1999 FORD TAURUS Complaints

THE AUTOMATIC TRANSMISSION WAS REPLACED AT 50,000 MILES. THE REPLACEMENT TRANSMISSION LEAKED FLUID FROM THE HUB SEAL. *AK

WHILE PULLING INTO A PARKING SPACE CONSUMER HEARD A LOUD NOISE. UPON INSPECTION OF THE VEHICLE CONSUMER NOTICED THE SOURCE OF THE NOISE WAS DUE TO THE TIMING BELT BREAKING AND FALLING OFF.*AK

BOTH LOWER BALL JOINTS NEED REPLACED. I REPLACED THE RIGHT SIDE APPRX. ONE YEAR AGO. I HAVE ONLY 50000 MILES.

VEHICLE SURGED FORWARD WHEN VEHICLE WAS SHIFTED INTO PARK, RESULTING IN VEHICLE HITTING A BRICK WALL.*MR WHILE SHIFTING INTO PARK, THE ENGINE ACCELERATED TO OVER 3000 RPM WHICH CAUSED THE VEHICLE TO JUMP AN EIGHT INCH CURB AND VIOLENTLY HIT A BRICK WALL.*TS *JB

CONSUMER STATES RACK AND PINION STEERING WAS INSTALLED INCORRECTLY, CAUSING STEERING TO FAIL. DEALER NOTIFIED. *AK

WHILE DRIVING AT 35MPH CAR WOULD NOT AUTOMATICALLY SHIFT INTO THE NEXT GEAR. THE MORE ACCELARATION WAS ATTEMPTED, THE HARDER THE ENGINE PUSHED AND THE HIGHER THE RPMS WENT WITHOUT CHANGING GEAR. TOOK TO DEALERSHIP WHO HAVE YET TO LOOK AT PROBLEM.*AK

MY 1999 FPRD TAURUS SE WITH 47,995 MILES HAD THE POWER STEERING PUMP BREAK AND SPRAY POWER STEEING FLUID THROUGHTOUT THE CAR, THE RACK AND PINION STEERING IS GONE, LEAKING EVERYWHERE, AND THE DEFROST, FAN, AND BLOWER HAVE STOPPED WORKING.*AK

DRIVER GOT INTO VEHICLE WHILE IT WAS PARKED AND THE FRONT LEFT SIDE BROKE AND EXPLODED. *AK

WHILE ATTEMPTING TO BACK OUT OF A PARKING SPACE BEHIND MY HOUSE, THE DRIVERS SIDE FRONT COIL SPRING BROKE. THIS CAUSED THE DRIVERS SIDE FRONT TIRE TO PUNCTURE AND INSTANTLY LOSE ALL PRESSURE. ABOUT ONE RING OF THE COIL BROKE OFF AND THE COIL REMAINING ON THE CAR HAD THE SHARP END THAT PIERCED THE TIRE.

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 RESTRAINT. 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!! *NLM