Door locks are activated and continuously active themselves, locks open and close and chimes for door ajar appears on instrumentation panel. Lights on the mirrors luminate due to car reconginizing symtom of open door, draining battery. This problem first occurred while on an 8 hour drive home from canada, was brought to ford, they changed the front passengener sensor claiming car was fixed after 2 days in the shop. 5 days later while enroute to nc, the same problem arose, locks opening and shuttiing and car chimming constantly. Car was flatbedded to a ford dealership in north carolina. Car was supposedly fixed, again, after 3 days in the shop. Ten miles bbefore reaching my destination 65 miles away from dealership , same problem occurred again, after the rear sliding door sensor was replaced at this ford. After numerous attempts at fixing, ford motor corporation, has been unsuccessful in solving this problem. Now security alarm, is activated due to door locks opening and closing.
2002 Ford Windstar electrical complaints
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Cruise control can accidentally be engaged and there is nothing on the instrument panel to alert you that it is on. On 3 seperate occassions I took my windstar for service. I went to, 2 different dealerships neither one could find the idiot light telling you that the cruise control was on. Finally the second dealership said in the book that comes with the windstar " there maybe a light or wording telling you that the cruise cortol is on." the keyword is maybe. I've had 2 near accidents because of this problem.
While driving 55 MPH at night, the headlights and tail lights failed without warning. This caused poor visibility to the driver. However, the consumer was able to maintain control of the vehicle and pulled over. The vehicle was taken to the dealer for inspection. The mechanic informed the consumer that the brake lines needed to be replaced. However, the problem still continued at this time. Please provide further details.
Electrical problems with 2002 ford windstar. Back window on passenger side does not work sometimes. All the warning lights on the dash will start going on and off by themselves at no specific time. When turning on the turn signal they will go on off frequently. While driving down the road and this happens van has shut off twice. Power locks sometimes will not work. Interior lights sometimes will not work. All this began to happen when van reached 30,000 miles and warranty ran out. The dealer has not been co-operative because we chose to take our van elsewhere for regular scheduled maintence. Dealer also told me that ford would not help because I didn't honor them with my maintence. I am really frustated. My husband is an electrian and also owned his own auto shop for years. He say's this electrical problem is impossible to trace. Is it going to take someone getting seriously enjured or loss of life for ford to realize that there is a definate electrical problem in my van. I know other people who have the same problem and can't get any where with ford.
Intermittent electrical problems with our 2002 ford windstar. We have owned the vehicle 17 months, several months of which it has been in the repair shop. The driver's side mirror has been replaced twice and the driver's side sliding door has been 're-aligned' on numerous occasions. The rear window on the driver's side fails to work on an intermittent basis. Power door lock on the driver's side rear sliding door fails to work regularly. This is a serious safety concern! In the event that I need to get to my kids quickly, and the door did not unlock, there could be serious implications. This problem has been reported to the dealership, in writing, in march 2003 and august 2003. Currently, the dealership showed no urgency in working with us to get us out of the vehicle that is considered to be a safety concern. I am in the process of filing a claim with ford to try to get resolution. Electrical problems can be near impossible to trace, and can often times lead to fires, or worse, fatalities.
I owned a 2000 ford windstar. The passenger rear door would, upon closing, slide back open frequently. The dealership constantly said nothing was wrong. Finally, we traded in on a 2002 ford windstar. Within 1 week of purchase the passenger sliding door began sliding back open upon closing - and would jerk back once closed. We have had it worked on 3 different times. It closes now, but has a rattle in it when driving and when the weather changes it makes loud noises when opening and closing. Once in a while, upon cold start, the cd player will constantly rotate back and forth - while radio is on or off-until I turn car off and open driver door. When parking, I can open driver door, push lock button, then push unlock button - get out and close door. The security system will flash, indicating activation. Keep in mind, the car is uplocked. If I open a door, the horn will begin blowing. As you can see, we have had out fill of ford. This is a company car and the entire mangement staff is fed up.
Vehicle caught on fire while parked in the driveway. The fire started from under the dashboard. Fire department indicated that the fire was caused by the electrical system.
Driver side sliding door does not open and close all the time. This has been reported three times to the repair shop and all repair attempts have failed to date.*ak over the 18 month period we have owned the vehicle, we have had the drivers power seat repaired, multiple electrical shorts fixed, vcp system repaired twice, as well as several other more minor electrical issues fixed. The quality of this 2002 ford windstar limited has been very poor.
Brake lights do not work on intermittent basis. At night this can be detected when the dash light goes off. In the day, you don't know. Other odd symptems are that when the ignition is shut off the door locks think the key is still in the ignition and won't lock the doors manually. The locks pop back open.
On the date of the incident, I engaged the front windshield defrost button on the ventilation system. The engine immediately stalled, and I lost power steering and brakes. After that, every time the same button was pushed, the engine stalled. This is the second such occurrence, the last time was in april, 2002 when engaging the air conditioner caused the engine to stall.
Front impact on passenger side, 1 minute after impact vehicle bursted into flames. Unknown speed. No injuries, vehicle was totalled.*ak fire looks as if it started from the top of the engine.
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