Speed Control Springs Problems of Ford Taurus

My accelerator pedal starting sticking and has continued to do so for over a week, now. My cruise control also stopped working at the same time. If I tap the accelerator pedal, it will usually return to normal. The cruise control will work intermittently, but is inoperative more than it is operative. I can live without the cruise control, but the sticking accelerator pedal is dangerous. Also, sometimes when I set the cruise control, I can feel the accelerator pedal accept the speed, but then it will almost immediately disconnect and the accelerator pedal will spring back to its normal position. I've read that other Ford Tauruses have had what appears to be the same exact problem. Ford really should issue a safety recall to fix this issue.

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Coil springs had snapped and ripped open inside of a brand new tire on the drivers side. Our daughter noticed a flat tire so she went to change it and took to a local garage and they said they never saw anything like this. So we thought maybe the tires were on recall. I checked on the web and found that a lot of '03 Ford Taurus owners are having the same issues with the coils snapping but there is no recall on the '03's. But there was on '01-'02 Taurus,apparently same problem but Ford will not stand behind product. Yet today I see a recall on the speed control cable for '03 Taurus due to deadly accidents. Another item I need to get fixed. Thought we bought a reliable vehicle for a college kid that puts on tons of miles. So disappointed in Ford but thankful this was not a tradegy.

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1st major incident- on September 12th -traveling at approx 50 mph and when I tried to brake the car would not slow down but stayed or even accelerated its speed. I eventually was able to get control of the car and continued to my destination. My wife called the sandy springs Ford dealership and we made an appointment to drop off the car the next evening for service on Wednesday, August 14th. The Ford rep took down all of my information but never mentioned the recall or the repercussions of driving this car after this reported incident. 2nd incident- on September 13th - traveling approx 50 mph and then all of a sudden I lost complete control of the car and for a few seconds I thought I would not only kill myself but other innocent people on the freeway. I managed to pull the car into an apartment complex parking lot. I called aaa and they delivered the car to the sandy springs Ford dealership. My wife called the customer service the next day - spoke with karen. Why were we not told about the recall (did research on the internet)? her response: they just found out about it that very same day. We just returned from vacation and our neighbor just delivered our mail, well there was a letter from Ford about the recall. Then, on Friday September 16th we received an automated call from sandy springs Ford about the recall. Does Ford have any idea in the act of negligence they have created? there could have been fatalities. Our car is still at the Ford dealership - it is stalling out and the brakes were not the same (charged us to fix them). Ford said the speed control cable was completely broken off and they were required to report it and mail you the part. Was this done? for the life of me, I can not fathom that a car manufacturer would not have alerted their dealers about this recall. I should have been alerted and warned on Monday evening and told do not drive the car.

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Tuesday July 10, 2012, while driving home from work, heading slightly uphill at roughly 32 mph, I was messing around with the cruise control that hasn't been working since sometime in early December. The dashboard cruise control light comes on when I press on then set accel to set the speed, but the cruise control does not take over the gas pedal and maintain speed. It appears to shut off when I depress the brake, or turn the cruise control off via the steering wheel buttons. Once before, I noticed driving the same path that the car appeared to accelerate on its own. This was sometime early spring 2012. On Tuesday, I let off the gas pedal, but noticed the engine continued to slightly increase rpm and speed on its own up to about 44 mph. I was able to stop at the stop lights using the brakes, but the engine kept revving somewhat. Pushing some of the buttons and pulling up on the gas pedal with my foot seemed to release the throttle and get the car to act normal once again. This is the second time I have noticed this happening in 8 months, but the first time I have documented the incident.

Was on the interstate with speed control set to 70 mph it started about 45 min in to my trip to look like I was going to fast so I looked down I was going 85 mph so I tried to disengage and it would not hit brakes to try to dis engage it would not so I shut the car off and put in neutral when I got stopped I got under the hood and removed the cable from the throttle body for the cruise and I do believe it damaged my transmission when I shut the car off and let it roll my transmission is jerking now also another issue to look in to on the 2004 to 2007 Taurus is the clock spring for the airbag in the steering wheel I know several people who have had failures and mine is failing now it sounds like it is broke when you turn the steering wheel you get a sound like theirs is a loose bearing floating around also it has jammed on me where I had to jerk it and made a pop sound real hard to turn the wheel while making a turn I missed hitting another car by 2 foot.

The events leading up to the failure of my 2006 Ford Taurus just driving normal and after awhile the pedal would get stock and keep the speed plus go to about 60 to 65 mph. From speed of 45 to 55 being drove. It has happened more then 20 times in the past month I 'm in fear that I'm really endangering myself others on the highways and on the roads period. So far it hard to stop the car with the breaks when this happening because the gas is still feeding to the motor. I took it to Ford dealer after I took it to another shop and they could find the problem so I decided to take it to a Ford dealer and found that when test drove it did the same with them, they too and clean the throttle body and disconnected the cruise control saying that's where the malfunction came from. They also but in a new spring behind the pedal. With that being done it still did not fix the issue. They made it clear that they are not sure what's happening I don't understand because we never uses the cruise control in the 4 years that I have had it. The old parts is not available.

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While driving down on a declining road or street vehicle would not decelereate properly. Brakes must be applied hard to get vehicle to slow down or to stop. Dealer contacted. Feel free to provide any further information. Consumer checked the accelerator spring and determined it was not weak or broken.

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