Gas Recirculation Valve (egr Valve) Problems of Ford Windstar

Purchased new in 2003. This vehicle has electrical problems and yet we are being told that we have to eat the financial bills instead of Ford. From sensors failing, to interior lights flashing at us, and the vehicle sputtering while we drive down the road. Ford knows that the 1999- 2003 Windstar have serious safety and electrical failures, yet they do not want to correct the problem at their cost. Ford would rather pass on their problems onto the consumer and at the consumer's cost. 2013 at our cost of $1,000. 00+ we replaced the coil assembly pack, egr system with brackets, oxygen sensors, spark plugs, and wires. Now we are replacing them again. The abs system, the traction control, and the cruise control all interwoven and all failed in 2009 and we were told that it is not important by the dealerships. We placed our obd scanner on our vehicle and this is what we pulled. P0302, p0305, p0316, c1235, c1185, c1198, c1194, c1254, c1246, c1250, c1242, c1214, c1210, c1103, c1410, c1404, b1318. We were told by many "service departments" a while back that these codes were not important. They cleared the codes every time. Their response to these codes were to clear them every time. Why are we having to replace the coil assembly packs, wires, egr system with brackets, oxygen sensors,and plugs so often, when we are being told that these platinum plugs and wires should last 150k? we honestly believe that Ford should have recalled this vehicle years ago. Ford should compensate us for our troubles, instead they increased our financial burden, and Ford should have placed us into a safer vehicle all at their cost. This is our only vehicle. When it fails, we have to pay thousands to get it repaired at our cost. Ford should take on the financial responsibility when they know that this vehicle has these issues. Major repairs= 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2013, and now 2015.

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At approximately 16:45 after driving 6 miles that day, the Windstar van was stopped and the ignition key turned off. The delivery driver went inside his destination for about 5 minutes. While loading his cargo, he smelled smoke. Looking up, he noticed flames coming out of the engine compartment between the hood and the windshield wiper plastic shielding. Using an onboard 5 lb fire extinguisher, he attempted to extinguish the flames but to no avail. He dialled 9-1-1 on his phone. Employees at his destination also noticed the fire, and contacted the local fire department as well. The fire department extinguished the flames with severe damage to the rear portion of the engine, the fire wall, brake cylinder and glass windshield. The ambient temperature that day was in the 70 degrees range, windows were down in the van, and the a/c system was not in use.

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I own a 2000 Ford Windstar, and had the water pump break recently. When the mechanic put the vehicle on the hoist he noticed a large degree of rusting and separation on the subframe connecting to the control arm. This issue needs to be repaired before the vehicle can be driven again as it is a major safety concern - as per the mechanic.

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There is a problem with Ford egines. When it is cold usually a temperature below 20 degrees the intake manifold gaskets don't seal correctly, causing a engine error in the computer. My dealer says over the last 3 years they will fix about 50 a season and already this short season they have fixed about a dozen including my 1999 Ford Windstar.

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I bought this car used and from the day I drove it off the lot I have put a few thousand dollars in it. The engine light keeps coming on with codes 171/174 lean on bank 1 and 2 I have replaced the O2, the egr, the differential, I have had the upper intake gasket replaced and the egr hoses cleaned. The light still burns. I have had nothing but trouble with this car since buying it and I will never buy another one. I also had to replace the brakes, the struts and the stablizer bar , as well as one of the tie rods. This van might look great but it runs like crap we have spent enough on this used van to have bought a new one.

12-15-97 at 21,145 miles I reported noticing the coolant level always being low. No leak was found and I was told there must be a leak somewhere in the radiator. 12-27-99 at 56,526 miles I began having a "cold start" problem. It acted like it was not getting fuel. 12-1200 at 74,306 miles I had the same "cold start" problem and the fuel filter was repaced. 12-22-00 at 74,930 a new thermostat & gasket. 12-29-00 at 75,113 a fuel pressure regulator. 03-02-01 at 77,569 miles a new fuel pump relay(ccrm), fuel pump and pvc valve. 09-11-01 at 87,907 miles a mult-function switch. 01-31-02 at 95,069 miles a second ccrm relay. 03-06-02 at 99,348 miles on an 80 degree day "no start" same symptoms as "cold start" problem. Instead of not getting fuel it is suspected it is flooding. 4-23-02 at 99,348 miles cold start problem, fuel injectors cleaned. 05-30-02 at 101,330 miles wouldn't start, no fuel pressure-intermittent. Had to have it towed. 6-7-02 at 101,388 miles "no start" problem. New fuel filter, fuel pump and sender o-ring. 12-01-2-01 109,530 miles van started steaming - appeared to be a coolant leak or broken hose. Added coolant direct in radiator. I have carried own coolant and added frequenlty since 1997, when I was told there must be a leak in the radiator. I could not find any trace of such a leak by putting cardboard under van. Suspected the plastic coolant container had a leak. No coolant leaks where ever found during routine oil changes. 12-04-02 109,568 m,iles found leaking front timing cover gasket. Replaced headgasket and all else that goes with it. Cost of repair $1,915. 21. I believe the headgasket defect has been the problem all a long, costing me a small fortune.

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97 Windstar has head gasket failure im still paying on it purchades at avis Ford of southfield 12 mile telegrap mi cannot afford fixin it I believe is a manufacure failure and need to be fix do not have any safer transportation available at this time please hel us.

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Most recent incident - engine stalled with complete loss of power when reducing from highway speed to ~25 mph due to traffic conjestion on north side of chicago after driving ~45 minutes in 95 degree weather with air conditioning operation. Vehicle would not restart. Illinois dot pushed vehicle to shoulder. After total wait ~20 minutes, engine restarted. Drove with air conditioning off and heater on full through remaining congestion (~45 minutes). Drove remaining trip (total of 3. 5 hours) with no futher incident. Prior occurrence on 07/29/02. Similar weather/driving conditions. After 2. 5 hours at highway speed, exited to side road. Vehicle stalled shortly after exit. Restarted after 15 minutes. No repeated incident in remaining 15 minutes of drive. Return trip had no incident. Prior incident in November, 2001. In cool weather, several short errant trips - vehicle stalled. Restarted after several hour wait. Vehicle towed to dealer. No failure codes determined, no diagnosis of reason for engine failure. Dealer replaced alternator under warranty.

Head gaskets are designed to last the lifetime of a vehicle. They are not routine maintenance items in the Ford owner's manual. Ford extended the warranty on the 1995 Windstar head gaskets twice (5 years, 60k miles and then to 100,000 miles). Even though no major changes to the engine block were made on the 96 Ford winstar, Ford has refused to accept responsibility for repairing this know defect on my vehicle. In fact it appears that Ford is aware of the condition as they issue a technical service bulletin in October 1999 for the 1996 Windstars (TSB 90-20-7). The cost of the repair to me was $1,357. 84. What is even more troublesome to me is Ford's complete lack of integrity and honesty by not fully disclosing this known defect to its customers. This is an injustice to all americans who purchased this product. I hope you will help do something about this problem.

While consumer is driving passenger's side door can come open without any assitence. Consumer's child almost fell out of door. This happend while consumer was on highway. Contacted dealer, and dealer said there was nothing wrong with door. The cause for the sliding door opening while driving was determined to be detent switch failure. The humming noise while cruising was caused by vapor management valve failure.

Check engine light comes on< goes off< comes on< goes off< comes on< stays on< goes off! and the dealership (greene Ford, gainesville, GA. ) always has a different reason for the problem at a cost of approximately. $600 or more to fix each time, to no end. The first time the check engine light came on the imrcs were suppose to be the problem according to the dealerships disagnostics test (cost $80. 00) they replaced and supposedly fixed the problem, (cost $560. 00). Light came on next day while taking a family vacation out of state. Had an independent machanic perform a tune up on vehicle, replaced plugs, wires, oil change, throttle body cleaned (cost $223. 00) the check engine light came back on within two days. Upon the next return to the dealership the diagnostics test (cost another $80. 00) reported a code egr insufficient flow and a #4 cylinder misfire (est. Repair costs $600. 00). Had a dpfe sensor replaced ($76. 00) the check engine light came back on! it is amazing to me that these so called dealerships (experts) with their so called (diagnostics tests) have not the foggiest clue about how to fix this problem. It is also disturbing that after reveiwing the number of complaints on this website, that NHTSA has not ordered Ford to stop playing games and force a recall for these problems. It is apparent that others had the same symptoms and problems in the past that never get resolved until the head gaskets fail and the repair bills go from $600. 00 to $2000. 00. I am accusing Ford of knowingly and without regard to the best intrests of their customers allowing major problems to exist and persist in an effort to increase their profits at the customers expense. Ford corparation should be assamed, but they have shown no acceptance of responability. And the dealerships are no better, everytime we discuss this problem with them, we get different answers and costs from day to day and it appears if you complain to much you get to pay even more. Thanks Ford, for nothing!.

The defective design of the air intake valve located on the driver's side over the wheel well housing, water accumulated and clogged the air intake valve, causing the engine to stall while driving which almost resulted in an accident.

Manifold gasket and head gasket failed causing the vehicle to use excessive amount of coolant and check engine light was illuminated injectors and egr ports were cleaned, 2 months later when the vehicle began smoking thick white smoke, this dealer found that the head gasket had blown and that the consumer was 12 days late for the manufacturer's recall.