While driving and upon attempting to depress brake pedal driver is eventually depressing accelerator pedal, causing unwanted acceleration. Consumer noted distance between accelerator pedal and brake pedal is not sufficient. Consumer has contacted dealer.
2000 Ford Windstar brakes complaints
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Vehicle was delivered with air in brakes, causing loss of brakes, and resulting in small crash.
I experienced brake problems on three separate occasions within a 12 hour period with my 22,000 mile 2000 windstar. I smelled a burning plastic smell for approx 10 seconds and thought nothing of it. I then had difficulty during a normal stop when the disc brakes seemed to be experiencing ABS activity. The brake pedal wasn't fluttering like a normal ABS stop nor was their any moisture on the road. This happened again 10 minutes later. The next day as I was taking it to the shop I made a complete stop and a couple of seconds later the car started moving forward. My full pressure was on brakes and it wouldn't stop. I used the emergency brake to stop. There was no fluid missing from the brake master cylinder. The brake pedal didn't move deeper as I pressed the brake. The tach didn't increase RPM. The shop checked the ABS system and found nothing. There were no computer diagnostic codes found. They drove it 200 miles and couldn't replicate it.
Consumer was traveling 55mph on t highway and ABS braking system light was blinking on dash panel. He was in process of slowing vehicle down, and right rear wheel locked up. He was able to pull vehicle to safety. Vehicle was towed to dealership.*ak while traveling, the ABS light flashed three times and the rear passenger side tire locked up causing the vehicle to go out of control.
Reported spongy brakes. They bled brakes, lasted a week, now pedal goes to floor again. Emergency brake has almost no effect. Dealer says it's normal and all are that way.
While at a gas station consumer was pulling up to a window, pressed brakes and they went to the floor. Consumer rear ended someone because of this problem, then on october 24, 2000 while driving consumer put on brakes and they went to the floor. Consumer had to cut in front of three lanes of traffic to hit a curb in order to stop vehicle.
Loss of brake pedal pressure. Pedal fell to floor and vehicle was hard to stop.
The emergency brake is inadquate to hold the vehicle.
My wife was coming off the freeway off-ramp and realized she had no brakes. The peddle had no give so she stood on the peddle and it slowed her down enough to make the turn and pull into a parking lot across the street. She then called to get the van towed to the shop. She was very lucky that she didn't have to make any sudden stop on the freeway because she wouldn't have had any brakes. She was also very lucky that there wasn't anyone in front of her on the off-ramp. It was the power booster that failed and then it took several weeks for them to get the parts as it was on a national back order, which lead me to believe alot more people were having the same problem. There was no warning the brakes were going out at all. The transmission has been making a loud clunking noise since about a month after we bought it and doesn't seem to shift right. We had it checked out in the shop at the time it was in for the brakes and the replaced a bracket. The van still does not seem to shift right at this time.
After 1 week of purchasing the vehicle rear doors were defective. Also, that brakes felt "spongy". During repairs dealer discovered that master cylinder was defective. Vehicle has been at the dealership since then. Dealer has advised consumer that repair part was on backorder of waiting list of 2000.
Dealership acknowledges an ongoing problem with master brake cylinders on 2000 windstars; they have failed to correct the problem with customer vehicles already on the road, while focusing on correcting the design flaw of the brake cylinders coming off the assembly line. Vehicle has been undriveable for over a month, ford has been slow in responding to dealership's request for replacement master brake cylinder. Three promised delivery dates have come and passed. Dealer reports other windstar owners are also awaiting replacement master brake cylinders for 2000 windstars, however, indications are that ford is aware of a faulty design in the windstar's braking system, and while they are currently correcting the problem on new vehicles coming off the assembly line, they have failed to,, in a timely manner, address a most dangerous issue in vehicles already on the road.
Air in brake line, ford advises master cylinder replacement but long wait for the part. (took to dealer on 7/26, estimate for part 8/30) why so long? Dealer indicated another vehicle with same problem was in the same week. Also indicated ford is using the parts for production line vehicles and has not stocked the depots with this part!
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