Steering Problems of Ford Five Hundred

While driving the front end suspension slips, bounces up and down very harshly, tires slip, squeak, and slide in an hard to control way, sometimes into oncoming traffic when in slightly damp conditions an on roads with any amount of bumps, to the point that I need to drive extremely slow to avoid danger which in turn puts my and my passengers and my kids in danger by goin to slow in regards to the traffic around us. When hitting relatively small bumps the suspension bounces the car severely up and down and across the road into harms way.

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Got into an accident and right mirror was fully broken. Right side of the body was also smashed in. Left brake lights stopped working and engine makes weird sounds.

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Instrument panel shuts off intermittently. Days lights flicker.

Front driver side lower control arm ball joint sheared off at 25 mph while making a left hand turn and then snapped the cv joint axle shaft causing the driver side wheel to jam inside the wheel well and damage lower part of body and fender. The vehicl was totally disable at this point sitting in the middle of an intersection. Similar incident happened two years ago with the passenger side front wheel and the lower control arm ball joint sheared and snapped the cv joint axle shaft at 45 mph and caused vehicle to turn 180 degrees blocking two lanes of hwy. That time front wheel damaged wheel well and sensor wires on that side fo the engine bay.

When coming to a complete stop with my foot on the brake, the car continues to jerk and drive. It also does it while reversing which in both cases has almost caused me to run into the car in front or behind me. It takes a while to pick up speed after stopping. It jerks while picking up speed. The passenger door inside handle does not close on its own. It rains in the car on the driver's side. The front driver's side panel keeps popping out of place. . The thing under the car that keeps you from hitting the curb, is falling apart.

As my wife and I were driving the car on separate occasions we noticed inconsistency in the responsiveness of the steering wheel. Sometimes it was difficult to turn, other times it turned freely. This could have caused major problems while driving. Now the steering wheel has become nearly impossible to turn at all times. We took it to a mechanic who said it was the lower steering shaft coupling and it was nearly locked up. He informed us that this is a very common problem with Ford products. If this is a problem with many Ford products, why isn't it being recalled? this is a point of failure that could cost an entire family their lives. Ford really needs to step up and take care of this matter before lives are lost due to poor design and incompetence.

While driving down the street at midnight the car warning lights started to come on (abs, battery, traction control, and finally the factory stereo/gps unit) one by one. Then followed by the dashboard illumination going out which means I now had no taillights. Then finally lost all acceleration and the car just stopped. Luckily, I was able to illegally park the car blocking a driveway and fire hydrant. Had I been on the highway I may have had a completely different ending. A week after the mechanic replaced the alternator the electrical system shut down again only I got no lights on, it just died. After having the car for a week my mechanic replaced a faulty ground and the battery. The car still doesn't work properly. He has no idea why.

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Tried to pull out on to hwy. The fail safe light came on and shut down engine. Could not steer or control car at all, was very close to having a bad accident.

I recently ran into a major issue with my 2007 Ford Five Hundred which really scared me. I was rotating the tires on the car and when I was removing the wheel from the drivers side of the car I noticed that the wheel wobbled back and forth. At first I thought this was just a bad ball joint and purchased a new one to replace it. When I started to remove the factory installed ball joint I noticed that the nut that holds the ball joint to the lower connection joint was on the verge of coming off. I find this very disturbing as I live in a very mountainous state with many curvy roads and steep drop offs. Had this nut finished coming off while on one of these roads I may not be writing this letter. I will also contact nafta about this situation as it may be occurring on more vehicles than just mine. I would also like to be reimbursed for the part I had installed as it in itself was not defective. I have bought many Ford vehicles and will probably continue to as I think overall Ford makes a high quality car. I have since checked the other side and found no problems on the passenger side of the vehicle. Thanks for looking into this matter and I hope to hear from you soon!.

Steering binds while turning forcing driver to "muscle" the steering wheel through the rest of the turn; also steering wheel does not return back to straight position without driver assistance.

The contact owns a 2006 Ford Five Hundred. While driving various speeds, the vehicle swerved into the next lane. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The VIN was unavailable. The failure mileage was 88,000.

My Ford began acting strangely when turning, and would hydroplane badly when raining. I took it to my independent garage and they found that the left lower ball joint retaining nut had worked loose. That caused the left front wheel to move in toward the ball joint and the joint or nut tore the tire down to the steel belt. The service manager indicated that it appeared that the nut was not torqued correctly at the factory. Of course, I had to have the ball joint replaced and two new tires. I did notify Ford motor CO.

While stuck in rush hour traffic, car was at a complete stop at a red light. When trying to let off the gas, the car lurched forward almost plowing into the car in front of me. This occurred on 06/20/2012. During summer 2011, this same type of behavior occurred 4 different times. The entire process begins with the car being at a complete stop, then when letting off the gas, the car's engine rev's and the car lurches forward requiring the driver to slam on the breaks from hitting other drivers/pedestrians. When the vehicle does this lurching forward motion, several red lights come on the instrument panel and also the computer reads an error of "failsafe engine mode". Power steering, power brakes have been lost while this event occurs as well. Seems as if it could be affected by warmer weather because I have owned the vehicle two years and have only had this happen during warmer (90 degree or more) weather. During summer 2011, two occurrences happened that also almost caused collisions. The first time was on a summer night in a parking garage. As I was coming into a stop in a parking space, the engine lurched forward and came approximately 4-5 inches from hitting a concrete wall. During the other occurrence, I was stopping at a red light and came close to running over a pedestrian due to lurching from car. When car enters "failsafe engine mode' and lurches forward, car must be parked and restarted for the vehicle to run normally again. Also, it only happens at low speeds (I. E. When slowing the car below 5 mph or first beginning to accelerate the car while still below 5 mph). . Read more...

Front end has no lubrication points and tends to bind and gets to a point that you cannot turn the steering wheel.

Car has developed a noise in front end. A knocking when turning wheel at slow speeds. The Ford dealer has put new struts, bearing plates and link pins on car. Still has noise. I drove a new one sat and it did not do this. The dealer talked to Ford about this and was told " release the vehicle as normal and characteristic of design if noise is the same and also minimal" if a new one does not make this noise, why does mine? my wife is concerned something is going to happen to the steering.