While traveling at 40 MPH, consumer states that an animal jump out into the road. Consumer loss control and vehicle flipped. Consumer feels the brake pedal and gas pedal are too close. Please provide any further information. Ts 02v‑266
2001 Ford Taurus acceleration complaints
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While pulling into a parking space, consumer states applied the brakes and vehicle took off and hit a couple of cars consumer had to locate brake pedal in order to stop. Consumer states there is a recall for the distance between pedals, 02 v 266 000. *ts
While driving and when vehicle accelerates to 25/35mph if foot is removed from gas pedal, vehicle will not decrease in speed until brakes are applied.contacted dealer.*akconsumer took vehicle for inspection to two dealers who both informed consumer that the vehicle was operating fine. They further explained that the speed problem is characteristic fo the 2000 thru 2002 taurus.
Vehicle accelerated when at a full stop at red light. It was necessary to turn off the ignition to disengage. Vehicle was immediately brought to and left at ford dealership as unsafe to drive.
When coming to a stop on flat surface and no warning vehicle accelerated, resulting in an accident. Dealer notified.
While merging onto highway transmission lurches forward and does not allow gears to shift properly. Consumer stated was not able to accelerate, and was almost was hit from the rear.
Car takes off in reverse & drive as soon as brake released without using gas pedal
Vehicle is subject to high rpms with mileage reaching up to 35 MPH. Brakes are worn due to constant application of pedal for control. Please describe details.
While applying brakes, consumer's foot hit accelerater pedal and vehicle took off over a curve. Consumer feels pedals are too close together.*ak
Vehicle accelerated with brakes applied. This occurred three times. Previously, vehicle dragged 20-30 seconds approaching a stop due to it not stopping on time.please provide more information.
Engine races to 3500-4500 RPM with foot off of accelerator and usually while on brake, hot or cold, in or out of gear, while driving, stopped, or parked. Has nothing to do with pedal spacing, has occurred often enough to verify that foot was either completely off accelerator or completely on brakes. Occurs randomly and without warning, usually around 40 MPH in city style driving. Has been serviced three (3) times, has not been duplicated by ford service techs, nor has the problem been resolved. Happens both with the speed control cable attached or detached from the throttle body. Pedal is not jamming on floor mat or any other footwell obstructions. Has occurred while stopped at a stoplight, required extreme braking effort to keep vehicle stationary, resolved when accelerator depressed on green light. Has also occurred driving into neighborhood, rode brakes until I got to my driveway where heavy braking was applied and car put in park and ignition quickly turned off. During drive thru neighborhood while engine racing was occuring, numerous attempts were made to resolve problem by putting vehicle in nuetral, but had no effect. Vehicle was reentered after sitting in driveway for approx 30-60 minutes. Brake pedal depressed, ignition turned on, foot remained on brake to put vehicle in reverse, immediatley upon putting vehicle in reverse throttle raced and threw vehicle 1.5-2 car lengths backwards before contorl was resumed by firmly applying brakes. During this incident, foot was never removed from brake pedal. Car quickly shut off, and scenario was repeated by father, car brought under control agian, and problem resolved by applying accelarator while in neutral. Other incidents have occured while removing foot from accelarator and coasting. Obviously it is not always safe to resolve problem by accelerating, and is an incredibly dangerous problem.
Gas and brake pedal sit too close together and close to the same height, when ford was contacted, they didn't want to inspect.
Ford's problems with sudden unintended acceleration and stuck throttles is well known and documented. Ford should recall and fix these vehicles immediately!!!
Brake pedal and accelerator pedal are too close to each other. I was coming to a stop and had my work boots on, put my foot on I guess both the brake and accelerator, causing me to bump the car in front of me. No injuries, but neverless a jolt.
When trying to apply brakes vehicle started to surge forward because the gas pedal and the accelerater pedal are too close together. Contacted dealer.
Was put into an emergency stop situation, when I applied brakes my brake pedal bent in half causing my foot to come off and land on the gas pedal. I slamed into the car in front of me because of this defect, had the brakes not failed I could of came to a stop with causing an accident. Ford was contacted and refused to acknowledge incident and my insurance company is currently in litagation with ford over the incident.
Due to the brake pedal and gas pedal being so close together, while parking vehicle, consumer hit gas pedal, causing vehicle to accelerate at about 25mph, hitting into a pole and a parked vehicle.*ak dealer notified.
Pe 02 035:brake/accelerator pedal separation: when applying brake, driver's foot mistakenly pressed accelerator pedal, causing vehicle to rearend another vehicle. Dealer and manufacturer were notified. *ak consumer feels that the problem is the distance of travel between the brake and accelerator pedals being too close.
Vehicle lurches and revs at high speed when brakes are depressed at low speed or when brakes are applied when attempting to shift from drive to reverse or reverse to drive, consumer is able to stop vehicle when shifting to park and turning off the ignition.*ak
While applying the brakes when coming to a stop engine began accelerating without any control or direction from the driver. Engine stopped revving when the driver placed the transmission in the park position.
The vehicle is equipped with adjustable pedals. The pedals are so close together that when the consumer applied the brakes, the engine would surge as if it wanted to continue in drive and not stop. The last incident the vehicle surged to the point consumer could not stop the vehicle. Vehicle was stopped by a fence.
When starting and shifting into gear vehicle would surge forward or backward intermittently. Vehicle been into dealer shop on five occasions, and unable to duplicate the problem. Feel free to provide any further information.
When backing up at almost 0 MPH, the car accelerated and drove backwards up a hill in a parking lot. Down the same way, at a high rate of speed. Damage was $1500. Dealer found no problem, but I know there was something very wrong.
When driving at any speed and releasing the accelerator pedal the car continues at the same speed. It slows down very gradually and requires half a mile for each 5 MPH decreasing in speed, the dealer said this was a characteristic of the vehicle.
After vehicle is started engine idled to 1400 rpms. This occurred for about 1-3 minutes. When taking off vehicle surged forward. Dealer reprogrammed computer, which did not correct the problem.
Consumer was backing out of a garage using idle speed with foot on brake, when vehicle suddenly accelerated backward, consumer was able to regain control by shifting the vehicle into drive and then into reverse, vehicle struck several items in the garage causing damage to the front and right front door, ford stated the sudden acceleration was caused by a floor mat on the drivers side , however consumer disagrees.
Vehicle will surge forward about 3-4 inches when starting vehicle or shifting vehicle into park. Cause is unknown.*ak consumer states that vehicle also surges backwards in park.
Vehicle experiences sudden accelerartion when attempting to slow or stop the vehicle.
On three occasions, although I didn't realize it at the time, while braking to stop, I was also accelerating causing the car to lurch forward. The harder a pressed on the brake the greater the accelleration. As I said, I had no idea my right foot was on both pedals at the same time. I had the car towed back to clarke ford for their inspection. They performed that inspection on 8/21 and reported no apparent problems. I returned to the dealership that evening to pick up the vehicle. The salesman and I took a test drive to see if I could replicate what I had experieced on the 19th. Couldn't do it so I drove my other vehicle home and the salesman followed me home in the new vehicle. The salesman drove me back to the dealership and as he proceded into a parking space he braked to stop the car but at the same time the car wanted to accelerate just as had happened to me on three occassions. The startled salesman exclaimed "is that what happened to you" and he looked down at his which was on both the brake and the accelerator. Mystery solved. This had never happened with any other vehicle I have owned or leased in 43 years of driving. I inspected the position of the brake and accelerator pedals in my other two cars and a couple of co-workers cars and discovered that the distances, both depth and width, on the new taurus were much closer than the other vehicles. On the new taurus, I can depress the brake with my hand and it will desend to a level lower than the accelerator. I could not do this in the other vehicles, even by using my foot to brake. The brake pedal never got to the level of the accelerator. I believe the ford new design, which is a power adjustable brake and accelerator pedal bar to accomodate short statured people, could be a defect which could cause serious accidents, similar to those that occured in the jeep a number of years ago.
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