general problems of the 2009 Ford Taurus

The contact owns a 2009 Ford Taurus. The contact stated that the check engine indicator illuminated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic several times for diagnostic testing and the tc valve was replaced. The failure persisted. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure. The VIN was unknown. The failure mileage was 164,000.

I have had this car for a few years. It had 32,000 mile when I got it. Since then every 6 month or so I am driving down the road at highway speed and for no reason the engine just dies and I have to coast of the highway to restart. It start fine and can't get it fail again. Next a few months happens again. This has happen about five or six time in the past 20,000 mile. This happens on open highway and citty streets while going straight . The dealer says no information is ever in the engine computor about any failure. 2009 Ford taraus 1fahp25w39g116813. Pease advise any information. Donald j. Carson; 2357 Lincoln dr;, cicero, in. 46034 317-984-4949 sunset127@comcast. Net.

My daughter-in-law, carrielynn ball, was driving a Ford 2007 Taurus (108, 000 miles) from ypsilanti, mi to dayton, OH. She had on board her infant (4 months) and toddler (4 years). Everything went smoothly until they entered the subdivision of her parents. For no apparent reason, the car turned off while driving. The lights on the dashboard all came on. She lost power steering and was able to pull over and stop the vehicle. She was able to restart the car and proceeded to her parents’ home. Her and her father did subsequent test drives to try and determine the root cause – they were unsuccessful. She drove home the next day with no problems. She expressed concern to me about her safety and the safety of her children had this random shut down of the vehicle occurred in a situation where she could not pull over to safety. She specifically expressed concern about the one-lane traffic diversions that occurred during road construction along the freeway. She was concerned that stopping and starting the vehicle in this high traffic density locations could present a dangerous situation for her and her kids.

My wife and grandson were entering the toll way via the ramp, as she merged into 75 mph traffic she increased her speed to match. As she did she let up off the accelerator but the car kept increasing speed. She realized that the throttle was stuck and started to pump the petal in hopes to free it. It did not free and was still increasing speed. She then in her panic could only stomp on the brake as hard as she could. Thankfully this slowed her enough to allow her to get the car over to the shoulder as semi trucks went by her at 70 mph. With the brakes on the car smoking like crazy she got the car slowed enough to throw the car into park. When she did the engine revved to almost redline and she shut the car off. She was very shaken as well as my grandson. She called me and it just so happened that I was nearby and met her along side of the busy toll way. She told me what happened so I went to the car and started it. It immediately revved to almost re line and I shut it off. The gas pedal seemed to work fine to me but would only increase the rpm's but not go below 4500. I called a tow truck and towed the car to sturgis michigan Ford dealer. 269-651-7728. The service department is suppose to look the car over and let me know what was wrong with it.

The incident date, vehicle mileage and vehicle speed are all guesses as I am not sure of that information. When I am driving the car, it will just stop working and slows down to a snails pace and the lights on the dashboard come on the way they would if you didn't turn your car on all the way. The short term solution each time has been to turn off the car and restart it but it is very scary as I am in the middle of the street where I shouldn't be stopped. This happens every month or so (examples include: after I stopped at a stop sign and I found myself in the middle of a street with a car that wouldn't drive; while I was about to turn left to go down a hill; when was driving out of a parking lot. ) I have brought it to the dealership multiple times and they have tried several different things to fix the problem but I continue to have it. I have complained to Ford but Ford's position is that I can keep driving it.

Sunday July 12 engine stopped. 3rd. Time in one month and now has 4851 miles on it. . Folowing previous sugestion from bethlehem Ford, I did not try to restart engine . Car towed to nearest Ford dealer, ray price Ford , mt. Pocono, PA. On Monday July 13, they notified me they had checked engine codes etc. & could not find the problem . I got car that afternoon , drove apprximately 17 miles & engine stopped again. This was the 2nd time in 2days and 4th time it stopped in 2 months. . Car was towed back to bethlehem Ford where it stayed 3 days. They said they "updated the computer " and "it may solve the problem. " all of this information has been previously forwarded to Ford and they told me that "the dealer has done all checks required" and there were "no other reports of this same problem on the '09 Taurus". Ha! fortunately, car now has over 10,000 miles on it and hopefully the problem was solved.

I just finished renting a Ford Taurus 2009 from avis which had 1543 miles on it at the start of the rental. During the course of the rental the following occurred. While descending a steep hill on a state highway in easthampton, MA the engine stopped running. I only detected it when the steering got heavy. Luckily I was able to bring the vehicle to a halt without the power brakes. After the vehicle stopped it was able to be restarted. If the driver had been less physically able the results might have been different, such as a serious crash.

Accelerating from 30 to 40, a/c on, all dashboard lights came on, engine stopped running, able to shift to neutral and restart engine.

Coasting at about 40 mph, a/c on, slightly downhill, all dashboard lights came on, engine stopped running, able to shift to neutral and restart engine.

Coasting at about 40 mph, slightly downhill, a/c on, all dashboard lights came on, engine stopped, shifted to neutral, able to restart engine.

June 12, 2009 approx . 4100 miles on car engine stopped 2nd time in one week-no warning. Shifted to neutral and restarted . Imediately took car to dealer, bethlehem Ford and again found no problem. Service manager sugested leaving car 3-4 days for them to drive & check out. Left car on June 22 with 4323 miles on it & picked it up on June 26. They could not duplicate problem & found nothing wrong. They sugested if it stopped again not to try & restart so any computer codes may not be errased.

Purchased new 2009 Ford Taurus may13, 2009. On June 5 in late afternoon while traveling in heavy traffic thru a one lane construction zone on i80 in central PA. The engine stopped. I barely managed to get onto a narrow shoulder . There was no response on first try to restart. It restarted on th 2nd try. I took car to bethlehem Ford June 6 and they could not find a problem . Car had 3800 miles on it.

I was a passenger last spring in a 2009 Ford Taurus sedan and we were traveling down a long incline at approx 60 mph when the engine died leaving the car without power steering or brakes. I told my driving friend to shift into neutral and try starting the car again which he did. We continued without iu=incident the rest of the trip. The incident was harrowing since we were on a mountain in alaska and the road gets very winding at the bottom so I knew we were only seconds from disaster. The conditions were spring weather ~60f and the gas was approx. 50% full and the altitude was approx. 2,000 ft. It was a blue bird day and the car rode fine before and after. I never reported the problem since we.

Tl-the contact owns a 2009 Ford Taurus. The contact stated that when he was at a stop and attempted to accelerate, the vehicle would lose all power. The engine would rev but not move forward. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealership but the dealer told the contact that was how the vehicle was designed. The dealer also stated that it took time to send the signal to the computer. The vehicle was not repaired. The contact had not notified the manufacturer of the problem. The current mileage was approximately 19,700. The failure mileage was approximately 30.