1995 FORD TAURUS Complaints

STUCK IN TRAFFIC ON INTERSTATE HIGHWAY, ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CAR FELT LIKE IT WAS HIT AND THE FRONT END DROPPED. PULLED OVER TO THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY AND SAW THAT THE FRONT LEFT SPRING HAD BROKEN AND DROPPED THE FRONT END. WAS ABLE TO PULL OFF AT EXIT. BY THIS TIME, BROKEN SPRING HAD SEVERED THE FRONT TIRE WHICH BLEW OUT. HAD TO HAVE THE CAR TOWED HOME - MY EXPENSE. AT REPAIR SHOP, DEALER FOUND THAT BOTH FRONT SPRINGS WERE BROKEN HOWEVER THE RIGHT FRONT HAD BEEN BROKEN FOR SOME TIME WITHOUT ANYONE'S KNOWLEDGE. HAD TO REPLACE SPRINGS, STRUTS AND SHOCKS, NEW TIRE, FRONT END ALIGNMENT, STABILIZER BAR CONTROL, BRAKE HOSE AND AXLE SHAFT ASSEMBLY WHICH WERE ALL DAMAGED AS A RESULT OF THE SPRING BREAKING. LUCKILY WE WERE STOPPED IN TRAFFIC AND NOT CRUISING AT 65 MPH WHEN THIS HAPPENED OR THIS COULD HAVE RESULTED IN A SERIOUS ACCIDENT. *NM

1995 FORD TAURAS AND THE HEADLIGHTS HAVE DISCOLORED SO BADLY THAT IT IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SEE AT NIGHT. I HAVE TRIED ALL TYPES OF PLASTIC CLEANERS AND NOTHING WORKS. THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE IS TO REPLACE THE LENS WITH NEW. I CALLED FORD AND THEY HAVE NO RECALL FOR THIS HAZARDOUS CONDITION. I HAVE ALSO NOTICED OTHER TAURAS' ON THE ROAD WITH THE SAME CONDITION.

DT: THE CONTACT OWNS A 1995, FORD TAURUS. WHILE DRIVING THE VEHICLE WAS OPERATING PROPERLY. CONTACT COULD NOT TELL HOW FAST HE WAS GOING BECAUSE THE SPEEDOMETER WAS NOT WORKING. WHEN GETTING OFF AT THE EXIT THE VEHICLE WAS BEGINNING TO SLOW DOWN. HE THOUGHT THE CAR WAS OVERHEATING. WHILE TRYING TO GET OFF OF THE ROAD SAW SMOKE APPEARING FROM THE RIGHT TIRE ON THE FRONT. SOMEONE CAME UP TO HIM AND HE TURNED THE CAR OFF AND JUMPED OUT OF THE CAR HE LOOKED UNDER THE CAR AND SAW FIRE COMING FROM THE GAS TANK. THE AIR INTAKE AND BATTERY MELTED. ALL ELECTRICAL COMPONENTS STILL WORKED BECAUSE IT DID NOT GET INTO THE FIRE WALL. THE FIRE DEPARTMENT HAD ENOUGH TIME TO SALVAGE MOST OF THE VEHICLE. IT WAS UNKNOWN WHERE THE FIRE STARTED. THE DOME LIGHT WOULD NOT GO OFF THE VEHICLE. ALSO, THE PASSENGER SIDE DOOR LIGHT WOULD NOT GO OFF. WHEN CONTACT NOTICED THESE LIGHTS WERE ON HE TOOK THE FUSE OUT THAT CONTROLS THESE LIGHTS BUT SINCE HE WAS GOING ON A LONG DRIVE . BACK HOME HE PUT THE FUSE BACK IN TO LISTEN TO THE RADIO. THEN WHILE DRIVING HOME THE VEHICLE CAUGHT ON FIRE. *AK

DT: CONTACT STATES THE LEFT FRONT SUB FRAME BOLT BROKE IN HALF, LEAVING THE SUB FRAME DOWN ABOUT FOUR INCHES. THE SERVICE DEALER SAID IT WOULD BE VERY DIFFICULT AND TIME CONSUMING TO REPAIR THE VEHICLE. A RECALL ISSUED ON THE REAR SUB FRAME BOLT.*AK

DT: THE VEHICLE CAUGHT ON FIRE, AND THE OWNER BARELY ESCAPED. FOUND OUT LATER THAT CAR WAS UNDER A RECALL, AND HAD BEEN REPAIRED FROM PREVIOUS OWNER. THE CAR WAS BROUGHT TO THE LOCAL DEALERSHIP AS ADVISED BY FORD. DEALERSHIP DETERMINED THE CAUSE OF FIRE TO BE THE RECALLED PART. BUT, FORD REFUSED TO PAY FOR THE DAMAGES. THE RECALL PART INVOLVED COOLING SYSTEM CIRCUIT BREAKER. WHILE DRIVING OWNER SAW A PUFF OF BLACK SMOKE COMING FROM UNDERNEATH THE HOOD. AS THE OWNER EXITED THE CAR, A FEW SECONDS LATER, THERE WERE FLAMES COMING FROM UNDERNEATH THE HOOD. LOCAL FIRE DEPTMENT CAME, AND CONDUCTED THEIR OWN INVESTIGATION WHICH DETERMINED THE SAME LOCATION OF THE FIRE. CONSUMER HAS BEEN IN CONTACT WITH FORD SEVERAL TIMES. CONSUMER WANTED CAR TO BE FIXED. *AK

WAS DRIVING VEHICLE WHEN I EXPERIENCED AX EXTREME OVERHEATING CONDITION. OVER COURSE OF LESS THAN 2 MINUTES TIME MY VEHICLES TEMPERATURE GUAGUE PROGRESSED FROM THE VERY BOTTOM OF THE NORMAL RANGE ALL THE WAY UP PAST THE RED ZONE ABOVE NORMAL. AT TIME OF OCCURENCE IT WAS A COLD DAY OUTSIDE AND I WAS LESS THEN 5 MILES FROM MY HOUSE HAVING DRIVEN VEHICLE LESS THAN 10 MINUTES SO I WAS FAIRLY CERTAIN EXTERNAL FACTORS COULD NOT HAVE EXPLAINED THIS DEGREE OF RAPID ENGINE OVERHEATING. THIS OVERHEATING WAS ACCOMPANIED BY EXCESSIVE AMOUNTS OF THICK WHITE BILLOWING SMOKE EXITING FROM MY EXHAUST PIPE (SEVERE TO THE POINT IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE OUT MY REARVIEW MIRROR. UPON GETTING THE CAR BACK TO MY HOUSE AND ALLOWING IT TO COOL OFF I INSPECTED THE RADIATOR AND FOUND IT TOTALLY VOID OF COOLANT AND PRECEEDED TO REFILL IT WITH OVER 6 LITERS OF REPLACEMENT FLUID. UPON INSPECTING THE UNDERSIDE OF THE ENGINE I WAS ABLE TO ASCERTAIN THAT NO COOLANT HAD LEAKED FROM MY VEHICLE AND FINALLY UPON INSPECTING THE OIL WITHIN THE VEHICLE I NOTED THE ENGINE OIL WAS CONTAMINATED WITH COOLANT/WATER RESULTING IN A THICK WHITISH MILKY APPEARANCE. UPON CONSULTING A MECHANIC AND HAVE SOMEONE COME TO MY HOUSE TO LOOK AT THE CAR IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THE HEAD GASKET FAILED. AT THIS TIME I AM UNCERTAIN AS TO THE EXTENT OF DAMAGE TO THE CORE ENGINE ITSELF.

TIRE THREAD PEELED OFF TIRE, DAMAGE CAR AS WE DROVE DOWN THW HIGHWAY. FIRESTONE TIRE, P205/65R15 F6A SO6R X10 14942. *AK

FORD TAURUS 1995, BROKEN FRONT COIL SPRING. *BF THE CONSUMER LEARNED OF A RECALL RECALL, HOWEVER HE WAS TOLD THE RECALL DID NOT APPLY TO HIS YEAR VEHICLE, EVEN THOUGH HE EXPERIENCED THE SAME FAILURE. *JB

WHILE THE CONSUMER WAS HAVING THE OIL CHANGED IN HIS 1995 FORD TAURUS THE TECHNICIAN NOTICED THAT THE EPOXY COATING COVERING THE ENGINE OIL PAN FAILED AND CAME OFF. AS A RESULT THE PAN WAS SEVERELY RUSTED. *NM WHILE DRIVING THE SPEEDMETER NEEDLE SUDDENLY MOVED BACK AND FORTH VERY FAST*NM

WHILE DRIVING 45 MPH, THE DRIVER HEARD A LOUD KNOCKING NOISE COMING FROM THE FRONT. SUDDENLY, THE FRONT LEFT SIDE COLLAPSED. THE VEHICLE WAS TOWED TO A DEALER FOR INSPECTION. THE MECHANIC INFORMED THE DRIVER THAT THE LEFT FRONT STRUT AND COIL SPRING WERE BROKEN AND NEEDED TO BE REPLACED. PLEASE PROVIDE FURTHER DETAILS. *NM