Tl* the contact owns a 2003 ford windstar. While driving approximately 40 MPH, the vehicle stalled. The vehicle was able to restart. The brake and overdrive indicators illuminated. The contact stated that the failure occurred intermittently. The manufacturer was not notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 144,000.
2003 Ford Windstar electrical complaints
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The gauges in the vehicle keeps going nuts. Moving from one side to the other,tachometer, speedometer, gas, temperature, battery. The tachometer gauge hit the transmission selector and now that is pushed over to 1. It appears there a many fords that have this problem but ford refuses to fix the problem. The fix is well over $400 just for the instrument cluster. Also they refuse to fix the power steering whining noise that all fords have. If this is a well known problem then how come the ntsa don't make them fix the problems.
The ABS light comes on occasionly. Brakes continue to work. I am told it gives a 1185 code meaning a bad module.
Tl* the contact owns a 2003 ford windstar. The contact stated that the gauges on the instrument panel worked erratically and the lights on the instrument panel and the headlights illuminated intermittently. The dealer diagnosed that the wiring harness for the instrument cluster needed to be replaced. The vehicle had not been repaired. The failure mileage was 81,415.
Tl* the contact owns a 2003 ford windstar. While approaching a stop, the driver depressed the brake pedal and the vehicle failed to stop. As a result, the driver had to engage the emergency brake in order to stop the vehicle. The brakes, ABS, engine, and door ajar warning lights previously illuminated intermittently. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic who diagnosed that the ABS electrical module needed to be replaced. The vehicle was not repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 110,190.
"ABS" and "brake" indicator lights within dashboard turn on intermittently.
Purchased new in 2003. This vehicle has electrical problems and yet we are being told that we have to eat the financial bills instead of ford. From sensors failing, to interior lights flashing at us, and the vehicle sputtering while we drive down the road. Ford knows that the 1999- 2003 windstar have serious safety and electrical failures, yet they do not want to correct the problem at their cost. Ford would rather pass on their problems onto the consumer and at the consumer's cost. 2013 at our cost of $1,000.00+ we replaced the coil assembly pack, egr system with brackets, oxygen sensors, spark plugs, and wires. Now we are replacing them again. The ABS system, the traction control, and the cruise control all interwoven and all failed in 2009 and we were told that it is not important by the dealerships. We placed our obd scanner on our vehicle and this is what we pulled. P0302, p0305, p0316, c1235, c1185, c1198, c1194, c1254, c1246, c1250, c1242, c1214, c1210, c1103, c1410, c1404, b1318. We were told by many "service departments" a while back that these codes were not important. They cleared the codes every time. Their response to these codes were to clear them every time. Why are we having to replace the coil assembly packs, wires, egr system with brackets, oxygen sensors,and plugs so often, when we are being told that these platinum plugs and wires should last 150k? We honestly believe that ford should have recalled this vehicle years ago. Ford should compensate us for our troubles, instead they increased our financial burden, and ford should have placed us into a safer vehicle all at their cost. This is our only vehicle. When it fails, we have to pay thousands to get it repaired at our cost. Ford should take on the financial responsibility when they know that this vehicle has these issues. Major repairs= 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, and now 2015.
Dash ABS, brake light on, speedometer, RPM gage jumps back and forward, cruise control accelerates, passenger window and rear side window doesn't work.
Tl*the contact owns a 2003 ford windstar. The contact stated that the exterior lights, turn signal lights, odometer and sliding doors failed without warning. Also, the contact mentioned that the check engine light illuminated on the instrument panel. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The technician diagnosed that the total intergraded power module failed. In addition, the contact stated that the anti-theft system failed. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The vehicle had not been repaired. The failure mileage was 200,000.
Abs brake light will turn on and off at random times. Also, brake (e-brake) light comes on, interior lights occasionally flash, all running lights and headlights have gone out (really bad when driving down highway at night), and loss of all electrical (radio, lights, heater fan, dash illumination, headlights, running lights, etc... All go out at same time). Alternator and several batteries have been replaced. Electric windows will occasionally stop working as well. Obviously the huge issue here is the fact that the ABS system may be disabled, dash warning lights randomly come on and off, and all electrical shuts off, with losing headlights and running lights being the biggest issue!
My vans brakes started acting funny when I came up to a stop. The ABS system is acting as if the van is going into a skid and activating the anti lock brake system. It causes improper braking distance which has almost LED to an accident. After operating for awhile the warning lights go on in the dash for the ABS and traction control, at this point when the lights go on the systems are disabled. When you shut off the van it resets and the problems persist when you start it back up. I believe there is problem with the computer board causing this problem. It can possibly lead to an accident and or death.
Abs and brake lights come on within five minutes of driving.now the o/d off light is flashing on dash.
While driving down the road the ABS and brake light come on and stay on, and the interior lights come on and go off. I've had the brakes checked, and they are fine. We changed the module, which we were told was the problem, but it didn't solve the problem. The problem occurs more often when the weather is warmer, but it does happen during the winter, too. It is very distracting while driving at night, especially, to have the lights on the dash and the interior lights flashing, and it could be dangerous. Also, I wouldn't know if the brakes actually had a problem.
Abs and brake light come on intermittently. No rhyme or reason but make us feel unsafe. Have taken in for service several times and they can find nothing wrong with ABS or brakes. Car only has 56000 miles on it now and we can't trade it or sell it because of the problem. Internet research shows thousands of entries with same problem. Found individual on ebay that has business repairing ecu cold solder joints so this is definitely a factory default. Abs and brakes function properly but those lights should not be coming on. It appears to be a cold solder joint which is clearly a manufacturing defect. Since the ecu sits right under master cylinder a brake fluid leak leaking fluid on ecu has and could cause a fire.mmmford should replace the defective unit at no charge to the customer.
A few days after buying the van the ABS light started coming on, it goes on and off. My interior lights have flashed on and off, my passenger window no longer works! And the gear shifter is loose and sometimes hard to get into park.
Dancing gauge needles.
Was making a left hand turn from a dead stop when engine without warning cut out during the turn. All of the dash board alert lights (brake, ABS) comes on and off all the time. Took the vehicle to 3 dealer ships and could not find anything wrong. Vehicle still cuts out and almost causes an accident each time. Can't seem to get anyone that can resolve this matter. Now the dashboard and interior lights won't either.
I was driving to the store and the speedometer needles went crazy and the ABS / brake lights went on. After a couple of minutes the needles went back to normal and the ABS/ brake lights stayed on. We changes the sensors that go to all 4 tires and the lights remain on.
Abs and emergency brake lights come on and off intermittently. Middle seat won't go back up and the door locks don't work half the time.
Multiple episodes of the ABS traction control and brake light coming on at the same time..if you shut off engine and restart the warning lights go away. Started several years ago thru present time. Have had vehicle serviced and they have tried to reset the error codes with out success seems to be worse when its wet.
The ABS and brake light began to come on intermittently, followed soon afterwards by the power right passenger window failing to go and down, followed by the transmission o/d off light flashing. These would occur until the engine was shut down, then most of the time the symptoms would go away, always to return. When the o/d off light would come on, the transmission would fail to perform at speed and we would have to reduce our speed to under 50 MPH in order to not rev the engine above 3500 RPM. When this light is on, you cannot get to 60 MPH without redlining the engine. I have had dealers and mechanics look at this a number of times with no resolution.
2003 ford windstar trouble codes c1185, c1198, c1194, c1254, c1246, c1250, c1243, c1212, c1210; ABS and brake light comes on intermittently don't know if my ABS is working when this happens.
The ABS light has been one for quite some time many months, maybe a year. The brake light intermittently been on or gone off, but has been on for some time - the last 6-8 months. We have a known brake oil leak, as we have seen the puddles and frequently refill it. This is very similar to the ford recall 09s09 but our VIN # is not presently included. On 8/21 the all of the internal gauges "went wonky" and then stopped indicating anything (speedometer at 0, even though I was driving down the highway at 50-60 MPH. This "wonky issue" has been present since the spring of 2014. Also, the cruise control has not worked for a few months (about the same time we first noticed the "wonky gauges" which used to always accompany a rapid acceleration) since the last week, the gauges are "going wonky" on their own, even when I don't rapidly accelerate. We have read online about a brake oil leak affecting the scds and our issues seem very similar to those described in a recall! To recap, the "wonky gauges" have been an issue since feb/march but was only observed when depressing the gas pedal. Now, since a much more severe episode on 8/21/2014 the gauges are acting up even at slower speeds, the gauges are "going out" and not registering anything at all for 10-15 minute stretches. A/c, radio, clock, windows, turn signals stop working. And ABS/brake lights are illuminated. Thank you for your consideration!
The speedometer does not work on my windstar. It works on some days but others gets stuck or all the needles in the dashboard go back and forth really fast. It has caused one of the needles (for RPM's) to brake in order for me to put the windstar into park.
2003 ford windstar driving at speed of 40mph my ABS and brake light indicator light up. Garage did a code reset but the ABS and the brake did not go away, garage unplugged the battery and plugged it back and the ABS and the brake light disappeared.
The ABS light is on all the time, the brake light is on most of the time. Also the instrument cluster jumps erratically and the right brake light does not work.
The interior lights in this vehicle flicker on and off at random when driving. It does it during the day and at night. At night is the worst. Sometimes it won't do it for a long time and there is times where it does it constantly. Shutting off the engine and restarting corrects it but only some of the time. I have been seeing complaints on many different web sites about this problem and I have seen no tsb issued from ford about this issue.
Rpm needle went all the way to right while driving and can't get it to go back wondering if ths will cause problems while driving.
When driving up hills the "od off" transmission light will begin to flash and though I depress the button on the shifter the light will not stop flashing. Only way to make it stop is when I turn he car off and then turn the vehicle back on.
Brake light and ABS light are both lit at all times after driving for a short period of time. Mechanic says that ABS system will not work.
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