2016 Ford Mustang: grinding or squealing brakes

Filed Apr 25, 2024 · Steering · UT

It started to squeak

Filed Jul 19, 2020 · Seats, Suspension · 70,000 miles · TN

All upper and lower control arms have had to be replaced on front of car due to squeaking and popping noises coming from them. Also heated and cooled seats went out due to plug shorting out.

Filed Dec 7, 2019 · Body, Brakes · CA

I purchased my dream car from autonation of fremont/ honda. I drove 90 minutes from my house purchase the shelby. Upon arrival, I met with [xxx], supervisor in sales. Before signing documents, the purchase price of the car was advertised at 45,900. [xxx] indicated the price was advertised wrong and was at 47,500. [xxx] stated to make up the price difference, he was going to tint the windows and add paint protection. Last month I attempted to make a claim last month for the swirl marks and fading on bumpers and brembo brakes. Well, autonation indicated I did not have the paint protection warranty. I have attempted to contact mo, and [xxx], general sales manager of autonation, no response. There are other complaints, but this is what put it over the top. During signing of the contract, they up sold me 6000 dollars of varies warranties. By the time I came home to read the documents, I canceled all the warranties. It took autonation 2 months to fix the documents and autonation stated we could not remove windshield insurance. I still paid 700 just to get the documents in order. Not only that, [xxx] stated my brembo brakes squeak because they are "high performance", he didn't fix the squeak even when I brought the car back when it was tinted. By far, this is the worst car experience I ever had. I called autonation cooperate and they never returned my call. Thank you [xxx] information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).

Filed Aug 7, 2017 · Transmission · 300 miles · AZ

Since I have purchased the car with 300 miles I had to take the vehicle in because the transmission was at times, hard to shift, would grind a gear. Locked me out of a gear, and in general can shake and produce loud thumping noises when engaging gears while sitting at a standstill or even while driving down the road. I was told at the time that this was normal behavior. I had test drove more than one car before purchasing this one. None of the others behaved this way. I have done more research and discovered that this is a very intermittent issue between builds of the transmission. I took it in again for service. They had removed the transmission and serviced some parts. Upon getting the car back it almost immediately went back to doing the same thing. This is not a big safety concern, but could cause bigger and more expensive issues down the road depending on what is happening to the transmission. This is one of four complaints I have with this particular vehicle that have not been resolved.

Filed Aug 24, 2016 · Wheels · 1,000 miles · OH

The vehicle has approximately 1000 miles on the odometer. In an effort to rectify squealing brakes, I checked each lug nut to ensure they were tightened to factory specification. All twenty (4 wheels with 5 lug nuts each) were only tightened to approximately 90ft-lbs of torque. Ford specifies in the owners manual that lug nuts be torqued to 150ft-lbs. I used two different styles of torque wrench to conduct my test. One type was used to loosen ten lug nuts and another was used to loosen the remaining ten. My intent was to rule out any gross error in torque readings. To my knowledge the wheels have never been removed from the vehicle, therefore I see three possibilities: the dealer removed the wheels for some reason and did not torque to specification or the lug nuts are loosening themselves evenly or they were not torqued to specification from the factory. I feel the most likely scenario is that they were not torqued to specification from the factory.

Filed May 24, 2016 · Transmission · 800 miles · AZ

6 speed manual transmission; clunks, grinds and difficult to engage in 1st-4th gears, happens under all driving conditions. Manufacturer refuses to address underlying cause.