general problems of the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid - part 2

Brake system completely malfunctioned. I was exiting the freeway off ramp and all of a sudden I had no brakes. I was not able to stop. I had to pull the emergency brake in order to avoid crashing. The brakes completely went out. There was no warning at all. I literally almost died.

I was making a right turn from a side street, about 100 yards from my home. As I got on road, lights went on the dash about brakes advance service and the breaks lost power. Caused me to have to use significant pressure to make brakes work. I went about 1 mile and into a parking lot. I stopped and restarted the car and things went back to normal. This could have caused an accident since it was sudden and there was a loss of control in traffic. I called dealership and they said that it may have been from car sitting for a week and that unless the problem can be repeated at the dealership, they cannot fix something that isn't broken. The car did the exact thing again turning out of my driveway on 1-5-15. Stopped and restarted car and it went back to normal. This is not safe and should be recalled. Intermittant problems can still kill.

Monday, Jan. 27 - power suddenly gave out when accelerating on freeway. Service wrench had been on earlier that day but had gone off. Dixon Ford told us it was ok to drive. I was in left lane and had to cross 5 lanes to get to median. Took it in to walnut creek Ford and they "re-flashed it", saying no concern was present at the time. They gave the dangerous car back to us fri, Jan 31st 130 miles driven in 2nd lane (one from carpool lane) at 65 mph accel lightly suddenly, car¿s gas gave out, like before the road curved to right. Try to steer car right to follow lane as car decel noticed that steering not responding, even to strongest inputs (almost like locked, like car was off) tried to hit brakes, but pedal sank to floor no response regardless of pressure. Kept pressure but car did not slow began to drift passenger grabbed wheel also and tried to pull right. Gradually started to go right, but with extreme force applied. After force, wheel at most 5 degrees turn emergency brake to slow (not stop) steering corrections could not sufficiently turn car so car slammed into concrete median at 50 mph tightened emergency brake and continued to pull on the wheel slid along median as car screeched car finally stopped on the left side of freeway gear selector locked in drive turned off the engine while the selector was still in park. Responding chp officer k. Alleman asked us to drive car to the other side of the freeway could not start car. Turned key 3 times but car refused to respond. Getting very hot in the car, just like mon, prob 95⺠-100⺠ambient temp again when ext. Temp. 58⺠finally able to select neutral and release parking brake. Car did not start pax&I had to pull hard to get wheel to turn at all incident report #[xxx] officer confirmed brakes, steering, and power were all gone. Details in rept. Information redacted pursuant to the freedom of information act (foia), 5 u. S. C. 552(b)(6).

On 1/6/14 and 1/7/14, the brake warning sign would briefly light up in the upper left end of the dashboard. The local dealership changed oil and filter and performed a multi-point inspection on 1/8/14 and found no break problem. On 1/31/14, while on cruise control at 55 mph, the car started decelerating to 50, 45 and 40 mph on the highway in just a few seconds; I did not have time to read the warning signal and I only saw the word "break. " I was able to resume my driving without any further incidence. A similar deceleration incident happened on 2/3/14. The warning signal was longer and I thought I read in the upper left end of the dashboard: "brake pad engaged. " the local dealer checked the break system and could not find anything wrong. The service department contacted the Ford motor company that had no clue about the problem. Another similar deceleration incident happened again on 2/11/14. The warning signal was longer and read:" park brake engaged. " the brake signal also came on in the lower right end of the dashboard. Again, I was able to complete my drive and later drive back (one hour) to the local dealer service department without further incidence. On 2/12/14, the service department notified me that it did not find anything wrong and "headquarters" is saying that it needs to see the warning signal (that lasts only a few seconds to one minute). I am telling them that I want to drive a safe car and not have it suddenly decelerate in front of a semi-truck. The car is still in the dealer's service department. I would appreciate any assistance in this matter.

After exiting the parking lot of downtown disney in lake buena vista FL, a series of warning lights came on the dash and I experienced almost a complete failure of the brake system. I narrowly missed hitting a pedestrian and a maintenance vehicle. I managed to slowly drive back to the parking lot. The car was not drivable and the car was towed to a local Ford dealer.

Driver was in small local shopping center, he turned into parking space, applied brake, when car accelerated over curb onto sidewalk and through front of building.