2000 FORD TAURUS Complaints

REAR SPRING BROKE ON 2000 FORD TAURUS, APPEARS TO BE A COMMON PROBLEM ON FRONT AND REAR SPRINGS. FORD RECALLED FRONT BUT WHY NOT REAR? *TR

LOUD "CLUNKING EXPLOSION" SOUND FROM REAR AND CAR HANDLING WAS AFFECTED. TOOK IT TO DEALER AND FOUND I HAD 3 BROKEN COIL SPRINGS-- 2 OF WHICH HAD BEEN BROKEN FOR A LONG TIME. ONE ON THE FRONT, WHICH WAS COVERED UNDER RECALL AND BOTH BACK SPRINGS. FRONT SPRING WAS COVERED IN RECALL, BUT FROM WHAT I'VE FOUND ONLINE JUST AS MANY PEOPLE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH THE REAR SPRINGS. CHARGED OVER $600 IN REPAIR TO GET 2 NEW REAR SPRINGS INSTALLED, BUT STILL HAVE RATTLING PROBLEMS AFTERWARDS. CAR IS DRIVEN EXTREMELY LIGHTLY AND THE FINAL BREAKAGE HAPPENED WHILE BACKING OUT OF MY DRIVEWAY AT APX 5MPH. *TR

I HAVE A 2000 FORD TAURUS AND OF COURSE BOTH OF MY FRONT COIL SPRINGS BROKE. THANK HEAVEN NO ACCIDENTS. HAD THEM REPLACED AT A LOCAL FORD DEALERSHIP ON 07/15/2008 WAS INFORMED AS WELL THAT ONE REAR SPRING WAS BROKEN. NOT COVERED UNDER 04M04B THEY ARE THE SAME SPRINGS AS THE FRONT!!!!! NOW I HAVE TO TRY AND FIGURE OUT A WAY TO GET MY CAR FIXED WITH NO CASH NOT GOING TO BE EASY. SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE ABOUT THIS WITH FORD!!! *TR

DURING A VERY COLD SNAP, MY WIFE STARTED THE CAR AND HEAR A BANG. I FOUND THE FRONT COIL SPRING HAD SNAPPED AND IMPALED THE TIRE. IT WAS AN ALMOST CLEAN BREAK, WITH A BROKEN WHISKER OF STEEL AT THE PERIMETER OF THE COIL. FORD HAD OFFERED TO SUPPLY A SHROUD TO PROTECT TIRES OF CARS IN "RUST-PRONE " STATES, BUT THIS WAS NO RUST-THROUGH. IT WAS CLEARLY A CASE OF BAD STEEL. OTHERS HAVE HAD VARIOUS LUCK WITH FORD, EVEN COVERING THE COST OF NEW SPRINGS AND INSTALLATION. I WAS TOLD NO, THE WARRANTY HAD EXPIRED, AND THAT I DIDN'T HAVE THE SHROUDS INSTALLED. WHERE WOULD I BE THEN, EXCEPT HAVING A GOOD TIRE AND A BROKEN SPRING THAT THEY STILL WOULDN'T COVER? *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 FORD TAURUS. THE CONTACT WALKED TO THE BACK OF HIS HOME WHERE THE VEHICLE WAS LOCATED AND NOTICED THAT THE VEHICLE WAS ON FIRE. HE WAS ABLE TO EXTINGUISH THE FIRE, BUT NO ONE WAS INJURED DURING THE INCIDENT. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WAS CALLED, EXAMINED THE VEHICLE, AND STATED THAT THE FIRE ORIGINATED FROM THE DASHBOARD. THE CONTACT DID NOT NOTICE ANY DIFFERENCES IN THE VEHICLE BEFOREHAND AND HAS NOT BEEN DIAGNOSED BY THE DEALER. THE CURRENT AND FAILURE MILEAGES WERE 100,000.

BROUGHT 2000 FORD TAURUS IN TO REPAIR SHOP TO HAVE TIRES REPLACED. REC'D PHONE CALL THAT BOTH REAR STRUT SPRINGS WERE BROKEN AND THEY WOULD NOT PUT TIRES ON BECAUSE OF THE SAFETY ISSUE OF SPRINGS POKING INTO TIRES & CAUSING ACCIDENT. SO STRUTS NEED TO BE FIXED FIRST TO THE TUNE OF $1000, WHICH I DON'T HAVE. APPARENTLY, THIS IS COMMON IN TAURUSES, AND FORD SHOULD BE OFFERING TO PAY SOME OR ALL OF THE REPAIRS. *TR

I HAVE A 2000 FORD TAURUS, APPROXIMATELY 2 YEARS AGO THE FRONT SPRING BROKE AND WENT THROUGH THE TIRE, THANK GOD IT HAPPENED IN THE DRIVE WAY NOT THE HIGHWAY. IT WAS REPLACED UNDER A RECALL. I ASSUMED THEY REPLACED ALL SPRINGS AS IF THERE IS A STRESS RELIEF PROBLEM IT WOULD BE IN ALL SPRINGS. I CALLED THE FORD DEALERSHIP THAT REPLACED THE BROKEN SPRING AND TOLD THEM THAT BOTH REAR SPRINGS ARE BROKEN AND IF THEY REPLACED THEM PREVIOUSLY. THEY TOLD ME NO, THE REAR SPRINGS ARE NOT COVERED UNDER THE RECALL, HE ALSO STATED THAT HE HAD BEEN INUNDATED WITH CONSUMERS WITH THE REAR SPRINGS BROKEN BUT FORD REFUSES TO FIX THEM. HE STATED I WOULD HAVE TO REPLACE THEM MYSELF AT APPROXIMATELY $400. THE VEHICLE IS NEARLY UNDRIVEABLE AND A SAFETY HAZARD TO THE DRIVER AND OTHERS ON THE ROAD THE WAY IT IS. HOW CAN FORD, KNOWING THE SPRINGS ARE BAD (RECALL ON FRONT SPRINGS) AND IT BEING A SAFETY HAZARD AND REFUSE TO REPAIR THE BROKEN SPRINGS. FORD CONSUMER HOTLINE TOLD ME, ONLY THE FRONT IS COVERED AND WOULD NOT TELL ME WHY THE REAR ARE NOT. IT IS DANGEROUS, HOWEVER I HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO DRIVE IT THIS WAY SINCE I DO NOT HAVE $400 +/- TO GET THEM FIXED. NO WONDER THEY ARE DOWN 28% IN SALES. *TR

DRIVER STARTED ENGINE AND SHIFTED TO REVERSE AT WHICH TIME THE LEFT FRONT TIRE BLEW OUT. INSPECTION REVEALED THAT THE SPRING WAS BROKEN AND PUNCTURED THE TIRE. FURTHER INSPECTION REVEALED THAT THE RIGHT FRONT SPRING WAS ALSO BROKEN BUT HAD NOT YET PUNCTURED THE TIRE. WHILE THESE TIRES HAD ONLY BEEN DRIVEN 10 MILES PER DAY FOR 12 MONTHS THEY HAD NO TREAD ON THE INSIDE WHILE THE REST OF THE TIRES HAD LITTLE WEAR. BOTH SPRINGS APPEAR TO HAVE BROKEN IN THE SAME SPOT. *TR

REAR SPRINGS BROKEN ON VEHICLE. SAT DOWN IN VEHICLE AND REAR SPRING BUSTED IN MY DRIVEWAY. *TR

ON THE MORNING OF JUNE 23RD, 2008. I PROCEEDED TO GET INTO MY AUTOMOBILE, I STARTED THE ENGINE, PUT MY THINGS AWAY WHILE MY ENGINE WARMED UP AND APPROXIMATELY WHILE BACKING UP 1 FT TO LEAVE; MY FRONT RIGHT COIL SPRING BROKE INTO PIECES AND BLEW MY TIRE OUT. I AM LUCKY THAT THIS DID NOT HAPPEN ON A HIGHWAY. *TR