On three occasions, my 2000 lincoln ls (v6) had a sudden acceleration. The first two incidents happened on the highway. The last incident was on 03-29-04 in the city limit. I was driving down the street doing about 30 MPH when the traffic light turned red and the cars in front of me came to a stop. When I began to take my foot off of the accelerator, I felt the accelerator pedal go downward. The car began to increase speed without my foot on the accelerator. I placed my foot firmly on the brake pedal but the car would not stop. I tried pressing the brake pedal down as much as I could but the car would not stop. I shift the gear into park and then the car stopped.
2000 Lincoln LS acceleration complaints
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While exiting the freeway at 5 MPH vehicle began to accelerate on its own.
Engine has developed an inconsistant misfire at idle, during acceleration, and when it lobs along in overdrive. Recently the the engine stalled while passing a slow moving vehicle on a 2 lane road. I coasted to the shoulder and restarted the vehicle without any problem, however it still continued to mis-fire at random. Sometimes during a turn at intersections it stalls and then regains power and lunges forward (almost like a transmission slip). Dealer can not determine the problem(s), thus they can not fix it. The last time I took the car in for service one of the sales staff informed me that lincoln has been aware of problems with the ls-v8 for a while. That's great, put some more poor performing, unsafe cars out there to sell to unsuspecting consumers! I'm forwarding a copy of this complaint to my attorney should this problem not get fixed proptly or something happens to me or my family as a result of this problem, lincoln can be prepared to hear from them.
Consumer states when applying brakes or vehicle is at a complete stop vehicle will lurch forward . Dealer replaced the master cylinder and reprogammed vehicle. The problem still occuring.
At any given time vehicle can accelerate to an unknown speed without warning.
Sudden acceleration while in stop and go heavy traffic. This caused vehicle to rear end another vehicle, no injury reported. Dealer / manufacturer notified, and still waiting for their response. * ak
Consumer states on several occasions he experienced sudden and excessive unexplained acceleration, while in his garage and attempting to park vehicle with his foot on the brake the engine reved and the tires started spinning out of control, consumer ended up going through the back wall of the garage causing damage to the vehicle and the wall, dealer has replaced transmission, however problem still occurs.
Consumer put vehicle in drive and vehicle went backwards.
Uphill at 45 MPH vehicle lurched/took off, applied brake for about 1/8 of a mile. Brakes could not hold vehicle.went through two intersections before consumer was able to stop vehicle. Dealer had vehicle for 2 weeks, could not find cause. Consumer no longer felt safe driving vehicle.
When driving 15-20 MPH and upon depressing brake pedal to make a gradual stop vehicle suddenly accelerated, causing an accident. Vehicle hit a brick wall in which driver's side and passenger's side air bags did not deploy. Consumer has contacted dealer.
Vehicle accelerated suddenly and unexpectedly, resulting in a collision. Dealer has vehicle.
Vehicle experienced problems with sudden acceleration and jumping out of gear. Provide further details. *ak consumer ended up going through back wall of garage on one occasion, consumer states sometimes the rear tires would spin out of control even with foot on brake and the only way to stop sudden acceleration was to turn the ignition off, dealer convinced cosumer to lease another ls, however consumer is concerned what will happen with the other vehicle, if it would be sold and someone could be harmed.
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