Consumer was driving with speed control on. When she tried to disengage the speed control it failed to do so, causing the automobile to accelerate and spin around, hitting a pole, and destroying the front end and the hood. Driver was shook up, and suffered some facial bruises.
2000 Ford Focus acceleration complaints
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Consumer was traveling about 75mph with cruise control on, applied the button to stop, and cruise control wouldn't stop. Driver pulled over . Vehicle was stopped by a pole. *ak
While driving about 45 MPH vehicle suddenly accelerated up to 80 MPH. Consumer tried to reduce speed by stepping on the brakes and using the emergency brake in order to stop on the side of road. After stopped, steam was coming out of vehicle and engine revved for 45 seconds. *ak
Recall 99v346/ cruise control. After recall repairs were completed vehicle suddenly and unexpectedly accelreated to 90mph. Dealer and manufacturer have been notified.
Cruise control failed prior recall notice (99v‑346). Yh
Vehicle accelerates excessively due to drivers shoes getting caught under plastic center console piece. Driver has to manually free shoe from plastic piece in order to stop vehicle. Dealer has not seen vehicle. *ak
The throtle would stick momentarly when you would let off the gas.
Cruise control failed and replaced, while using new cruise control vehicle experienced sudden acceleration.
No parts available to perform recall 99v-346m for the speed control fitting. Nlm
We drove off the lot without having the pdi performed on the car, whcich resulted in low fluids in the vechicle, especially the transmission fluid. The low fluid caused the transmission to slip, and revved the engine,which made the car ride and drive real hard. The 1st day we had problems with the battery, which was already dead in the car. And now we received on dec 12,1999 a letter stating that the car was recalled because it had problems with fluids leaking into the cruise control panel, and to contact the dealer as soon as possible. So we contacted the dealer and let them know of the recall, and ask when it was possible to bring the car in. We spoke with the service manager who stated to us that the parts were orderd for georgia locations, but none of the parts ever had reach their location.. Now that leaves us a problem as of today dec 18,1999, with constantly calling to find out when the part would be available and not only that the car needs to be seen also for the blown lighter fuse,as well as the ignition signal failure needs to be serviced also. We need immediate attention to this matter because the holidays are coming and we cannot use our car the way it suppose to be used, if we are trying to drive it out of town, please help us in this tough situation, because no one else is trying to understand that when a car is purchased brand new, it should not have these many problems with it in this short period of ownerhip, thank you.
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