Upon driving on the freeway, my vehicle suddenly has a loss of power and the instrument panel shows both a check engine , and wrench light. I either have to pull over to restart the vehicle or put the vehicle in neutral, and restart the car as it is rolling. This is an everyday occurance for a little over a year. The dealership mechanic said there has been many complaints attributed to the throttle body sensor; therefore, a recall of that part should the thing to come! Unfortunately, it never happened.
2006 Ford 500 acceleration complaints
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Tl* the contact owns a 2006 ford 500. While driving 34 MPH, the vehicle accelerated independently and the engine stalled. The vehicle was towed to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the throttle body needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 97,200.
There was a recall on the throttle body I took my car to my local ford dealer they said that they clean the throttle body and reset the computer in my car. And before I got home with it my car almost stop on me in the middle of the streets and would not go over 10 miles per hour, I call the dealership back and told them what happen they said the recall was only for cleaning an resetting the computer and the oem. And I had to pay for the replacement of the throttle body.well my car does not have over 150,000 miles and it is not over 10 years old. The extended warrant says. To replace or clean. My question is should I pay for my repairs. Or is it still covered by the warranty?.
Was pulling out of my ally onto a very busy street and the car just died! I had enough speed to pull into a side street. I had received a recall notice and took it in due to the car accelerating upon putting it in drive or reverse. I took it in and the "reprogrammed" the throttle actuator which is attached to the throttle body. It cost me $417.00 just to replace the whole throttle body. I spoke with the dealership about this but was told that by them reprogramming it they did their part.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 ford 500. The contact stated that while driving 30 MPH, the vehicle stalled and the ignition indicator light illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle was merged to the side of the road and restarted. The failure recurred ten minutes later. The manufacturer was not contacted. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic. The technician diagnose that the throttle body needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired but the failure returned. The failure mileage was 119,000 and the current mileage 120,000.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 ford 500. The contact stated that while driving approximately 45 MPH, the service sensor warning light illuminated prior to the vehicle suddenly decelerating to approximately 10 MPH. The contact pulled off the roadway and later restarted the vehicle, and the defect was corrected. The vehicle was diagnosed by an independent mechanic and an authorized dealer, who both indicated that the throttle body needed to be replaced. The dealer cleaned the throttle body and updated the PCM but the vehicle continued to experience the defect. The manufacturer was not notified in reference to the defect. The failure mileage was 54,000.
The throttle body was replaced once due to random car surging. Problem resurfaced a year later. This time ford said it was the alternator ($570). I don't think ford knows what's wrong with this car, but there is a safety issue. The car surges randomly.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 ford 500. The contact stated that while driving various speeds, the vehicle surged with the illumination of the check engine warning light. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for diagnosis where it was stated that the throttle body and gasket needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired and the manufacturer was notified. The approximate failure mileage was 66,000.
The first incident was when I was driving in town. I was stopping for a light and the car surged. Later, as I was applying the brake, the car, jerked and surged. I had a recall notice of an RPM surge, so we took it into the dealership and they supposedly repaired the problem with a computer adjustment. About 2 weeks later, on the highway at about 65-70 MPH my husband started to pass an 18-wheeler and when he accelerated, there was a hesitancy and then, the transmission "caught" and we were able to pass. Periodically, since that time, I have noticed what feels like a slipping of the transmission.
The car accelerates without warning when in gear, but stopped as in backing out of a parking space or sitting at a red light. It appears to be associated with running the air conditioner. It is very scary and I have had many close calls in hitting the car in front of me or even a pedestrian walking behind my vehicle in a parking lot.
The car has been accelerating and shutting down on the interstate in the middle of traffic. I contacted ford and they advised me to take it to the dealership to be fixed. To this date it has not. We received a recall to clean the throttle body and the dealership did and that is it. Less than 50 miles later the car shut down in traffic with my two small children in there. That could have been a tragedy. Took it back to the dealership and the dealer said to drive it and bring it back to clear the codes out. The codes of p2112, p2114 & p2104 all showed. When I contact ford's customer service department they told me if the codes showed then it would be covered for replacement and it is not.
You can be driving 15 MPH to 70mph and the vehicle will stall it's still running but won't go you can turn the key off and restart the vehicle and it goes. But it may go 2 feet or 20 miles I'm a auto tech I cleaned the throttle body like ford said and ford reprogrammed the PCM and that did not help. The vehicle still stalls going down the road and you have to pull over and kill it and restart the vehicle. Ford just put a lot of bad parts on these five hundreds mainly the throttle body.
Tl* the contact owns a 2006 ford 500. The contact stated that the vehicle stalled while driving 35 MPH. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who cleaned the throttle body and reprogrammed the PCM however, the vehicle continued to stall. The check engine and the wrench warning lights illuminated prior to the vehicle failure. The manufacturer was notified and advised the contact that the throttle body cleaning would be at their expense one time only. The failure mileage was 129,000.
On several occasions the vehicle would not go or extremely late response then lunge forward when commanded by pressing the accelerator. Often times when you are turning in front of other traffic. I have had several near misses with being stuck in an intersection or a very delayed throttle response lunging me into on coming traffic. The car goes into limp mode or the transmission seems to act up after this happens. I get a check engine light and a wrench light on the dash. Also the car has had uncommanded engine speeds at a stop sign or redlight. Seemed to happen more often when turning the wheel or the A/C is on. Also very dangerous. I have three kids I have to drive around and I feel unsafe in it. I have seen these exact same issues with this car all over the internet addressing faulty electronic throttle bodies and the CVT transmission. There needs to be a recall before some thing happens.
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