This data is from the NHTSA — the US gov't agency tasked with vehicle safety. Complaints are spread across multiple & redundant categories, & are not organized by problem.
So how do you find out what problems are occurring? For this NHTSA complaint data, the only way is to read through the comments below. Any duplicates or errors? It's not us.
The contact owns a 2000 Ford F-350. The contact stated that he attempted to accelerate, but the vehicle would not respond. The vehicle had not been diagnosed by the dealer and no repairs were made. The failure and current mileages were 182,000.
2000 F250 sd 7.3 diesel incident date 2/15/2010 2/12/2010 I took my truck into the dealer to get a oil change and a recall fixed on the cruise control. That morning when I started it up, it had a noise when I turned the wheel, when I brought it in, they said the gasket on my power steering had gone bad, and I needed a complete replacement of my power steering pump. Now is when the real problem starts... I had not experienced this problem prior to the dealer visit. All of the sudden when I drive on the highway, any rough road sends it into uncontrollable shaking, I thought I was going to lose complete control of the truck, it could easily cause an accident. I looked for this problem on the internet, and found this is a problem for many Ford sd drivers, and as others have put it, Ford won't do anything until the deaths out way the recall cost. It is up to people like you, to keep us safe, and make these car companies fix their problem vehicles before there are too many deaths. I am sure there has to of been an accident caused by this problem, very possibly 1 or more deaths, I know of one person with this problem on the website caused a 3 car accident. I called the dealer, they want to come to my home and drive it to the dealership, I said I would have it towed in, but they want to drive it, which makes me uncomfortable, since I am liable for what happens with my truck. There has been no modifications done to this vehicle, and the tires are the appropriate tires and they are filled with the proper air pressure.
I have a 2000 model Ford F-150. My cruise control went out and maybe a month or less later I came home one night and about 30 minutes after I went into the house I heard a loud bang. When we looked out the door my truck was a ball of flames. The loud bang I had heard was the tire popping. I never received a recall notice for the cruise control switch and knew nothing about it shortly after I got the truck I had it at the dealership and they told me nothing about this recall when I asked if the truck had any. All I was told is that there was one on the parking brake.
The contact owns a 2000 Ford F350. The dealer stated that the parts for NHTSA campaign id number 07V336000 (vehicle speed control) would be unavailable until December of 2007. The contact felt that the wait time for the part was excessive. There had been no failure to date. The current mileage was 31,100. The consumer was told there was a 6-8 month wait to have the repair made. Updated 12/12/07.
While getting on express way, with out warning, vehicle will accelerate to 65-68 mph; this resulted in all lights to illuminate on dash board. This cause a failure of the brakes and a rear end collision. Nlm
While driving at state speed limit, and without warning, the vehicle started to accelerate up to 65-68 mph. Consumer had applied brakes when acceleration occurs, however brakes failed. Nlm
While approaching the highway, brakes were applied, the ABS light came on, then brakes locked up and engine failed to slow down causing brakes to go in ABS, consumer ran into another vehicle and started to push the other vehicle two lanes length. Consumer applied park brake and vehicle stopped. Contacted dealer and the dealer could not find the cause.
While driving on highway and slowing down to make a turn, vehicle started making loud noises. Also, steering got hard to turn, and had no brakes. Pulled over and shut vehicle off. Started it back up and everything was fine. Another time wife had the vehicle, went to stop at a red light, and vehicle went straight through the intersection into the ditch. Had no power brakes or steering. Contacted dealer.
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- Munford, AL, USA