Brake Pedal And Linkage Problems of Ford Escort

The contact owns a 2001 Ford Escort. When the contact depressed the brake pedal, the vehicle dramatically surged forward and crashed into another vehicle. She took her vehicle to the dealer and they repaired the coil spring in the brake pedal, along with other cosmetic repairs. One month later, while attempting to park the vehicle into a parking space, it surged forward again and crashed into a pipe. The air bags deployed and the vehicle sustained moderate damage. An investigator from her insurance company is in the process of inspecting the vehicle. The contact has pictures of the vehicle. A police report was filed. The current and failure mileages were 115,000.

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Consumer states when applying the brake pedal, it gets really hard, consumer has to use lots of force to stop. Dealer has been contacted. Please provide any further information.

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Accelerator can easily be mashed down due to brake pedal being small. Also, because brake pedal does not sit high over accelerator pedal it is causing some driving difficulties. Please add more information.

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6-7 times brake pedal got stuck. It happened only on highway and beltway at 55 mph or higher. When pressing down on brake pedal it get stuck, and continuing to press down it became unstuck. Dealer has been able to duplicate problem, but they could do anything wrong. 2 mechanics has test driven vehicle, and another mechanic from dealership will be test drive it again. When the consumer applied brake at 55 mph, the brakes became hard and the steering wheel shimmyed followed by brake going to floor.

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Brake pedal and gas pedal too close together.

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While applying the brakes the owners foot hit the accelerator pedal and ran into a tree. Owner says the gas and brake pedals are too close together.

Consumer's foot contacts the bar on the brake pedal before contacting pedal itself.

Brake pedal depresses further down than accelerator pedal which causes one foot to hit both pedals.