Ford Crown Victoria fire or smoke problems

Filed Mar 16, 2020 · Body, Electrical · 45,000 miles · LA · fire

I drove my car to work. I parked it on the side of the street. When I got out hours later it had caught on fire.

Filed Apr 1, 2019 · Airbags · TX

Air bag light stays on. There be smoke coming from the steering wheel when driving sometime. And the air bag light sometimes flash on and off but now it's just on and not going off

Filed Feb 28, 2018 · Engine · 160,000 miles · LA · fire

Tl* the contact owns a 1998 ford crown victoria. While driving approximately 45 MPH, the contact noticed smoke under the hood of the vehicle. The contact coasted the vehicle to the side of the road and notice flames underneath the vehicle. The fire was extinguished by the fire department. There were no warning indicators illuminated. The vehicle was towed to a towing lot. The vehicle was not taken to a dealer or independent mechanic to determine the cause of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was not contacted. The approximate failure mileage was 160,000.

Filed Jan 7, 2018 · Acceleration, Engine · 112,845 miles · OK · fire

After driving 30 miles, I parked the car in the driveway at my home. Approximately 10 minutes later, I was informed that the car was on fire under the engine hood. I attempted to unlatch the hood but was unable to due to the unlatch cable being destroyed by the fire. The fire had melted a big hole in the hood at the left rear corner and had destroyed the windshield in the same area. I was only able to extinguish the fire by using a water hose and squirting the water through the melted hole in the hood hole. I believe that the cruise control had leaked fluid on the engine in the area of the left rear spark plug and had started the fire which had melted all the components in the area on the firewall area. The cruise control was inoperable during my previous drive.

Filed Jul 28, 2017 · Steering · 70,000 miles · IL

While driving home today power steering suddenly went out almost impossible to steer car when I stopped there appeared to be smoke coming from vehicle

Filed Jul 10, 2017 · Lights · 127,152 miles · GA

Tl* the contact owns a 2004 ford crown victoria. While driving 45 MPH, the running lights in the front and rear of the vehicle became inoperable. The vehicle was taken to a local dealer (thomasville ford lincoln 1515 east jackson street, thomasville, ga 31792) where it was diagnosed that the lcm harness failed and needed to be repaired. The vehicle was repaired per the federal safety agency campaign number: 15v861000 (exterior lighting), but the failure recurred. The contact also stated that he witnessed visible smoke coming from under the dashboard. The manufacturer was contacted and provided case number: cas12683333. The failure mileage was approximately 127,152.

Filed May 2, 2017 · Acceleration, Driver assistance · 120,000 miles · IN

Hold latch broke a number of days ago, one day driving 60mph on the highway the hood flew up and smashed my windshield. A few months later my fuel pump caught on fire, I had no idea until I got under the car because it didn't want to start. I'm glad to be alive from the fire, the car could have blown up! My ABS brake light is on as well! Last night I was reading up on some forums and I found out that ford was trying to hide these issue's!!!!! Don't believe me? Look for your self http://bit.ly/2qtidtt thats the url, copy it and paste it in your browser!! I will include it in my pictures as well. They tryed to hide the problem by putting an inline fuse to make it a little bit "safer"!!! My car hasnt been to the dealership in forever and they never got to fix the problem they hid from every one!! Ill show you in the pictures. Please investigate this problem!!! The inline fuse is still hooked up to my speed control deactivation switch, and the original switch is still in car and this is where the problem. My son stumbled across this when he couldn't find the original connector for the original fuel pump that I ordered a few days ago that was hard to find. They changed the original fuel pump to a new one with a different connector. One of their recalls was faulty connectors. The connector on my car was the original and that is what caused my fuel pump to catch fire. The hood latch I didn't know was a recall and it broke a while back, I didn't think nothing of it until my hood flew up and smashed my windshield!! Please tell me I'm not the only one who caught onto this! Please help and investigate!!! My son thinks it all stemmed from the program speed control system and the leaking speed control deactivation switch (scds).

Filed Nov 20, 2015 · Steering · 42,000 miles · MA · crash · fire

Driving east on allen street in springfield massachusetts steering control locked up resulting in a crash with a gas station pump police crash report id 15-3725-AC car was totalled out when it caught fire no noise was heard seconds before crash. I have noticed that there was a recall on the replacement parts but wonder if the oem parts could fail resulting in crash.

Filed Dec 30, 2014 · Electrical · 132,421 miles · PA · fire

I had driven up a steep mountain dirt road to serve some legal papers, after reaching the top, I continued down the other side to the address I was looking for. I thought I started smelling something burning, it smelled electrical. When I arrived at the address, I stopped the car and shut it off while I was speaking with the resident. My wife yelled at me that the car was on fire, it started filling up with smoke fast, my wife and dogs were still in the car. I opened the drivers door to pop the hood while my wife started getting the dogs out, I then noticed it was my floor that was burning, just about under the gas peddle, a hole had burned through and the metal was glowing red where the padding had burned away. I poured a cup of coffee to put the fire out while the resident got some water for me. The padding and rubber mat had burned away and a hole about 3 inches long had melted away from the floor board. The catalytic converter is directly beneath the hole but there doesn't seem to be any holes in the converter and there is a empty space about 1.5 - 2 inches from the melted hole to the converter. We let everything cool down before driving home, however the entire way home, (49 miles) we were afraid the car was going to burst into flames. Once we were back on the paved roads and were able to drive the normal speed limit, there were no more issues nor any further burning, just the lingering smell. I looked up and found a recall for an issue in the same location however that was for 2003 - 2005 vehicles.

Filed Oct 29, 2014 · Engine · 199,000 miles · NY

I was on vacation coming home and the car started to pull then let go and the engine light cam on then car locked up on the high way few seconds latter their was thick white smoke coming from the hood of the car and threw the vents inside the car. I turned the hazard lights on and got out of the car on a heavy high way the car smoked for about 20-40 minutes, after it faded I opened the hood to find the ( manifold intake ) broke spraying the coolant all over the engine and electrical under the hood of the car. I see online their has been other complaints and ford fixing them only in the hotter states as I live in ny but was in texas when this happened. Also when this happened I had no place to pull off the road as I was in congested traffic / busy highway - I am lucky I didn't get hit by a car. Ford motor company I know you know of the issue !!!