Car Accelerates On Its Own problems of the 2003 Lincoln Town Car

Within the past 8 months, I have had three (3) incidents: two of which occurred after stopping at a stop sign; when starting to accelerate, the car suddenly jumped into passing gear without warning! one of those incidents almost caused me to rear-end the car in front of me. The most recent occurrence happened as I was putting the car into my garage. Again, it rapidly accelerated, causing me to run into the back of my garage (resulting in major damage to my brick home)! after the second occurrence, I took the car to my dealer, where they told me there had been no recalls; at which time they checked it out and told me they had found nothing wrong.

The contact owns a 2003 Lincoln towncar. The contact stated that when depressing the brakes while driving at low speeds, the vehicle would suddenly accelerate. The vehicle would come to a stop after heavy pressure was applied to the brake pedal. The vehicle was taken to an authorized dealer, where they were unable to diagnose the failure. The manufacturer had not been notified. The failure mileage was approximately 80,000.

2003 Lincoln Town Car with unexpected acceleration. Consumer states that she found a service bulletin with the same problem and she would like more information. ***** the consumer stated an accident occurred as a result of the unwanted acceleration.

After shifting the gear into drive the vehicle suddenly and unexpectedly accelerated forward. The consumer had to apply the brakes hard, shift the gear into neutral and turn off the ignition switch. The dealer was not notified at this time.

The vehicle suddenly accelerated without warning while idling, which resulted in the vehicle hitting a wall, consumer was injured.