I was driving and all of a sudden the car accelerated by it self and I was pressing the brakes and it was very hard to stop I finally put it in neutral and the engine raise to 4000 RPM I turned the car off and the same things happen I kicked the accelerator again and it idle down again, I put it in drive after a few blocks the same thing happen.I did research on line this a issue with these cars, I called the dealer they said there is no recall can you please help. Thank you [xxx] information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u.s.c. 552(b)(6).
2005 Ford Taurus acceleration complaints
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My wife was driving the 2005 taurus when the engine started making a loud noise, I went to haul the car to the auto mechanic when I came to the car I started it and the engine started to accelerate to over 3000 RPM's w/o touching the throttle, I was able to load the car into a trailer and the next morning when unloading at the auto mechanic again the car accelerated to over 3000 RPM's making it difficult to unload, the noise turned out to be a broken flex joint on the exhaust and with that repaired it stated to idle normally, the car was brought home and my wife started driving it again. As she was driving it to school to drop off the kids the car accelerated again on its own and she had a great difficulty stopping it and had to shut it off on the road, a friend then got the car off the road and parked into the grass because it was still accelerating on its own. The car was then taken back to the auto mechanic to be repaired, it has been there for 4 days and has accelerated for him as well. There is no obstruction with the accelerator, the floor mats have been removed a month ago for cleaning and never put back. No engine codes are being displayed. And system check on car everything checks ok. I do not feel safe driving this car.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 ford taurus. While driving 35-40 MPH, the vehicle accelerated independently without warning. The contact stated that the brake pedal was depressed, but failed to immediately slow down the vehicle. The contact stated that the failure was intermittent. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 141,000. The VIN was not available.
Accelerator would stick at a high RPM when stationary as well as in motion. This would occur erratically. The idol control valve was replaced twice before the mechanic noticed the cruise control cable was not connected. The cable was removed and not replaced. The idle control valve was replaced a third time with a motorcraft part.
This is in reference to my son's 2005 ford taurus. The vehicle accelerates and speeds up automatically resulting in great difficulty controlling and stopping the vehicle. Even when breaking forcefully, the vehicle tries to speed up. Even in park, the engine revs up to high RPM with foot off of accelerator. This results in a very serious safety problem. This first occurred in 2014 and we took the car to a local ford dealer. They evaluated the car and worked on the actuator assembly. I believe we filed a vehicle safety complaint with the federal safety agency then. Problem began happening again recently. My son was driving home to kentucky from wisconsin and it began accelerating and speeding up. He was able to get the car stopped off of the road. He was towed by aaa to a service center. They advised that there was some residual clogging and build-up that was causing the throttle to get stuck open. They cleaned out the throttle and sent him on his way. A few hours later, it started to happen again in congested traffic on I-65 in indiana driving at 70 mhp. He was in a panic as traffic was slowing ahead of him and he was struggling to get control of the vehicle or to slow down. Essentially, he was charging at slowed traffic. He was able to maneuver dangerously through the slowed traffic until he got to an exit ramp. He was able to bring the vehicle to a stop by applying the brake with both feet with full force, applying the emergency brake, then quickly putting the engine in park. I drove up to indiana to pick him up. When I started the car, the engine immediately revs up while in park. We had to have the car towed back to louisville. We are very lucky that this did not result in a serious of fatal accident. The car is currently at a local ford dealership and we have a call in to ford customer relations. Please re-open an investigation into this issue.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 ford taurus. The contact stated that while driving at various speeds, the vehicle had experienced unintended acceleration causing the contact to be unable to decrease in speed. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who was unable to determine the cause of the failure. The VIN was not available. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 114,000.
My 2005 ford taurus gas pedal sticks causing me to speed have use foot to pull up gas pedal
My throttle is stuck. My car accelerates on its own and fights when I try to slow it down or stop. This happens every single time I drive my car whether I am driving slow or fast.
When I drive my car all of a sudden my engine revs up and my car starts to accelerate on its own. I try to lift the gas pedal and apply the brake but it's hard to try to get the car to stop. When I first stat my car it idles high for a moment but then goes back to "normal" after a minute or two. This is really scary, especially on the highway when you're doing 70mph and car decides to do 90mph out of nowhere.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 ford taurus. While driving various speeds and without the accelerator pedal being depressed, the vehicle would independently accelerate without warning. The vehicle also felt as if it were accelerating when the brakes were applied to stop the vehicle. The contact stated that the failure occurred several times within a 24 hour period. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 142,000. The VIN was not available.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 ford taurus. While driving 25 MPH, the vehicle suddenly accelerated without warning. In addition, the brake pedal failed to respond when depressed. The failure recurred three times. The vehicle was not diagnosed nor repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 189,401.
Twice in the past week my car has accelerated without me stepping on the gas. Both times the engine has revved to 4-5000 rpms and I had to press the brakes extremely hard to get the car to stop. This unintended acceleration has been frightening to say the least. Both events have happened as I slowed to turn. Once to get on a freeway and once to enter a parking lot. The second time it happened, I turned it off for 90 minutes. When I restarted the car the engine revved without my foot on the gas pedal. I see that there was a previous recall for the same issue with the same make/model/year but my car is not included in that recall. Why? Thank you for your time.
The accelerator cable broke of which caused the car to no longer be able to accelerate. The vehicle was being driven and all of a sudden the cable snapped while on a residential street
The vehicle accelerates on its own. I was driving going 25 in a residential area when the vehicle went from 25 to 60 on its own. I threw the vehicle in park but the "RPM x 1000" continued to climb pass 3 even while the vehicle was in park. Crazily I pressed the gas pedal and it came back down to normal. I googled the problem. I see that many ford & mercury owners have complained of this problem. There should a recall on the ford taurus before someone dies.
I was driving on a city street and nearing a turn. I tried to slow down for the turn, but the car accelerated on its own. I had a hard time getting it to slow down. While all of this was going on, the rpms were going up and down all over the place as the car tried to accelerate.
2005 ford taurus with 53,000 miles has a problem that the engine accelerates on it's own while driving. The engine also revs up to 4000rpm in park on its own. Vehicle must be turned off and the accelerator must be pressed hard to "reset" the problem. Based on research online and previous investigation by the federal safety agency, this appears to be a common complaint and issue with this model year.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 ford taurus. While driving approximately 30 MPH, the vehicle independently accelerated without warning. The contact depressed the brake pedal, but the rpms increased and the engine revved. The contact powered the vehicle off and back on and the vehicle was driven without incident. The failure recurred on three other occasions while driving at various speeds. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic, but the cause of the failure was unable to be determined. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was made aware of the failures. The approximate failure mileage was 96,000.
The 2005 ford taurus was bought in april 2015 from a dealership. On new years eve I was driving and realized that my gas pedal was stuck and not just stuck but speeding up. The only way to keep the car from going over 75 was for me to keep pressing the brakes. I was in a 55 zone and having to try and avoid others until I could try and get the car to stop. When coming to a stop I had to put all my weight on the brakes just to keep the car from taking off. There are no words to explain how scared I was. After having a friend telling me to see if there was any recalls on this problem with this car, I did and there it was. My question is why was this car never repaired before selling it to anyone. The dealership should have never let this car off the lot without being fixed. The 15 min of fear I went through, never should have happened. The 15 min of fear I had thinking I was going to hurt others, should have never happened. Before this happen the car was fine, until I went to merge into traffic onto the freeway. When getting somewhere safe I turned the car off and started it again. The RPM went from 0 to 4.
Car accelerates on its own while driving.
While driving 40 MPH my car suddenly excellerated to a very high rate of speed I was on a city street with very few cars at the time but became frightened because the brakes seemed inoperable I had to press very hard and finally the car slowed but this is the second time this has happened in a week I'm afraid to drive it the car has 111200 miles but has been serviced constantly by the ford dealerships.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 ford taurus. While operating the vehicle, the engine would suddenly rev very high and the RPM's increased without the driver pressing the accelerator pedal. While driving at various speeds, the vehicle experienced unintended acceleration. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the ignition coil, idler air control valve, and oxygen sensor were faulty and needed to be replaced. The vehicle was repaired, but the failure continued. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 147,000.
As I tried to slow for a traffic light, the car continued to accelerate. I managed to bring it to a stop with the brake, but the engine continued to rev and I could barely keep it from lurching forward. I tapped on the accelerator and the engine went back to normal. At the next light, it did it again. This time I put the car in park and the engine revved to 4000 RPM. I turned the car off, but when I turned it back on, the engine was still at 4000 RPM. I tapped on the accelerator a couple of times and it went back to normal again.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 ford taurus. While driving approximately 25 MPH, the vehicle accelerated to 40 MPH without the accelerator pedal being depressed. The contact stated that the brake pedal had to be depressed with excessive force and the vehicle needed to be shifted into neutral in order to come to a stop. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 101,500.
While wife was driving, throttle became stuck open causing car to race forward. She applied brakes but had difficulty. She managed to get car to stop but engine was racing. She put into park and turned off. Minor damage to front valance due to pulling onto shoulder and embankment suddenly. Very dangerous situation. Updated 9/15/15*cw updated 2/2/2016*js
As the car gets to about 35-40mph it begins to accelerate causing me to have to tap several times the brake to disengage. The cars accelerator will also many times, stick as if its in cruise control, but the cruise control is off. This week I googled how to fix and saw many complaints, recall on almost 500,000 ford taurus as well as your pursuit to resolve. I would need it fixed before something serious occurs. Thank you gor uour consideration.
This is my second complaint on the same problem. In the past week my car started accelerating with the rpms up to 4000. The first time I was able to pull over and put it in neutral. While in neutral I revved the gas but it took a few times before the rpms reverted to normal. I experienced this in the past a few years ago and made a similar complaint. My mechanic replaced the cable and I sent it in to be analyzed. I called my mechanic today and he is sure it is the same problem because it happened again while if was exiting an off ramp from the expressway. This time I put it in neutral again and pressed the gas pedal hard twice and the engine when to normal. This is obviously a defect and a safety issue. I am just happy it is not winter so I have a better chance of controlling this obviously defective vehicle. I am concerned that nothing was done initially and even if I wanted to sell this car I would not want anyone to experience this potentially harmful problem. I am getting this repaired again but I am disappointed that this problem is not important enough to recall.
Tl* the contact owns a 2005 ford taurus. While driving approximately 35 MPH, the vehicle began to accelerate independently. The contact mentioned that the failure was temporarily remedied by shifting into neutral and engaging the accelerator pedal. The contact stated that the failure had recurred sporadically for approximately one year. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 55,000. Ma 10/5 updated 11/07/2017
20150705 0940 as I was driving about 25-30 MPH the car started accelerating on its on, I tapped on the brakes, there were no deceleration of the vehicle, as the car continued to accelerate. As I was coming to my left hand turn approaching other vehicles I realize that I was not going to be able to stop the car as long as the car keeps accelerating, therefore I executed the turn prematurely to avoid a possible accident. As I entered onto the street I turned on to I pumped the brakes several times and the car continued to accelerate. I continued to press the brakes and slowing the car to about 5 MPH and released the brakes and the car taken off again. I placed the car in neutral and revved the engine several times and the engine speed came back down to idle.I just had the vehicle at the butch oustalet ford dealership (20150512 with a written and oral description of the problems with the acceleration, engine shut-off, stalling . I was contacting by them informing me about the cruise control cable, windshield wiper water hose broken as well as bill for over $1000.00 to repair.as I researched online last night to find out there has been a issue related for this same problem, and that the federal safety agency has contacted ford about this, but given them the opportunity to handle it in-house, a recall was never issued of this potentially death trap at the cost of the consumer.on the invoice there is a limited warranty for certain parts, but there is no warranty for misdiagnosing, wrongful charge, intentional fraud and abuse of customer expectation, not to mention integrity of the dealership.what I have read online regarding the federal safety agency investigation is , it is going to take several deaths related to this issue before positive corrective matters are taken before the consumers receive the justice that is needed.1965 mustang issues, still in denial.
I was driving on a country road with curves and hills. My car began racing ahead, even though I wasn't pressing harder on the accelerator. I took my foot off the accelerator and it surged uphill, I braked but the engine pulled hard speeding up even faster. I was in drive, but shifted to 1 (low). There was no where to pull over, I managed to make it home and call my mechanic. He replaced the ignition coil and the problem went away until june 26th (while I was away from home on a long distance trip). There would be acceleration and when the floor mat was pulled away and the accelerator pedal was pushed up from underneath with the foot, the problem would go away. This was intermittent between june 26 - july 1. On july 2nd, we were in san francisco in bumper to bumper traffic, when the car would pull ahead, pressing hard on the brake I could barely keep the car from hitting the car in front of me. Finally, I managed to pull over and park. When I turned the engine off and back on again, it no longer revved up (3,000 - 4,200 RPM). We drove for 45 minutes, then the same problem started again. We pulled over and got a tow to a mechanic. The mechanic checked everything (including the cruise control cable, accelerator cable, and throttle) he found intermittent problems with (I think, it was a long scary day yesterday and the car is at the mechanics with the paperwork) the throttle (not throttle cable). I had him replace the throttle and halfway home from san francisco, it began revving and racing ahead, brakes were applied, but we could smell the brake pads burning, we were able to pull off safely without incident. After allowing the car to rest for almost 2 hours, it was still revving between 3,000-4,200 RPM's, with an intermittent "thump" lurch. I'm afraid to drive it, I feel like my life is in danger in this car. *mileage listed above is approximate*
Car accelerated without pushing on the gas pedal. Unable to get the acceleration to stop until the car was shut off. After parking, I found that the cruise control clip had come off the throttle. .. Updated 09/30/15
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