While idling at a stop light with brakes activated, engine suddenly accelerated, starting car moving forward. Releasing the over drive option on the gear shift stopped the uncontrolled engine revving. This was the third occurrence of this problem. I have a visit to the dealership scheduled to investigate.
2003 Ford Windstar acceleration complaints
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Dt: 2003 ford windstar. When driving for approximately 15 minutes if he pulls up to a stop sign and puts the vehicle in neutral the vehicle will idle at 2,000 rpms. The vehicle has been inspected four times at the dealership. It is going back to the service department this week. The vehicle has been reprogrammed once, and the idle air control sensor has been replaced. Also, found there was a gasket bulging out, holding the cruise control cable. The last time the vehicle was at dealer, they replaced throttle control sensor on july 5, 2005.
Merging onto highway pressed on gas pedal to around 45-50mph. Stepped on break pedal and car would not slow down. Took foot off brake pedal twice and car accelerated without touching gas pedal. Had to keep applying pressure to brake pedal, slowed down somewhat, pulled off highway into parking lot. Trying to avoid crashing into frozen snow bank and building, put car into neutral. Car went into reverse back onto highway in the slow lane into oncoming traffic. Was able to avoid accident due to oncoming car switching lanes. Put car back into drive and was able to pull into the same parking lot. Was afraid to put into another gear, so shut the car off while in drive to stop car. This was the most terrifying experience my family and I ever experienced. Had the car towed to the dealership. The dealership tried to reproduce the problem for 2 days without any success. Will be trading car in with another car maker.
On 5-10-04 I was driving home in heavy traffic traveling at about 55 MPH,then suddenly the car surged on it's own to 80 MPH. I attempted to stop the car, and the brakes locked and would not move at all. I shifted the car down to low gear and slowed the car down to 60mph, . I was only able to stop the car by shifting it into park. The dealership (charile hilliard stated that they could not see what would have caused that problem. They stated that there was leakage in my brake line that they repaired. This incident was repeated again on 9-23-04. I t was told this this time it was a spring in my accelerator that was broken, and that there was a floor mat pushed under my gas. I told them that this is not true. I was driving mycar all day, I konw for a fact there was not anything under my foot, and that if it was it was from my having to shift my car into park while traveling so fast! I have not driven the car since this second incident. I am a mother of 3 and I can no longer put my husband and children at risk .
The speed gauge needle on the instrument panel moved back and forth on its own. Consumer pulled over, an d problem recurred. Consumer took vehicle to the dealer for inspection, but mechanic claimed problem could not be duplicated.
My wife was driving the windstar on the highway when all of a sudden the car accelerated up to 80 MPH by itself. By applying the brakes, she got it to a low enough speed to slam the transmission into park.*ak the dealership said that the problem was fixed, but about 3 or 4 months later, it happened again. The dealership says that they fixed it again. But we refuse to ride in this death trap, and demand that they give us a new car among other things.
While at a stop, the vehicle would try to accelerate forward even though the consumers foot was on the brake. The cause was not determined. Please provide more information.
2003 ford windstar accelerates unexpectedly, almost causing death.
While starting vehicle with brakes depressed vehicle idled high, resulting in surging forward into home . Dealer replaced idle control vale.
Consumer complained about an acceleration problem. When driving at any speed the vehicle accelerated, making it very hard to maneuver once the acceleration kicked in. Applying the brake during acceleration was ineffective. *ak the air intake control was replaced.
I have a 2003 windstar se. The gas pedal has a pivot in the arm and over the last 8 months that I have owned the vehicle this pedal has caused me to almost get into several accidents. The pedal flips almost horizontal towards the drivers seat when I take my foot off of it, therefore when I go to leave a stop light or something of that nature it is almost like slamming the gas pedal. In order to get the pedal back in the position it was orginally in I have to flip it back up with my foot. This is a very bad problem and needs to be fixed. I believe there should be a recall on this van to fix the problem.
The brake pedal and the gas pedal are too close together. Owner took vehicle to the dealership, who had recognized the problem, but told the owner that there was nothing they could do about it. *ak *ph
The accelerator pedal and brake pedal are too close. When pushing the brake pedal somehow the accelerator is pushed, causing the vehicle to accelerate. Once, caused a collision, where consumer's vehicle hit a parked vehicle in a parking lot.
Consumer feels that brake/gas pedals are located too close together. This resulted in accidental acceleration.
Vehicle accelerated when brakes were applied due to a faulty brake sensor. The consumer experienced sudden acceleration on three different occasions where the vehicle jerked into oncoming traffic while the consumer's foot was on the brake pedal. (received by consumer frauds bureau on 6/4/03) *scc *jb
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