WHILE DRIVING DOWN THE HIGHWAY DURING RUSH HOUR, THE CAR SHUDDERED AND STALLED, KEPT OSCILLATING AROUND 1000 RPM, WOULD NOT ACCELERATE. ALMOST CRASHED TRYING TO GET TO THE SHOULDER. CALLED DEALERSHIP FROM SIDE OF THE ROAD, THEY SAID IT'S PROBABLY THE THROTTLE BODY. *TR

THE FIRST TIME THE PROBLEM OCCURRED I WAS A 4 LANE WITH THE CRUISE SET A 65. THE CAR LOST ALL POWER AND AT THE SAME TIME! THE WRENCH LIGHT CAME ON. I BRAKED THE CAR AND PULLED OVER OFF THE ROAD, THE CARS ENGINE WAS RUNNING EXTREMELY ROUGH SO I TURNED OF THE IGNITION. AFTER WAITING A FEW MINUTES RESTARTED THE CAR GOT BACK TO SPEED AND THE SAME THING HAPPENED- LUCKY FOR ME NO TRAFFIC AROUND AT THE TIME. THE FORTH TRY THE CAR RAN FINE THE REST OF THE 6 MILES LEFT TO WORK. THAT NIGHT GOING HOME FROM WORK- SAME THING- LOSS OF ALL POWER AND WRENCH LIGHT- MADE IT OFF THE ROAD AGAIN SAFELY. RESTARTED THE CAR AND IT RAN FINE- ABOUT 3 MILES TO HOME. OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS IT DID THE SAME THING SEVERAL MORE TIMES THEN RAN FINE FOR ABOUT A WEEK. TURNS OUT THAT WAS JUST THE START OF THE FUN! : [ NOW IT STARTED LOSING POWER AT BUSY INTERSECTIONS IN TOWN, AS I WAS PULLING INTO TRAFFIC ON A 4 LANE THAT TRAFFIC WAS MOVING 55MPH. *TR

AS I WAS DRIVING TO PICK MY WIFE UP FROM WORK. THE CAR SUDDENLY LOST ALL THROTTLE CONTROL. I WAS NOT ABLE TO GET ANY THROTTLE RESPONSE. THERE WAS NO WARNING THAT THIS WAS ABOUT TO HAPPEN, THE INCIDENT JUST HAPPENED WITHOUT WARNING. SINCE I WAS IN THE SLOW LANE OF TRAFFIC I WAS ABLE TO COAST THE CAR OFF THE ROAD. AFTER A MIN. I WAS ABLE TO START THE CAR AND GO ANOTHER 2 MILES WHEN IT HAPPENED AGAIN. THE ERROR CODE THAT CAME UP WAS P2111. FORD IS LUCKY THAT NO ONE HAS BEEN HURT OR KILLED AS A CAR JUST STOPS WORKING WITH NO WARNING.WHAT IF I WAS MAKING A LEFT TURN ON A BUSY ROAD WHEN THIS HAPPENED? ALL POWER TO NO POWER IN A BLINK OF A EYE. *TR

WAS DRIVING AND THE WRENCH LIGHT CAME ON AND CAR LOST ALL POWER AND WAS SHAKING WAS ABLE TO PULL OFF THE ROAD AND SHUT DOWN THE CAR. RESTART. FOUND OUT ITS THE THROTTLE BODY IS DEFECTIVE AND PART IS ON NATIONAL BACK ORDER IF THIS HAPPENS ON THE FREEWAY I AM SURE THIS WILL CAUSE AN ACCIDENT. IT HAS HAPPENED 4 MORE TIMES SINCE THIS INCIDENT. *TR

60 MPH ON HIGHWAY. WRENCH LIGHT CAME ON. LOST POWER. COASTED TO SIDE OF ROAD (LUCKILY SAFELY). TURNED CAR OFF. RESTARTED AFTER A FEW MINUTES. CONTINUED ABOUT 1/2 MILE. HAPPENED AGAIN. DID SAME THING. CONTINUED ANOTHER 1/2 MILE. DID IT AGAIN. ENGINE SHUTTERED THIS TIME. CHECK ENGINE LIGHT REMAINS ON. WAS ABLE TO RESTART VEHICLE AND GET HOME (APPROXIMATELY 2 MILES). HAPPENED ONCE SHORTLY AFTER USED VEHICLE PURCHASE IN 2011 BUT NEVER DID AGAIN UNTIL NOW. INTERNET SEARCH INDICATES DEFECTIVE THROTTLE BODY PART IS CAUSE. VERY UNSAFE PARTICULARLY IN HIGHWAY DRIVING WHEN THIS HAPPENS! JUST PURCHASED A SECOND 2011 FORD FUSION SE (2011) FOR OUR TEENAGER. CONCERNED ABOUT OUR CHILD'S SAFETY. FORD NEEDS TO ISSUE A RECALL!. *TR

LEAVING DRIVEWAY VEHICLE APPEARED TO LOOSE ALL POWER FROM THE ENGINE, IT DID NOT STALL, ENGINE INDICATOR LIGHT CAME ON THE FIRST ATTEMPT TO LEAVE BACKED CAR UP INTO DRIVE WAY. CHECKED ALL FLUIDS ENGINE OIL, TRANSMISSION OIL WERE BOTH IN THE APPROPRIATE RANGE. RESTARTING THE CAR ENGINE LIGHT CLEARED, SECOND ATTEMPT TO LEAVE CAR HESITATED AND THEN DID STALL CHECK ENGINE LIGHT RETURNED AND STAYED ILLUMINATED. RESTARTING THE VEHICLE AND RETURNED HOME. LET VEHICLE SET ABOUT TEN MINUTES, RESTARTED ENGINE LIGHT STAYED ON, DROVE CAR SHORT DISTANCE ABOUT .25 MILES DID NOT STALL OR HESITATE HOWEVER CHECK ENGINE LIGHT REMAINED ILLUMINATED. *TR

TRAFFIC SLOWED SUDDENLY FROM ABOUT 65MPH TO ABOUT 20-30 MPH SO I HAD TO APPLY MY BRAKES VERY SUDDENLY AND HARD TO AVOID REAR ENDING SOMEONE. TRAFFIC KEPT MOVING AND I REGAINED A SPEED OF ABOUT 40 MPH JUST AFTER THIS I FELT THE CAR MAKE A SUDDEN HARD JERK AND CAR STARTED DECELERATING ON IT'S OWN. I TRIED PUSHING THE GAS PETAL, BUT NOTHING HAPPENED IT WOULD NOT SPEED UP IT KEPT LOOSING SPEED AND EVENTUALLY GOT DOWN TO 1 - 2 MPH. I PULLED THE CAR OVER INTO THE EDGE OF THE RIGHT LANE SO I WAS PARTIALLY ON GRASS AND ON PART OF THE ROAD. I PUT MY HAZARDS ON AND KEPT COASTING BECAUSE IT FELT LIKE THE CAR WAS GOING TO STALL IT WAS SHAKING AND JERKING LIKE IT WANTED TO STALL OUT. I STOPPED THE CAR AND LEFT IT RUNNING I WAS AFRAID IF I SHUT THE CAR COMPLETELY OFF THAT IT WOULD NOT RE-START AGAIN. I THEN DROVE THE CAR HOME WITH MY HAZARDS ON DOING 1 TO 5 MPH ON THE WAY HOME FOR ABOUT 2 MILES. THE WRENCH TOOL LIGHT HAD COME ON WHEN THIS HAPPENED. ONCE I GOT THE CAR HOME I SHUT IT OFF AND RESTARTED AND JUST DROVE BACK AND FORTH IN MY DRIVEWAY. I SHUT THE CAR OFF AND ON ABOUT 3 TIMES AND THEN IT SEEMED TO BE RUNNING NORMAL AND THE TOOL WRENCH LIGHT SHUT OFF. NOT GOING TO DRIVE IT UNTIL I CAN GET IT TO THE FORD DEALER TO HAVE IT LOOKED AT. *TR

I WAS DRIVING MY CAR AND HAD GONE APPROX 1-1/2 - 2 MILES DOWN THE ROAD AND THE CAR WAS DRIVING FINE THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN MY CAR STARTED TO HESITATE AND WOULD BARELY MOVE. I PULLED OVER ON A SIDE ROAD AND TURNED MY CAR OFF AND RESTARTED IT SOUNDED FINE I TURNED AROUND AND PULLED ONTO MAIN ROAD AGAIN AND AGAIN THE CAR STARTED PUTTERING AND WOULD BARELY MOVE I MANAGED TO GET CAR OFF THE ROAD. I HAD IT TOWED TO TASCA FORD WHERE THEY SAID THE THROTTLE BODY NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. IT HAS BEEN A WEEK NOW AND I STILL DON'T HAVE MY CAR AND THEY CAN'T TELL ME WHEN THE NEW PART WILL COME IN BECAUSE IT IS BEING MANUFACTURED? THEY ARE ALSO STATING THEY HAVE 18 - 20 CARS WAITING FOR THIS SAME PART. *TR

WILL DRIVING DOWN INTERSTATE 64 IN KENTUCKY I HIT A ROUGH EXPANSION JOINT WHILE CROSSING A BRIDGE ENTERING INTO WEST VIRGINIA AFTERWARDS THE DASH WARNING LIGHTS LIT UP WITH TRACTION CONTROL LIGHT ON AND ALSO TELLING ME TO SERVICE POWER STEERING. I ALSO NOTICED A LOSS OF POWER AND COULD NOT GAIN ANY PRESSING DOWN ON THE ACCELERATOR PEDAL. I RELEASED THE PEDAL AND PRESSED DOWN AGAIN AND GAINED POWER BUT DID NOT HAVE ANY POWER STEERING. I EXITED AT THE FIST EXIT AND PULLED INTO A FUEL MART TO CHECK UNDER THE HOOD TO SEE IF I COULD FIND A PROBLEM TO WHICH I COULDN'T. THEN I HAD A FRIEND WHO IS A MECHANIC CHECK IT AND HE SAID FORD HAD A PROBLEM WITH POWER STEERING AND IT WAS A VERY COSTLY REPAIR BUT I COULD PROBABLY CONTINUE TO DRIVE IT LOCALLY BUT WITH CAUTION. MY ARMS HAVE INCREASED IN SIZE DUE TO THE MUSCLE NEEDED TO DEAL WITH THE HARD STEERING. WELL THE OTHER DAY THE STEERING WENT COMPLETELY OUT UPON INSPECTING IT WE FOUND THE TIE ROD END ON THE DRIVERS SIDE HAD CAME LOOSE AND WAS COMPLETELY STRIPPED OF THREADS TO WHICH IT ATTACHES TO THE STEERING ROD. WE REPLACED IT AND ALSO FOUND THE OTHER SIDE WAS LOOSE TO. WE NEED HELP NHTSA THIS IS A BIG SAFETY PROBLEM AND NOT JUST A LOCAL ONE, PLEASE ORDER A RECALL! [XXX] INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6). *TR

FIRST INCIDENT: ON 05/21/2013 CAR HESITATED WHEN PUSHING ACCELERATOR PEDAL AFTER GOING DOWNHILL TO A STOP AND THEN ATTEMPTING TO REACH NORMAL SPEED IN OUR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT (SEE EARLIER REPORT ON 07/18/2013 FOR CONFIRMATION NUMBER: 10525593 AND CAR DEALER RECEIPTS ENCLOSED FOR 05/21/2013). ...UPDATED 08/16/13 *BF SECOND INCIDENT: ON 06/21/2013 CAR DID NOT RESPOND BEYOND IDLE SPEED AFTER PUSHING ACCELERATOR PEDAL TO MOVE FROM STOP LIGHT AND DRIFTED TO NEARBY PARKING LOT WITH NO ACCELERATOR PEDAL RESPONSE BEYOND IDLE POWER (SEE EARLIER REPORT ON 07/18/2013 FOR CONFIRMATION NUMBER: 10525593 AND CAR DEALER RECEIPTS ENCLOSED FOR 06/21/2013) ...UPDATED 08/16/13 *BF *TR