While driving 15 MPH he noticed smoke coming from under the hood. Dealer determined all belts were torn, compressor had locked up and had to be replaced.
1995 Ford Taurus engine complaints
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Vehicle is included in recall 01v390000/ manufacturer's recall 01s30; but dealer had no parts available. Dealer was notified and couldn't find a dealer nearest to consumer.
Automatic transmission does change gears correctely. Also, when vehicle is going from an idling position to a forward position it hesitates although gas pedal is being depressed. Consumer has replaced entire transmission, as well as engine. Please provide further details.
Recall 01 v 390 000/engine cooling fan: vehicle expereinced an engine compartment fire while driving, local fire department arrived to extinguish fire. Dealer / manufacturer were not notified at that time. Consumer believed that above recall was the cause of fire. Feel free to provide any further information concerning this matter.
While traveling for a while engine fan would not come on to cool engine off. Dealer has been contacted. Please provide further information.
Engine over heated and burn out. There is recall 97-v-019-000 that also can cause the problem, but the vehicle is not included in recall.
The head gasket failed, causing an oil leak in the intake.
There was no prior warning of a blowout head gasket. Vehicle was taken to dealership for a regular maontenance check, and mechanic indicated that head gasket had to be replaced in order for vehicle to run.
Would be driving vehicle at various speeds when it would stall out. Would have no warning of problems. Problem happens if driving for extened length of time. Before vehicle could be restart would have to wait approximately 1 hour. Taking vehicle to dealership.
Consumer was traveling about 25mph on a side street and right hand side that holds engine mounts and supports fell out in the road. Dealership is aware of problem.
Head gaskets blewout while driving. Also, vehicle started smoking with coolant and oil coming from underneath vehicle. Contacted dealer, and had to replace engine. *ak the motor mount cracked and ruined the A/C. Intake was leaking coolant. Radiator was replaced. The engine light comes on intermittantly due to sensor failure. Brakes make noise.
Vehicle failed state inspection due to motor mounts being broken.*ak consumer stated manufacturer has recall on structure, consumer stated the engine mounts are apart of this stystem.
Head gaskets are leaking anit-freeze.
Electrically operated engine radiator coolant fan only comes on intermittently (short_cycles). Car gets hot. I'm forced to run the A/C whenever I'm driving to avoid engine coolant overheating. Running the A/C will make the fan run, but if I shut the A/C off, then the fan goes back to short cycling. I know others who have related the same story. Can you help? Thank you, [xxx]. *ak parts of this document have been redacted to protect personally identifiable information pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
In hot weather vehicle will stall without prior warning, and vehicle willnot restart. It takes a cooling off period. Dealership is aware of problem.
Consumer found a technical service bulletin on website, and called dealer about bulletin dates of bulletin 3/98, service bulletin#9849, sb601270. Consumer stated bulletin was about head gaskets. Also, consumer had a blown head gasket. Ford executive customer service line stated this was not a recall, it was just an owner's notification program. Dealer can't do anything about technical service bulletin because consumer was over 100000 miles, but under 7 years.
While driving at any speed vehicle completely shutsdown without warning, cause unknown. Dealer cannot identify problem. Please give any further details.
While driving at any rate of speed vehicle completely shutdown without warning,cause unknown. Dealer could not identify cause.
Motor mounts supposedly replaced by dealer 6/23/99 for recall 98s36,same motor mounts now failed again 9/01. Contacted ford motor company and they say the repairs are out of warranty. How many times does the federal government expect motor mounts to fail on a 3.8 l four door passenger sedan???
This vehicle has limited use. It's primary purpose is to transport my wife who is in a wheelchair. Failure of a motor mount at this age and mileage is peculiar. Also, when I took the car to my mechanic to replace the part, he found they were on back order bevause of high demand.
Vehicle stalls when slowing down in hot weather or when coming to a stop. Will start again after engine cools down.took vehicle to dealer numerous times, cannot remedy problem.
When it is hot and humid, the car will just die after running approximately 40 minutes. The car will usually restart after setting 5-15 minutes, but continues to die. The dash lights come on and all power is lost. Have had to many different mechanics, have diagnostics done on engine with no results. Am told that many similar incidents reported with ford/mercury vehicles.this happens more quickly when running the air conditioning. Have not been able to get problem diagnosed or fixed. I am afraid of making a left hand turn into oncoming traffic and the vehicle stopping.
7 on 6-11-2001, while driving on the highway, a small tapping noise was heard about a 140 miles into my trip, which sounded as if it was coming from the dashboard. The tapping noise progressed to a loud clanking coming from the motor. {note: the oil indicator light never came on}. The car was towed to a ford dealership for an engine diagnosis. Because the oil indicator stick was full and there was adequate coolant, the dealership determined that the engine failure was not the result of a head gasket failure, but possibly due to a "connecting rod bearing" failure. Recommendation: "needs new engine". Mileage: 70,903; 7 on 3-26-99 the speedometer head broke. Mileage: 40,551. No longer under warranty. Estimated cost to repair by the ford dealership: $700; 7 on 6-29-2000, transmission slipping, brought to ford dealership- estimated diagnosis: "probably internal". Mileage: 57,850. Diagnosis cost: $70.68 estimated cost of transmission work by the dealership: $2000
Consumer is having problems with head gasket. Gasket is leaking oil onto engine. Has not contacted dealer yet.
Based upon the number of failures being reported, ford should have performed a recall and repaired all these defective 3.8 liter engines. I barely went past the mileage established by the class action settlement and will not be eligible for compensation. I am not a satisfied ford customer!.
This afternoon I was in my 1995 ford taurus wagon in heavy highway traffic when the accelerator locked and the the car sped down the highway at dangerous speeds. After determining that the brakes would not slow the car I was able to safely pull the car to the side of the road after switching into neutral. This is the second time this has occurred in the past 12 months. Last november when this happened the first time the repair shop determined that the problem was with the cruise control however they could not recreate the problem.
The short block was replaced 2/23/98 , under recall for gasket problem this did not fix the problem . Mileage 30577 . On app. 4/7/00 a complete engine assembly was instaled . This installation compounded the problem as the engine would continously loose water from the coolingn system. The dealer has tride many things to fix the problem some of them from repair bulletins and others suggeseted by rep. . I have had this car in the shop many times both documented and some not documented. The final answer I received that they did not know what the problem is and ford could not sopport futher assistance. I called the ford customer service department and was told that once a car was out of warenty ford was no longer responsible for trying to fix an extende problem even though they had not fixed it during the warenty period. They said this was a problem pecular to this vehicle and therfore they had did all they could. By the way the complete engine assembly was replaced under my extended warenty and suposudly had a 12 thousand mile warenty. I feel I am stuck with a bad situation. Any help would be appreciated.7
While driving at any rate of speed vehicle will completely shutdown without warning, cause unknown. Please give any further details.
Most recently, car caught fire while I was driving due to the leakage of transmission fluid. The car was replaced with a new engine when it needed its 2nd head gasket replacement. Now it needs a transmission replacement. The car has barely 50000 miles on it in 5 years--it is outrageous that it is in such need of repair work. I will be forwarding complete documentation of what my car has gone through. The car was at the dealer getting repaired what was damaged by the fire but I am having a transmission specilaist repair the transmission since the dealer quoted $1300 higher to repair.
Was driving approximately 45minutes-1 hour in hot weather when vehicle stalled out. Taken to dealership, and mechanic could not locate cause of stalling.*ak engine has stalled approximately 5 times in hot or cold weather, dealer still can not duplicate or remedy the problem. Air conditioner not cooling properly.
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