Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2000 Lincoln LS

Tl- the contact owns a 2000 Lincoln Ls. The contact stated that while slowing down the vehicle, the vehicle surged into an unintended acceleration several times with the speedometer and tachometer racing. The contact constantly had to apply the brake pedal to slow down the vehicle due to the failure. An unspecified dealer (name, address and phone number not available) and dean arbour Ford of west branch dean arbour Ford of west branch (989) 345-1590) had been unable to determine a remedy to permanently fix the failure. The manufacturer had issued 1 TSB for speed control, but no recall campaign. The manufacturer was notified of the failure and the contact was waiting to determine if they had a remedy to provide to the dealer. The approximate failure mileage was not available. Dyd.

Randomly when applying the brakes the car accelerates instead of stopping. This is referred to as unintended acceleration. In some cases this happened on the freeway and others on city streets at very low speeds. Attached is my correspondence with Ford over this matter. As you will see from the correspondence, these incidents occurred soon after I bought the vehicle in 2000 (first incident was in 2001) up until most recently, 2/28/2015. I'm uploading three documents: 1 - my initial to Ford dated 08/23/2015 summarizing the entire episode of incidents 2 - the response letter from Ford date 8/27/2015 3 - my final letter to Ford dated 10/25/2015 asking them to pick up the car from my house.

On three occasions, my 2000 Lincoln Ls (v6) had a sudden acceleration. The first two incidents happened on the highway. The last incident was on 03-29-04 in the city limit. I was driving down the street doing about 30 mph when the traffic light turned red and the cars in front of me came to a stop. When I began to take my foot off of the accelerator, I felt the accelerator pedal go downward. The car began to increase speed without my foot on the accelerator. I placed my foot firmly on the brake pedal but the car would not stop. I tried pressing the brake pedal down as much as I could but the car would not stop. I shift the gear into park and then the car stopped.

When driving 15-20 mph and upon depressing brake pedal to make a gradual stop vehicle suddenly accelerated, causing an accident. Vehicle hit a brick wall in which driver's side and passenger's side air bags did not deploy. Consumer has contacted dealer.

Vehicle experienced problems with sudden acceleration and jumping out of gear. Provide further details. Consumer ended up going through back wall of garage on one occasion, consumer states sometimes the rear tires would spin out of control even with foot on brake and the only way to stop sudden acceleration was to turn the ignition off, dealer convinced cosumer to lease another Ls, however consumer is concerned what will happen with the other vehicle, if it would be sold and someone could be harmed.