Accelerator Stuck Problems of Lincoln Town Car

While driving normally, the accelerator stuck open causing the car to gain an excess amount of speed in traffic. The car would not turn off and the breaks would not hold it or slow it down. In the end the car was totaled after hitting 2 trees and a wall.

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My 2006 Lincoln Town Car only has 45,000 miles on it and is kept in a garage. The first incident was with my family on vacation in south dakota. The gas pedal stuck down to the floor and the vehicle began accelerating by itself. We were on the highway and the vehicle speed reached 85 mph. The second time less than a year later my husband was pulling into our driveway and it did the same thing he turned off into the grass to avoid hitting our children and garage. Both times he had to reach down and manually pull up the gas pedal. Even hitting the brakes wouldn't stop it.

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The contact owns a 2007 Lincoln Town Car. The contact stated that while driving at 15 mph and attempting to accelerate, the accelerator pedal became stuck causing the vehicle to lunge forward and crash into bushes. The air bags failed to deploy. A police report was not filed and no injuries were reported. The vehicle was not taken to the dealer. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure mileage was 319,000.

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The contact owns 2004 Lincoln Town Car. While the contact was driving 25mph, he depressed the brake and the vehicle accelerated. The passenger looked down to see if the accelerator pedal was stuck and it wasn't. The contact put both feet on the brake and attempted to put the vehicle in neutral, after applying extreme pressure to the gear shift he was finally able to put the vehicle into neutral. The contact had the vehicle towed to the dealer. The dealer stated that they were unable to dulpicate the failure. The aprroximate failure mileage was 70000 and the current mileage was 70000.

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I took delivery of my new Town Car and on the short drive home, I rear ended a car stopped at a traffic light. I saw the light was red and began by stop normally and then realized that the car was not stopping. I pressed harder on the brakes and the engine revved faster, the anti-lock brakes would grab and release and then I struck the stopped car. The impact did not set off the air bags but did considerable damage to the bumpers of both cars. I thought perhaps the accelerator had stuck and took my car in to the dealer, but they could find nothing wrong. Apparently my foot was on the brake and the accelerator when I tried to stop. A friend who has the same model Town Car as I have said that this happened to him 4 times when his car was new. My son's wife has a 2004 expedition and he says that he hates to drive it because the brake and accelerator are too close together. Another friend expressed the same concern. My nephew has a 2005 Ford diesel pickup and I am told that he was backing up to a dock and hit the accelerator along with the brake and slammed into the dock breaking his tail light. This vehicle and the others I have mentioned have pedals that adjust in and out together and in all positions the height is the same on both, after the slack is taken up on the brake. I had a 1997 Town Car and the distance between the brake and accelerator is almost twice as wide on the '97 I reported this to Ford and I do not like their response. I will quote one sentence that sums up the short letter - - "we suggest that you follow the direction of your insurance carrier, which has the right to file a subrogation claim against Ford motor company if it chooses to pursue the matter". I sincerely hope that something can be done to force Ford to correct this engineering error.

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The consumer had difficulty getting the vehicle repaired after her brother had an accident in the vehicle. The accelerator pedal would stick. This problem caused the accident in which the consumer's brother turned the steering wheel and the gas pedal went to the floor and accelerated at a high speed and ran into another driver.

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