1999 FORD TAURUS Complaints

CAR MADE GRINDING NOISE WHILE TURNING. PROGRESSIVELY GOT WORSE. HAD CAR CHECKED AND NEEDED POWER STEERING RACK REPLACED. MECHANIC SAID IT WAS FAILING, AT LESS THAN 40,000 MILES. BOUGHT CAR USED AT 35,000 MILES. FORD NEEDS TO RECALL THE POWER STEERING UNIT AS IT IS OBVIOUSLY A BAD DESIGN. CALLED FORD AND EXPLAINED SITUATION, BUT TO NO AVAIL...

1999 FORD TAURUS NOVEMBER 2002 HEATER FAILED VACUUM SYSTEM FIXED , JANUARY 2003 HEATER FAILED AGAIN, WATER PUMP REPLACED SMELL ANTIFREEZE WHEN HEAT IS BLOWING, MARCH 2003 HEATER FAILED AGAIN! HAVE NOT BROUGHT IT IN TO BE FIXXED, ALREADY SPENT OVER $450 ON THE HEATER...

WHILE DRIVING IN THE RAIN THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS MALFUNCTIONED. THE WINDSHIELD WIPER MOTOR WAS REPLACED AND NOW THE WIPERS COME ON BY THEMSELVES. *NLM *NLM

1999 FORD TAURUS LOST POWER STEERING, PUMP AND RACK NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. THE CAR HAD 36,264 MILES, WARRENTY WAS UP AT 36,000. WE THOUGHT THIS WAS A SAFETY ISSUE, CONTACTED FORD AND THEY WERE NOT OVERLY CONCERNED. WE ALSO THOUGHT THEY SHOULD REIMBURSE SOME OF THE $1400 COST TO REPLACE THE PARTS.

I WAS TOLD BY FORD DEALER, THE RACK & PINION NEEDS TO BE REPLACED AT A COST OF $700. MILEAGE IS ONLY 32,500 *JB

WHILE DRIVING THE SPEEDOMETER NEEDLE FAILED AND THE CAR BEGAN JERKING AND STUTTERING AS IF IT WAS GOING TO STALL. *NLM

PURCHASED '99 FORD TAURUS FROM HERTZ DEALERSHIP IN JULY 2000. AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS WOULD CONSTANTLY COME ON WHEN IN THE OFF POSITION. SOMETIMES OCCURS RIGHT AFTER SIGNAL HAS BEEN USED BUT NOT ALWAYS. WILL OCCUR AT RANDOM. WHEN TAKEN BACK TO HERTZ DEALERSHIP, MECHANIC INFORMED ME THAT IT IS A KNOWN FORD MANUFACTURING DEFECT AND MUST BE FIXED BY THEM. WHEN I CONTACTED THE FORD DEALERSHIP, THEY STATED THEY WOULD ONLY FIX THE DEFECT WITHOUT CHARGE IF THE MILEAGE WAS UNDER 30,000. AT THE TIME, MY MILEAGE WAS APPROXIMATELY 29,995. CONSTANT ATTEMPTS TO HAVE PROBLEM RESOLVED BY FORD HAVE BEEN UNSUCCESSFUL. FORD DEALERSHIP STATED THAT PROBLEM WITH THE WIRING WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE ON FORD CARS BUT ONLY ON VANS AND TRUCKS. REQUEST ANY ASSISTANCE IN RESOLVING THIS MATTER SINCE THE DEFECT IS A FORD FACTORY DEFECT THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED TO FORD OWNERS BY FORD WITHOUT PENALTY. SHOULD BE HANDLED WITHOUT COST TO LOYAL FORD OWNERS. *NLM

OUR COUNTY AGENCY PURCHASED TWO FORD TAURUS VEHICLES NEW, IN 1998 AND 1999. AT THE END OF FEBRUARY 2003 WITHIN ONE WEEK OF EACH OTHER THE DRIVERS SIDE FRONT COIL SPRINGS FRACTURED AND PUNCTURED THE TIRE. IN RESEARCH I HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THERE WERE RECALLS IN 1998 ON THE 1993 FORD TAURUS AND IN 2001 ON THE 1998 FORD CONTOUR AND MERCURY MYSTIQUE, HOWEVER I SEE NO RECALLS CONCERNING THIS PROBLEM WITH THE 1998 AND 1999 FORD TAURUS. I WOULD APPRECIATE AN INVESTIGATION INTO THIS CONCERN WITH THE 1998 AND 1999 FORD TAURUS. I BELIEVE THERE IS AN OBVIOUS PROBLEM WITH THE COIL SPRINGS ON THESE VEHICLES AS WELL. THANK YOU.*JB

THE ABS LIGHT ILLUMINATED ON THE DASHBOARD, AND WHEN THE BRAKES WAS APPLIED, THE PEDAL TRAVELED TO THE FLOOR.*JB

VEHICLE ACCELERATED AT A STOP. APPLIED BRAKES, BUT VEHICLE CONTINUED TO ACCELERATE. *AK *JB