2000 FORD TAURUS Complaints

FORD TAURUS WATER LEAK ON PASSENGER SIDE OF CABIN. OVER AN INCH OF WATER ON FLOOR. APPEARED AFTER CABIN FILTER WAS REPLACED. DEALER REPLACED RT. SIDE COWL AND WEATHER STRIPPING. STILL HAD LEAK. APPARENTLY THEY CRACKED OR DID NOT PROPERLY REINSTALL THE CABIN FILTER COVER. HAD SOME WORK DONE SINCE THEN WITH NEW CABIN FILTER, HAD HEAVY RAIN AND WATER DAMAGE AGAIN. THIS TIME, BLOWER MOTOR AND BLOWER RESISTOR RUINED. SMELLED ELECTRICAL BURNING. VERY DANGEROUS, I WOULD IMAGINE, NOT TO MENTION, TRYING TO DRIVE WITH FOGGED UP WINDOWS. THEY WANT ME TO PAY OVER $450 TO REPAIR. I HAVE REFUSED. INCIDENTS WERE IN 12/04 AND NOW. HAVE READ PLENTY OF INFO. REGARDING FORD'S FAULTY DESIGN OF TAURUS' (MINE) SABLES AND OTHER MODELS. THIS SHOULD BE RECALLED AND REPAIRED FREE OF CHARGE!!! *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 FORD TAURUS. THE CONTACT OBSERVED THAT HIS BRAKE LIGHTS WEREN'T OPERATING NORMALLY. WHILE THE VEHICLE WAS BEING SERVICED THE DEALER ALSO OBSERVED THAT THE BRAKE LIGHTS WERE INOPERABLE. THE CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 75,000 AND THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 70,000.

PASSENGER FLOORBOARD IS FILLING UP WITH WATER ONLY WHEN IT RAINS. I HAVE HAD THE HEATER CORE, HEATER CORE CAUSING AND WEATHER STRIP REPLACED BY MIDAS AND RAINHAT AND WEATHER STRIPING REPLACED BY FORD BUT IT STILL LEAKS. *TR BLOWER MOTOR SHORTED OUT BECAUSE OF WATER.

2000 FORD TAURUS FRACTURED REAR SPRING. LOUD CLUNK UPON TAKE OFF FROM STOP. VEHICLE OCCUPIED BY 3 ADULT PASSENGERS AND ADULT DRIVER, NO WEIGHT IN TRUNK. VEHICLE MILEAGE: 86,733 MI. CORRECTLY DRIVEN AND MAINTAINED. BROKEN SPRINGS REPLACED BY REPAIR SHOP 02/23/2008. *TR

2000 FORD TAURUS BROKEN REAR COIL SPRING. CONSUMER WOULD LIKE REIMBURSEMENT TO REPLACE THE DEFECTIVE REAR COIL SPRING. *KB THE CONSUMER BELIEVED THE COIL SPRING HAD TO BE DEFECTIVE DURING MANUFACTURING FROM INADEQUATE HEAT TREATING PROCESSING. *JB

WE HAVE TWO FORD TAURUS' AND BOTH HAVE THE SAME DOOR LATCH PROBLEM. BOTH ARE YEAR MODEL 2000. THE ISSUE IS THAT WHEN OUTDOOR TEMPERATURES DROP TO THE LOW 20 DEGREE AREA AND BELOW, THE DOORS WILL NOT LATCH. WE FOUND THIS OUT THE FIRST TIME BY HAVING THE DOOR FLY OPEN WHILE DRIVING. I'VE DONE SOME INTERNET RESEARCH AND IT APPEARS THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM FOR MANY PEOPLE GOING AT LEAST AS FAR BACK AS 1999, AND FORWARD TO AT LEAST THE 2004 MODEL YEAR. I COULD PUT A TON OF LINKS TO SITES WHERE PEOPLE ARE ASKING FOR HELP WITH THIS PROBLEM BUT THEY'RE EASY TO FIND. I BELIEVE THIS IS A SERIOUS SAFETY DEFECT THAT COULD PUT PEOPLE AT RISK OF AN INJURY. IN ORDER TO GET THE DOOR LATCH TO WORK PROPERLY REQUIRES THAT HEAT BE APPLIED AND THEN THIS IS ONLY A TEMPORARY BAND AID. THE DOOR LATCHES WILL NOT FUNCTION AS SOON AS THEY GET COLD AGAIN. I BELIEVE THIS IS A DESIGN DEFECT THAT WILL EITHER CAUSE AN ACCIDENT OR CREATE A SITUATION WHERE AN OCCUPANT IS NOT PROTECTED DURING A CRASH. *TR

FRONT PASSENGER SEAT BELT STOPPED RETRACTING AND WAS NOT USABLE FOR THE PASSENGER (WHO HAPPENED TO BE MY TEENAGER) I HAD TAKEN IT TO BE REPAIRED THREE PREVIOUS TIMES. WAS TOLD THAT IT WAS NOT A DEFECT AND THAT I HAD TO PAY 152 DOLLARS THIS TIME TO HAVE IT REPAIRED SINCE THE CAR IS NOW NOT UNDER WARRANTY BUT WAS UNDER WARRANTY THE FIRST 3 PREVIOUS ATTEMPTS TO FIX THE PROBLEM. *TR

PASSENGER SIDE REAR SPRING FRACTURED, DRIVER SIDE IS CRACKED AND READY TO FRACTURE. NO DAMAGE TO THE TIRE BUT I WOULD IMAGINE THIS IS A DIRECT RESULT OF LIVING IN A REGION WHERE SALTY ROADS ARE NORMAL EVERYDAY LIFE AND THERE IS ONLY A RECALL ON THE FRONT SPRINGS SO I GUESS I AM OUT THE 500.00 IT GOING TO COST TO FIX IT. *TR

REAR DRIVER SIDE COIL SPRING BROKE. WHEN BROKE, IT WORE A HOLE INTO THE TIRE. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 2000 FORD TAURUS. THE FRONT PASSENGER SIDE SEAT BELT MALFUNCTIONED. THE DEALER STATED THAT THE ROLLER IN THE SEAT BELT ASSEMBLY WOULD NOT RELEASE. WHEN PASSENGERS WERE SEATED IN THE SEAT, THEY WERE UNABLE TO USE THE SEAT BELT. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 9,000 AND CURRENT MILEAGE WAS 17,692.