2005 Ford Five Hundred brakes complaints

Filed Oct 25, 2005 · Brakes, Suspension · IL

Ford five hundred 2005 with brake failure, defective radio, driver side window regulator replaced twice. *** no answer required*** *ts there was a noise in the rear end of the vehicle, the left rear brake caliper at the piston seal was leaking.

Filed Oct 17, 2005 · Brakes · 800 miles · PA

Dt: the parking brake in the rear wheel area did not release properly. The contact noticed the problem in the middle of september 2005. He could smell a hot odor inside of the vehicle. The wheels were aluminum, and the rear wheels were black from brake lining dust. The contact took vehicle to a dealership twice. They were unable to find the cause of the problem with the parking brake. The contact will be taking the vehicle to deale r again. The contact noticed groves forming on the brake rotors. *ak updated 11/29/05.

Filed Sep 4, 2005 · Brakes, Suspension · 3,500 miles · CO

Continuation of suspension and brake problems after last filing with the federal safety agency. Braking in wet weather, descending steep grade, car pulls and fades. 2 days after longmont ford had car for 6 days and returned it with clean bill of health. Omera ford diagnosed brake and transmission programming problems and once again turned down rear rotors to very close to minimum specifications. Consumer report jan 2005 reports similar issues with braking, auto-week may-16-2005 reports brake fade and stability problems in their test track report. This is a first model year car for ford which is based off of a modified volvo design of under-carriage. The vehicle is now parked with an affidavit of non use on it because of the number of incidents and repairs that have occurred on rear suspension and brakes. Ford at arbitration maintained that in late july there were more tsb's issued for the 2005 ford 500, but I am unable to find same on the federal safety agency website. With the number of independent trade and consumer publications that site the same issues that I am having with this car, I petition the federal safety agency to pull some of these early model cars and subject them to suspension and braking test as stated in the federal safety agency 99.6583-1 consumer braking information initiative, aberdeen test center fall 1998.

Filed Jul 26, 2005 · Brakes · OH

I noticed shimmy in front end while applying brakes, and grinding noise from right rear at the same time.there was a squeak in the rear suspension going over the slightest bumps. The car had 1443 miles on it. I took it to the dealer and left it for the day. Their response was, customer states vibration when braking, test drove and resurfaced front rotors. Customer states right rear brake grabs, test drove and could not duplicate customers concern at this time. Customer states there is a squeak noise going over bumps, seems to be coming from the rear. Per ssm18479, ford engineering is looking into this concern, we have applied krytox grease to suspension. The 2nd visit to the dealership, 3429 miles on car, it had a hesitation when accelerating, still having right rear brake grinding, extremely excessive brake dust on right rear wheel. Dealer response, customer states there is a hesitation on acceleration, test drove to verify concern/vehicle did hesitate on rolling take off. Diag. System and found no codes/checked pidsall ok checked oasis and found tsb 05 11 08 performed tsb reprogrammed PCM/TCM, rechecked, all ok. Customer states right rear brakes seem to be dragging, excessive dust. Checked right rear brake for sticking/checked ebrake system and found working ok/checked brake caliper for binding and caliper slides and pad slides, all ok. Could not duplicate customers concern at this time. The car has 4700 miles on it now, still has extremely heavy brake dust on the right rear wheel, still feels and sounds like it is grinding, still no satisfaction with dealer's response that there is nothing wrong with right rear wheel/brake system.