Four problems related to car accelerates on its own have been reported for the 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis. The most recently reported issues are listed below. Please also check out the statistics and reliability analysis of the 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis based on all problems reported for the 2003 Grand Marquis.
The contact owns a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis. The contact stated that sudden acceleration was experienced in the vehicle. The vehicle began gradually lunging forward sporadically until it became harder for the contact to stop the vehicle when the failure occurred. The contact stated that once pressure was release from the accelerator pedal, the vehicle rapidly accelerated at full force. The vehicle was not inspected for the failure. The failure and current mileage was 162,000.
The contact owns a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis. While traveling at 4 mph, the contact applied the brakes and the vehicle independently accelerated. The contact crashed into another vehicle as a result. There were no injuries. On a later date, while parking in a residential garage, the contact depressed the brakes and the vehicle abnormally accelerated. The vehicle crashed into the garage wall and through the master bathroom of the home. The contact sustained injuries to her pelvis from attempting to apply extreme force to the brake. A police report was available. The vehicle was not diagnosed for the unintended acceleration failure. The failure mileage was 50,000 and the current mileage was 90,000.
Sudden acceleration in a 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis. This happened after putting the vehicle in drive, it took off at an excessive rate of speed crossed a street and jumped two curbs about 15 inches high within 5 or 6 seconds. My thoughts were "what is happening?" & "brake or you are going to die" thank god this vehicle drown in hurricane katrina. I called your ofc in 2004 after this happened and was sent a form to fill out and return to you which I never did. However, with the Toyota recall it disturbs me that my Ford did the same thing. An investigation needs to be made as to why these things are happening because in my case it was not a floor mat and neither was it driver's error. It is important to myself that this incident is reported and hopefully someone will take it serious and find out what the real problem is before more lives are lost. I consider myself very lucky that I was not injured and others were not injured. My vehicle sustained $5,000. 00 worth of damage and at the time the incident was reported to the Ford dealership. They supposedly checked the car but could find no reason for the sudden acceleration.
Rental auto was parked face out in hotel parking lot. Driver started auto, driver and passenger put on seat belts; with foot on brake, driver shifted into drive and car suddenly accelerated a a high rate of speed (tires smoking) across parking lot driveway and crashed into two parked cars in opposite parking spaces. Both parked cars were driven back approximately 10 to 15 feet, one of the autos went through hedges and crashed into a car parked at the street. Driver was unable to stop car, and finally turned off ignition after collision. Witness to police report stated that heard tires screeching and tires were still smoking after autos collided. Car was towed to hertz lot. Have not gotten report of cause from hertz. The entire event from placing the car in drive until it struck the parked cars took about 2 seconds (the auto travelled approximately 30 feet to impact).