Dt: while braking the vehicle lurches forward and then it shuts down, which causes limited steering and braking abilities. The consumer has taken the vehicle to the dealer approximately three times, and was told that they couldn't do anything about it unless the problem occurred for them. On may 30, 2005 the consumer was driving the vehicle and had to brake because of the traffic in front of him, when this occurred, the vehicle lurched forward and the engine just cut out, like it was never started. This caused the consumer's vehicle to rear end the vehicle in front of him. The vehicle was taken to a body shop and it was repaired. The consumer spoke to ford and was told that there was nothing they could do. *ak *jb *nm per consumer, none of the above is accurate. The consumer wrote: while braking, the RPM revved up, the vehicle lurched forward, then the RPM dropped and the engine had shut down. The check engine light illuminated. It would take several attempts to start the vehicle . This would occur intermittently. Each time the consumer had taken the vehicle in for repairs, the dealer would be unable to find the problem. Other problems: the cruise control was inoperative and the vehicle would die when the brakes were applied at times. Ford recalled the same make model years 2003-2005. The consumer felt that the recall started with his vehicle's year make and model. *sc
2000 Ford F-250 SD acceleration complaints
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Occupants were driving the vechicle when all of a sudden it started to flame up. The fire was put out. But before that was completed the fire had consumed the wiring harnesses, fuse panel, cruise deactivaction mech. And misc. Other components, computer etc. Shortly after this ford was on the news about a recall of the exact thing that had happened to this truck. At the time there was only liability insurance on the vechicle. It was paid for... And that is all that is required. Except for the fact when ford don't want to cover their mistakes... In conclusion ford says it is not the right type of truck but if the cruise mechanisim is what caused the fire and then they do a recall I think they should be responsibile for the item in question, no matter what year they say......
Parked vehicle about and 25 minutes later smoke was coming from under the hood of the vehicle. Opened the hood to find the cruise control servo was smoking. Disconnected the wires to the servo and it stopped. Haad the burned part for inspection. During the trip before the fire the cruise control light on the dashboard was coming on and off and was not used. *ak the consumer stated that the cancel switch was leaking.
April 2004. Faulty cable in steeing column. This cable causes a failure which disables the driver side air bag it also disables the horn and cruise control. After going to several discussion forums this is a common problem affecting 100's perhaps 100 of ford super duty f250, f350 vehicle. Per the chat pages ford was able to get around this issue by stating the faulty cabling effects the cruise control only. This is a misconseption. Also based on these chat pages this problem effects most f250,350 from 1999 - 2003. The average failure timeline is 45000 - 70000 milies. Mine occured at 68000.
The air bag light was on when the vehicle was delivered, required replacement of the air bag module on two occasions.
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