1996 Ford Crown Victoria: engine overheating

Filed Nov 18, 2011 · Acceleration, Electrical · 35 miles · AZ

I purchase my vehicle on october 24th, 2011 from a private party who said, "the coolant leak", but the vehicle over heated when I drove it home less than 3 miles away the hood of my car was smoking. After taking it to a local mechanic with my friend who drove his car to ensure my safety, my car began to over heat after driving it for 10 minutes! I was so frantic that I thought I was going to burned up in the car. The mechanic told me the next day it was the intake manifold and inform me that this may be a recall and to check with the ford corporation and I did called ford corporation and found out this vehicle had control cruise harness and a intake manifold recall id is 01m02, the dealership for camelback ford in phoenix, mr. Chad mcdowell offer this recall number but his employee [xxx] offer to help me fix the both problems, then later on negated. I feel a recall of any vehicle should never be expired base on these issues of safety and regardless of a settlement that may have been reached, there are millions of people who need to have their vehicle repair to make it at least a whole again as much as possible and avoid a possible injury or death. I found the recall of this intake manifold offering consumer up to $ 750 to repair the car without any receipts? What about the people who purchase the vehicle afterwards, is that fair. Now my concern is that I am smelling gasoline when I am driving and I believed it may have something to do with the gas line or the sensor, and I hate putting more money into the vehicle. I fear that the mechanic will tell me its going to be a costly matter and it's never going to stop with this car and I just want to get rid of it or have it repair as it should of been by the dealership but the ford company would not approve it. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).

Filed Apr 14, 2008 · Acceleration, Engine · 111,000 miles · AR

Tl*the contact owns a 1996 ford crown victoria. While driving 10-15 MPH, the thermostat stuck and became hot. The vehicle overheated and the intake manifold failed. The contact received a safety recall notice for the vehicle speed control. The vehicle has not been taken to the dealer because it cannot be driven. The purchase date and recall number were unknown. The current and failure mileages were 111,000.

Filed Sep 21, 2006 · Engine · 100,614 miles · IL

My wife while traveling to visit her son in a distant city, she pulled into a shopping center to call him, he lived nearby. He came to the shopping center in an effort to lead her to his residence. When leaving she noticed smoke and thought the vehicle caught fire. Further investigation proved it was an ant-ifreeze leak. The failure was the intake manifold produced of an inferior material (nylon) a crack developed at 100614 miles causing the antifreeze to leak out and overheat the engine and cause more damage. Within several day the auto went to the repair shop and the intake manifold was replaced a substantial cost. There was no recall present with this event however ford motor company had a class action suit with this event as its center piece. Unfortunately the failure on my ford occurred after the class action suit expired. The suit was limited by a time frame. My thought is all nylon manifold will fail far short of the expectations of the life of the engine.

Filed Jul 18, 2006 · Engine · 59,000 miles · IN

I have a 96 ford crown vic I drove it home from work fine with no problems then I drove it to take my son to work it started to overheat there was no indication something was wrong. Then the temp went up and check engine light came on. I have change the thermostat but it still is over heating and water is coming out the exhaust and seems to be spitting out from top of motor. This car has only 59,00 miles on it.

Filed Aug 20, 2004 · Engine · 135,142 miles · MS

I own a 1996 ford crown victoria lx, on aug. 13th, 2004 the car overheated. There was a small crack in the plastic intake manifold. Upon investigating this, it was found there are numerous complaints but ford only repaired vechicles owned by police and taxis. The cost to repair their defect is over $800. I believe us consumers should be reimbursed for ford defective plastic intake manifold. The recall for the police and taxis was 01m02. *ak

Filed Feb 20, 2004 · Engine · 114,000 miles · DE

While driving and without warning coolant leaked from intake manifold.

Filed Sep 24, 2002 · Fuel system · NV

Consumer states while driving 50mph the intake manifold failed.*jb consumer stated that sudden failure of intake manifold caused the vehicle to overheat. The intake manifold was on recall, but the manufacturer refused to honor the recall.

Filed Sep 5, 2002 · Engine · MI

Consumer states the vehicle overheated and there was loss of coolant while driving, due to a crack in the intake manifold. Dealer and the manufacturer were notified. Feel free to provide any further information.

Filed Jul 2, 2002 · Fuel system · OH

How many complaints are required before a recall is issued, forcing a manufacturer to make repairs for a manufacturer to make repairs for a manufacturing defect ? On your site, there are 24 complaints about the same coolant leaking problem with the plastic intake manifold on ford's 4.6l engines. Why was the action already taken only applied to police vehicles ? I'm sure the leak is the same problem we all have had. Mine is number 25 and these are only the owners who have taken the time to pursue the issue with the federal safety agency. My cost for the part alone is $650.00. Since this is an obvious manufacturing defect and ford has changed the design of the replacement part, I feel the manufacturer should be required to repair it for free.

Filed Jul 1, 2002 · Fuel system · MN

While driving intake manifold cracked and was leaking anti freeze, causing engine to overheat. Contacted dealer ,and dealer wasnot willing to do anything.

Filed Jun 30, 2002 · Engine · GA

This component is historically made from cast iron or aluminum. The water chamber blew out because it was made from plastic. It caused excess vapor to come from hood. Failure was catastrophic and with no warning. Engine overheated immediately. The parts person at the dealer now performing the service (I was out of town when this happened to me) told me that they stock this part because of the constant failure. There have been recalls issued on other models with the same part but not on my specific model apparently. This should have been replaced proactively by the mfg. Based on the present failure rates.

Filed May 7, 2002 · Engine · MD

There is a strong antifreeze smell while driving, then, power steering started slipping. Vehicle was towed to dealer, cracked intake manifold needed to be replaced.*ak consumer states when pulling over, the engine was steaming from a crack in the intake manifold just behind the alternator, engine coolant was spraying onto the alternator and belt, the coolant leak disabled the power steering unit, the spark plug wires had also been contaminated due to the coolant leak and the thermostat had to be replaced.