1993 Ford F-150: adaptive cruise control problems

Filed Mar 15, 2010 · Acceleration · 180,000 miles · MI

Tl*the contact owns a 1993 ford f150. While driving approximately 65 MPH the contact attempted to activate the cruise control and noticed that it failed to engaged . Prior to the recent failure the vehicle was taken to the dealership where the federal safety agency campaign id number 08v051000 (vehicle speed control: cruise control) was performed on the vehicle. The contact stated that the cruise control operated properly before the recall service repair. The vehicle was taken to the dealership where the contact was informed that no failures could be found. The vehicle had not been repaired at the time of the complaint. The failure mileage was 180,000. Updated 4/26/10 *cn updated 05/06/10.

Filed Mar 18, 2008 · Acceleration · NM

Fax from senator on behalf of constituent re problems with ford vehicle cruise control fires. *kb the consumer received a recall notice for his 1993 ford f150 in august 2007. The consumer has been unable to get the problem fixed, due to lack of parts.

Filed Mar 3, 2008 · Acceleration · WI

Tl*the contact owns a 1993 ford f150. The contact received a recall notice for the vehicle speed control: cruise control. He was informed that the parts for the recall repair will be unavailable until june of 2008. There had been no failure to date. The recall number was unknown. The current mileage was 64,500.

Filed Jan 2, 2008 · Acceleration · AL

Tl*the contact owns a 1993 ford f150. The contact received a recall notice in august of 2007 for the vehicle speed control: cruise control. He took the vehicle to the dealer to have the deactivation switch disconnected and they stated that they did not know when ford would release the parts to have the recall completed. As of january 2, 2008, the parts are still unavailable. There had been no failure to date. The current mileage was 109,000.

Filed Sep 6, 2007 · Acceleration · 140,000 miles · MS

Tl*the contact owns a 1993 ford f150. The contact stated that the cruise control was difficult to engage while driving 70 MPH or greater. The cruise control button had to be pressed repeatedly for it to engage. The current mileage was 191,000 and failure mileage was 140,000.

Filed Jan 8, 2007 · Acceleration · 144,000 miles · TN · fire

I was driving north (on cruise control approx. 55 MPH) on I 75 near mile marker 78 when my 1993 ford f150 starting smoking under the hood. I pulled over and opened the hood and saw the engine in flames. I had a fire extinguisher in the cab so I used it to put out the fire. There was also a trail of fire under the truck that a good samaritan extinguised after he stopped to help. I called aaa to tow my truck to a local firestone service center for repairs. I bought this vehicle new in 1993 and never had any recall on it. I found out today from my insurance company that there is a defect w/ the cruise control switch on this model ford truck.

Filed Sep 13, 2005 · Acceleration · PA · fire

Dt: the contact owns a 1993 ford explorer. The contact stated that on september 3, 2005 vehicle caught on fire. The fire was reported to the insurance company, and because the contact did not have full coverage nothing was covered by them. Also, the fire was reported to ford . The fire occurred while the vehicle was parked for four hours. The contact's husband was home while this happened and he saw flames and called 911, the fire department/police department reported to the scene. The fire caused damage to the contact's house because the siding melted from the heat of the fire. The cruise control was identified as the cause of the fire. Although the mechanic could not find a problem with the cruise control it would not automatically shut off by pressing the brakes. Had to switch it to off. The cruise control had been a problem with the vehicle for a couple of months prior to the fire.

Filed Aug 18, 2005 · Acceleration · NC · fire

Dt: the fire occured august 17 2005.the owner was sleeping when wife woke him up and told the truck was on fire. Then ,the owner instructed the wife to call fire department while owner sprayed the fire with the water hose. The truck was parked in front of house on the street. The fire was coming from the driver's side engine compartment near the steering wheel. The fire had reached the cab, with flames that covered the hood. The whole inside of the engine compartment is melted. The fire melted the driver's side tire and explode. The windshield and cab are burned up as well. The owner was spraying the fire as fast as he could to keep the fire away from the gas tank which was totally full. The fire department arrived about fifteen minutes later. The fire department took about 10 or fifteen minutes to extinguish the fire. The police arrived after fire was extinguished and determined that the fire would be investigated by the fire department and so they did not file a report. The chief of fire department advised owner that he would send a report to the owner as soon as it was done. The chiefadvised owner that they couldn't say for sure but it looked like an electrical fire. There was no other property damage. The truck had been sitting for about 7 hours after being driven about 10-15 minutes.recall wa sissued on cruise control.

Filed Jan 29, 2005 · Acceleration · TX

I have a '93 ford f150 half ton 4 wheel drive pickup. About a year ago as I was approaching an intersection my brakes failed to work. I pumped them vigorously, and then only marginally they slowed me down. Fortunately no one else was approaching the intersection. I made it to my mechanics shop and upon inspection he discovered the cruise control switch (my cruise control had stopped working a few weeks before) was shorting out, was charred black, and had been boiling the brake fluid in the brake line which was connected to it. This put air bubbles of vaporized brake fluid in the line which kept them from functioning properly. He disconnected the power supply to it and a few days later installed a new switch when it arrived. This happened almost a year ago and since then I have had no problems with it. At the time I just thought it was a fluke but now it scarces me to think it could happen to other people as well and I didn't warn anyone about it.

Filed Oct 24, 2003 · Acceleration · LA

The vehicle had a problem with the cruise control. The speed was set at 55 MPH. Driver hit resume and the vehicle accelerated rapidly. The vehicle failed to disengage.

Filed Mar 1, 1999 · Acceleration · AL

Cruise control failed causing the vehicle to suddenly accelerate.

Filed Feb 2, 1999 · Acceleration, Brakes · KS

While driving at 55 MPH the cruise control engaged and opened the throttle wide open. The brakes were applied and eventually faded and failed. Vehicle was stopped by putting the vehicle in neutral (engine raced) and shutting off the engine. Husband restarted engine about 1/2 hour later, the engine did not race. Husband limped the truck home and on the way was able to recreate the uncontrolled acceleration only once. Confirmed it was the cruise control,since the pedal pulled away from husband's foot. Note: the brakes did not shut down the cruise circut either by the primary shut off (brake light switch) or the secondary backup shut off (brake line pressure switch). Highway patrol stopped to offer assistance which was declined after husband arrived. Note for office personnel: my wife submitted this over the phone on 07jan199, but there were so many errors that I am resubmitting this. Ref number on mailed form: 833146.