1999 FORD TAURUS Complaints

ENGINE FAILURE DUE TO FROZEN CAM SHAFT DUE TO FAULTY PRESS FIT CAM CONTAINER REPORTED ON 30% OF YAMAHA BUILT FORD TAURUS SHO V8 ENGINES (ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT) BUILT BETWEEN 1996 & 1999. * CB

AT 20,000 MILES THE TRANSMISSION WAS REBUILT BECAUSE OF SHIFTING PROBLEMS. AT 70,000 SAME PROBLEM AGAIN. FORD SAID THIS PROBLEM WAS RARE SO DID NOT COVER. MY EASY CARE POLICY ($1500) WOULD NOT COVER BECAUSE I DIDN'T HAVE TRANSMISSION SERVICED AT 50,000 MILES. I ARGUED THAT TRANSMISSION FLUID CHANGING WOULD NOT HAVE PREVENTED THIS PROBLEM AS IT WAS AN ONGOING PROBLEM WITH FORD TAURUS TRANSMISSIONS.STILL DRIVING AT 93000 MILES. SLIPPING , SHIFTING ERRATIC AND SHIFTING HARD.

THE TRANSMISSION WOULD SLIP OCCASIONALLY BUT WE DID NOT THINK MUCH ABOUT IT UNTIL ONE NIGHT MY HUHSBAND WAS DRIVING AND HE STOPPED AT A STOP SIGN AND WHEN HE TRIED TO GO AGAIN HE HEARD A POPPING SOUND AND THE CAR WILL NOT MOVE FORWARD! WHEN THE CAR WAS PUT IN ANY DRIVE GEAR YOU COULD HEAR GRINDING.

IN A 1999 FORD TAURUS SE, MY 6 YEAR OLD SON BECAME TRAPPED IN A SEAT BELT THAT WAS NOT EVEN BUCKLED. AFTER ARRIVING HOME AT 9 P.M. MY SON HAD JUST UNBUCKLED HIS SEAT BELT WHEN SOMEHOW HE PULLED THE SEAT BELT OVER HIM AND THE SEAT BELT WRAPPED AROUND HIM AND IT WAS AROUND HIS WAIST AND BACK. THE SEAT BELT JUST KEPT GETTING TIGHTER ON HIM AND WOULD NOT RELEASE JUST LIKE A COWBOYS LASOE. ANY SLACK I COULD GET WAS GOING UP IN THE SHOULDER RESTAINT. THE BELT WOULD NOT GIVE ME ANY SLACK. THIS WAS IN THE REAR SEAT ON THE DRIVERS SIDE. AFTER IT GOT SO TIGHT THAT MY SON WAS CRYING IN PAIN AND PANIC, I FINALLY HAD TO CUT THE SEAT BELT TO FREE MY SON. MY COMPLAINT IS THAT THIS SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED. WHY IS THERE NO SLACK GIVEN ON THE SEAT BELT ESPECIALLY IN A PARKED CAR. THE BELT SHOULD NOT KEEP LOCKING AND TAKING UP SLACK. THIS IS AN UNSEEN DANGER LURKING THAT COULD ENTRAP A CHILD. THE BELT WILL ENTRAP A CHILD WITHOUT BEING SECURED IN THE BUCKLE. BEWARE!!

HEAT ONLY OPERATED ON MAX. BOUGHT REPAIR MANUAL AND REPAIR PART AND FIXED IT MYSELF. (VEHICLE WAS 1 MONTH OUT OF WARRANTY AND DEALER WOULD NOT HELP). STEERING GEAR FAILED. (VEHICLE WARRANTY WAS UNDER MILEAGE BUT OVER ON TIME. (DEALER WOULD NOT HELP WITH PARTS OR LABOR EVEN THOUGH THEY KNEW THE PART WAS DEFECTIVE).

FRONT BRAKE ROTOR WARP ALOT AT LEASE A SET A YEAR TRANSMISSION SHIFTS ROUGH AT TIMES STEERING IS STIFT PULLS TO THE LEFT HARD SOMETIMES, THINK IT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WITH THE TRANSAXLE?

SWAYBAR ENDLINKS ARE JUNK BUT DEALER INSISTS OEM ONLY WAY TO GO. AODX TRANSMISSION KICKS IN AND OUT. NOW EXPERIENCING P0500 CODE (FAULTY SPEED SENSOR)? REAR BRAKES HAVE ALWAYS SQUEELED (EVEN WITH OEM PADS) HAVE HAD TWO APPARENT BLOWOUTS OF PASS SIDE SEAL IN RACK.

THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION BEGAN TO MAKE A GRINDING NOISE, AND THEN I WAS UNABLE TO SHIFT GEARS. AFTER A FEW MOMENTS, THE TRANSMISSION FAILED COMPLETELY. I TOOK THE CAR TO A SHOP IN ITALY, AND THE MECHANIC ACTUALLY TOLD ME HE KNEW THAT THIS WAS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH THIS MODEL!*AK

POWER STEERING PUMP SEAL HAD DRASTIC LEAK. THIS CAUSED THE FLUID TO LEAK OUT AND DRAMATICALLY INCREASE THE EFFORT REQUIRED TO STEAR THE VEHICLE. SUCH DIFFICULTY IN STEARING COULD HAVE RESULTED IN A CRASH.*AK

HEATER CORE HAD TO BE REPLACED. DEALER STATED THAT IT BECAME CLOGGED BECAUSE OF SLUDGE BUILDUP.*AK