1999 FORD WINDSTAR Complaints

1999 FORD WINDSTAR 3.8L V6 99K MILES DRIVING TO WORK TRANSMISSION STOPPED WORKING TO MAKE THE VEHICLE MOVE FORWARD. IT ONLY WOULD WORK IN REVERSE. THIS IS A COMMON PROBLEM WITH WINDSTARS PLEASE REFERENCE THIS WEBSITE HTTP://WWW.CARCOMPLAINTS.COM/FORD/WINDSTAR/2000/TRANSMISSION/. *TR

REPLACED WIRING ON FUSE BLOCK,REPLACED HIGH PRESSURE SWITCH TWICE,ABS TRACTION CONTROL LIGHT KEEPS GOING ON DASH,DRIVER BRAKE LIGHT DON'T WORK,DEALER SAID IT IS THE REAR BRAKE MODULE. I HOPE THIS IS GOING TO RECALL ON ALL THESE CARS THAT ARE HAVING THE SAME ISSUE. I HOPE TO HERE BACK FROM SOMEONE ON ALL THESE ISSUES WITH MY FORD WINDSTAR 1999. I HAD CALLED THE DEALER ON MY BRAKE MODULE AND THEY ARE HAVING A HAD TIME GETTING A PART,I HAD CALLED THE DEALER ON 3/20/09 AND CALLED THEM ON 3/24/09 AND I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM THE DEALER ON WHAT THIS IS GOING TO COST FOR THE PART AND LABOR. HOPE TO HERE FROM SOMEONE SOON. *TR

FORD WINDSTAR XL 1999- FRONT END CLUNKING NOISES SERVICED 3-4 TIMES BEFORE IT WAS FIXED. REPEATED REPAIRS TO VARIOUS FRONT END COMPONENTS REPLACED AT MY EXPENSE INCLUDING POWER STEERING PUMP, RACK & PINION, TIE RODS, U-JOINTS COSTING $2000 OR MORE. CONTINUE TO SUFFER FROM GROANING, NOISY, & STIFF STEERING. ALSO ONGOING ENGINE PINGING UPON ACCELERATION AFTER NUMEROUS REPAIRS. RANDOM POWER SLIDING DOOR FUNCTION. METALLIC RATTLING, JINGLING NOISES FROM UNDER CAR BOTH WHEN IDLING & DRIVING. *TR

SPEEDOMETER, ODOMETER, AIR CONDITIONING, CRUISE CONTROL QUIT WORKING. ( APPROXIMATELY LATE FEBRUARY 2009) BRAKE LIGHT CONSTANTLY LIT. REAR PASSENGER COMPARTMENT FAN CONSTANTLY ON WHEN HEAT/AC ENGAGED. #10 FUSE BLOWN. FIX WAS ON 3/25/09---BRAKE PRESSURE DIFFERENTIAL DEACTIVATION SWITCH (2B264) AND PLUG AND FUSE #10 REPLACED. SOME LEAKAGE OF BRAKE FLUID WITH CORROSION EVIDENT TO MECHANIC, ALTHOUGH MINIMAL WIRE DAMAGE NOTED. MECHANIC BELIEVES THAT FLUID HAD JUST RECENTLY STARTED LEAKING. *TR

MULTIPLE ABS LIGHT PROBLEMS. MOST RECENT FIXED BY REPLACING BRAKE SWITCH AND HARNESS. STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS HAD CAUSED SHORTED FUSE WHICH KNOCKED OUT SPEEDOMETER, HEATER AND CRUISE CONTROL. THIS BILL WAS $336.86, AND IT'S THE FOURTH TIME WE'VE HAD ABS-RELATED PROBLEMS. RECALL NEEDED! *TR

THE ENGINE CRADLE HAS RUSTED OUT ON MY 1999 WINDSTAR VAN. THIS HAS OCCURRED DUE TO A FAULTY DESIGN BY FORD. AFTER RESEARCH I FOUND THAT THE AIR CONDITIONER LEAKS ON THE CRADLE CREATING A COMMON PROBLEM OF THE CRADLE RUSTING OUT. THIS CAN BE AND HAS BEEN RESULTING IN CAR ACCIDENT DEATHS. I WAS LUCKY. I HAD THE CAR AT THE FORD DEALERSHIP IN ENGLEWOOD FLORIDA(BAY HARBOR FORD) FOR ANOTHER PROBLEM AND THEY WENT TO PUT MY CAR ON THE LIFT AND THE CRADLE BROKE BECAUSE OF THE RUST. THEY ARE REPLACING THE CRADLE AND THEN CONTINUING ON THE REPAIRS. THE COST TO ME IS EXPECTED AROUND $2,200 OR MORE. THEY HAVE ORDERED A USED CRADLE. FORD INSPECTED MY CAR BEFORE I PURCHASE IT AND NEVER TOLD ME ABOUT THIS RUST PROBLEM. I PURCHASED THE VAN IN 2007- OCT BASED ON THEIR BLESSING THAT IT WAS A SOUND, SAFE VEHICLE AND WOULD LAST ME FOR AT LEAST ANTHER 200,000 MILES. *TR

APRIL 2008 LOST FUEL PUMP, AND GUAGE FOR GAS LEVEL HAD FUEL PUMP SENDING UNIT AND FILTER REPLACED BUT GAUGE DIDNT COME BACK IT STAYED ON AS A LOW FUEL LIGHT PERMANENTLY. BRAKE FLUID LEAKING OR EXCESSIVE USE BY BRAKING SYSTEM HAD TO FILL ABOUT ONCE WEEKLY BRAKES THOUGH THEY HAD BEEN REPLACED WOULD JUST GO OUT WITH NO WARNING ABS LIGHT WASNT INDICATIVE DUE TO FACT ITS LIGHTING UP AND STAYING LIT WAS ERRRATIC. REPLACED BRAKING SYSTEM AND FRONT END COMPONENTS (LINKAGE PINS GONE, ROTOR THAT HAD GOTTEN VERY HOT AND POSSIBLY STARTED ON FIRE DUE TO BRAKES GOING OUT AND HEAVY BREAKING NEEDED TO AVOID ACCIDENT DEATH HAD TO PUMP BRAKES RAPIDLY TO TRY TO STOP SOMETIMES UNABLE TO STOP BRAKE PEDAL WOULD STICK ON HARD PUMPING WHEN ATTEMPTING TO STOP PASSENGER SIDE SLIDING DOOR LOCK ENGAGED AND UNABLE TO ENGAGE. *TR

OUR 1999 WINDSTARS IDLING WHILE STATIONARY IN PARK OR WITH BRAKE DEPRESSED WOULD BECOME ERRATIC AND STALL, WITH BRAKES DEPRESSED WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT VEHICLE IN N TO TRY TO KEEP RPMS UP, VEHICLE STALL WHEN STARTED TO WARM UP THEN START UP AFTER TURNING KEY OFF THEN BACK ON THEN THE FUEL PUMP WENT OUT WE HAD TO GET THE WHOLE FUEL SYSTEM MINUS THE GAS TANK REPLACED(PUMP, FILTER,SENDING UNIT) BUT WHEN IT WAS REPAIRED WE DIDNT GET THE FUEL GAGE BACK AND THE MECHANIC COULDNT FIND WHY. THEN WE HAD STATIC COMING THRU THE SPEAKERS WHILE VEHICLE WAS OFF AND CONTINUED WHILE DRIVING AND JUST STOPPED AS SOON AS STARTED, THEN OUR BATTERY WAS CONSTANTLY DEAD WE HAD JUST BOUGHT A NEW BATTERY SO WE HAD TO UNHOOK AND HOOK UP THE CABLES EVERYTIME WE DROVE OR BATTERY WOULD DIE .THEN THE INTERIOR LAMPS WOULD NOT GO OFF AT TIMES WE HAD TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE OFF ON THE DIAL AT ALL TIMES THEY WOULD SOMETIMES COME ON WHILE WE WERE DRIVING AND NOT GO OFF. THEN WE STARTED HAVING BRAKE PROBLEMS FROM THE ABS SENSOR TO EXCESSIVE FLUID LOSS AND PADS(TWICE WITHIN A COUPLE MONTHS) AND DRUMS NEEDING COMPLETELY REPAIRED BRAKE LIGHTS THAT WOULDNT GO OFF EXCEPT WHEN VEHICLE WAS TURNED OFF ABS SENSOR FLASHING/STAYING ON, WE HAD PROBLEMS STARTING VEHICLE BUT WHEN WE TOOK IT IN STARTER, ALTERNATOR, BATTERY WERE FINE IT WOULD TAKE 30 MINS OR MORE TO GET VEHICLE TO START BUT IT WOULD CRANK OVER, ONE DAY IT STALLED AND WOULDNT START WE TOOK IT IN AND WERE TOLD THE FP(9 MOS OLD) AND PCM FUSE WAS BLOWING. WE HAD THE FUEL PUMP REPLACED BUT WAS STILL PULLING 16 AMPS IT RAN FOR ABOUT 60 MILES AND DIED. NEW FUSE AND WHILE DRIVING GUAGES WENT HAYWIRE,VAN DIED,WHILE FILLING WITH BROWN SMOKE MY SON AND I WERE IN IT BOTH HAVE ASTHMA AND DR SAID TO KEEP HIM HOME TIL HE FELT BETTER(HE WAS COMPLAINIG OF BEING TIRED AND SICK ) ALL MECHANICS AGRRED IT WAS WIRING BUT COULDNT FIND BAD WIRES, MISSING GROUNDS ANYWHERE IN THE VEHICLE OBDII DIDNT HELP. PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LOSS OF VEHICLE, INSIDE RUINED WINDOW COULDNT BE PUT UP. *TR

I HAVE A 1999 FORD WINDSTAR SEL WITH TRACTION CONTROL THAT I PURCHASED NEW JANUARY OF 1999. IT HAS NEVER BEEN OUTSIDE OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND IS STORED INSIDE. CURRENT MILEAGE IS 140,000. THIS ABS PROBLEM STARTED AFTER WARRANTY PERIOD EXPIRED AT APPROX 39,000 MILES. THE VAN DEVELOPED AN "ABS" LIGHT AND "TRAC OFF" LIGHT. DEALERSHIP DIAGNOSIS WAS A "FAULTY ABS MASTER RELAY" (CODE C1185 AS WELL AS SEVERAL OTHERSREQUIRING A NEW ABS MODULE TO THE TUNE OF MORE THAN 1200$. WITH THE OTHER PROBLEMS IE: HAVING TO REPLACE THE VACUUM HOSES, INTAKE MANIFOLD, VALVE COVER, DOOR SEALS, HEATER BLEND DOOR, INTERIOR LIGHT FLICKERING, AND TRANSMISSION 3 TIMES OVER THE LAST 9 YEARS, THIS WAS ONE FIX WE ELECTED TO FORGO AS I PERFORM ALL MAINTENANCE OUTSIDE THE DEALERSHIP AND THIS SI A DEALER ONLY FIX. I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING THIS FOR YEARS WITH INTEREST AND JUST NOW DECIDED TO FILE AS THERE APPEARS TO BE THOUSANDS WITH THIS SAME PROBLEM. DASH LIGHTS HAVE BEEN ON FOR THE LAST 100,000 MILES. APPARENT PROBLEM AS FOUND ON WEB - ABS ECM FAILURE - ABS BRAKE LIGHT. THE ISSUE OF THE ABS BRAKE LIGHT IS CRITICAL IN THAT THE ABS BRAKE SYSTEM DOES NOT FUNCTION AS DESIGNED BY FORD. THE ISSUE IS CAUSED BY HEAT IN THE ABS (ANTI-LOCK BRAKE SYSTEM) ECM (ELECTRONIC CONTROL MODULE) (2C219) MODULE CAUSING EXPANSION OF A LARGE ALUMINUM PLATE (HEAT SINK) IN THE ECM WHICH IS ATTACHED TO THE ECM MAIN CIRCUIT BOARD AT ALL POINTS. THE EXPANSION OCCURS WHEN THE UNIT GETS WARM ESPECIALLY IN THE SUMMER MONTHS AND CAUSES INTERMITTENT ELECTRICAL CONNECTION IN THE UNIT BECAUSE THE FRAGILE BOARD IS BEING STRETCHED AND MALFORMED. THE CODE MOST COMMONLY SCANNED BY PROFESSIONAL MECHANICS IS CODE C1185. SEEN BY US OWNERS AS A YELLOW ABS BRAKE LIGHT. *TR

TL*THE CONTACT OWNS A 1999 FORD WINDSTAR. WHILE PERFORMING AN OIL CHANGE, THE MECHANIC NOTICED A CRACK IN THE AXLE OF THE VEHICLE. THE AXLE WAS CRACKED IN HALF AND THE VEHICLE IS CURRENTLY NOT BEING DRIVEN. THE DEALER AND MANUFACTURER HAVE NOT BEEN NOTIFIED. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 120,000.