general problems of the 2000 Ford Taurus

Part of the engine, top portion closest to the firewall on the passenger side of the vehicle, caught on fire while I was driving on a city street near my residence in lancaster, CA. I noticed the smoke emitting from under the hood when I came to a stop at the stop light.

Takata recall, I have a bad noiz in the motor and my suspension is bad.

Returning from lake george we experienced a loud rattling ,shaking noise. Within seconds the engine light came on. We pulled over to a safe spot and were towed to superior auto on 19th st. In brooklyn. Awaiting part search!?!.

Friday afternoon I took my 90 year old mother and drove to chick filet to buy a takeout lunch. I drove home to my mother's house and was in the process of backing up the car into her driveway. I stopped the car and looked behind me to check for anyone walking and then heard my mom scream fire!, fire!. As I quickly turned my head back I saw flames jumping out from under the hood of my 2000 Ford Taurus station wagon. I quickly turn off the car, grabbing the keys as I went, yelled at my mom to get out and then jumped out of the car and raced back to open the trunk so that I could get my mother's walker. As I arrived at my mother's car door I helped her out and pulled off her oxygen canula and told her to walk as fast as she could towards the house. I then grabbed the oxygen tank, purses, and lunch and ran toward the house screaming for someone to call the fire department. A neighbor said they would. I unlocked my mother's door and she pressed her life alert button and called the fire department. I walked out side to wait for the fire department and saw a man near the car looking at it. I yelled at him to get away in case it blew up. He did and in about 30 seconds it blew glass, and other bits all about and was fully engulfed with fire. The fire department took about 7 minutes to get there and the car was completely engulfed and burning up from front to back. We were told that it was a total loss. The scary thing is that there was no warning what so ever to let us know that this was about to happen. No smoke, no smells, nothing. My mother and I could have been burned up if we had not been able to get out in time. My car was well maintained and I had just purchased four new tires for it. We drove our car very carefully and we had owned it for 13 years and had low mileage only 46,000 miles on it. Why did this car catch fire and explode without warning.

The car burst into flames 30 minutes after it was parked. No one was in the car. The car was not running. The fire was under the hood. When the fire was seen the fire department was called. They arrived shortly and put out the fire. Everything under the hood, and up into the dash was burned and melted. The car was a total loss.

On may 13, 2010 at approximately 8:50 a. M. My 2000 Ford Taurus caught on fire while it was parked in the parking lot of most precious blood catholic church in corpus christi. I was attending morning mass at the time of the fire. If not for the swift action of the secretary who called the fire department, the fire would have spread from the hood to the gas tank and it would have exploded. My car was declared a total loss and I was grateful that I was not in the car at the time of the fire. I have elderly parents who are with me all the time and some times they stay in the car while I run in to get them something from the store. My car was well maintained and only had 90,000 miles on it. My allstate insurance did pay me for the value of the car, however, I now had to buy a new car and I have acquired a monthly payment of $300 for five years, when I had no car payment on my Ford. I want to find out why this fire started. The fire report said it was electrical or wire. But, they use that as a default reason on car fires. What can I do about this?? I never have experienced anything like this ever before and I am wondering what I can do about it. Please help.

The 2000 Ford Taurus just stops running while driving on the road. Some times the vehicle doesn't start at all and leaves us stranded where we are sitting, for example: at the grocery store, the church and sometimes at home. This incident occurs very often and we have taken it back to the place where it was purchased and to other garages because of the unconcerned people from where this vehicle was purchased. The place we bought it from said they wouldn't help us because there was nothing wrong with it. Apparently there is or we wouldn't have towing bills and have to have it checked out all the time. This is a big problem for us. The owner of the place where we bought the vehicle did make the comment that there was nothing they could do about it and we where just complaining about something that wasn't there. Again, we have bills from the garage, as well as bills from where is was purchased showing the problem that apparently cannot be found even from the people that sold us the vehicle. This 2000 Ford Taurus apparently has a problem and sold anyway. We are concerned that the vehicle is dangerous as it does stop running while driving it down the road and again leaves us stranded and we are elderly people and just wanted to purchase an affordable car that we could trust with safety and affordable transportation that has giving us nothing but trouble. Also, the place we purchased this vehicle from has not been very helpful with us at all about the problem vehicle we bought from them. Thank you.

Over the last several months the car has intermittently shut off. This has happened at speeds of 20 to 55 mph. The car will sometimes shake both before the incidents or during it. At times the car will restart with violent shaking. I have taken it to a private car repair shop. Complete diagnostic done. They can not duplicate problem as when they examine the car it starts up for them and the problem does not occur. In the last two weeks this has occurred twice.

2000 Ford Taurus caught fire. The consumer stated as soon as he started the vehicle, it caught on fire.

While driving 50 mph spark plug snapped off from the engine. Consumer pulled over, and had the vehicle towed. Dealership was notified, but did not resolve the problem.