general problems of the 2010 Mercury Mariner - part 2

The engine suddenly went from 70 mph to limp mode at about 900 rpm's or so. I was able to get to the shoulder and turn the engine off. I restarted the engine, and it worked normally allowing me to accelerate and leave the expressway. I was not sure what had happened so I did not think anything of it. This has happened four more times since. I thought at first that I had bad gasoline because the engine light went on for the second incident and the car was low on gas. I limped to a gas station that time and filled the tank. After restarting the car everything worked normally, and the engine light turned off. In the subsequent incidents, I did not notice the engine light going on. I just turn off the engine and restarted the car. This is very dangerous to lose power at 70 miles per hour. In one case I had just past a truck on a two lane highway. I noticed that this seems to fall under your NHTSA action #:pe13003.

Going 65 miles down interstate during rush hour traffic and lost all power had to weave to side of road to get out of traffic had to have repaired was throttle body.

The car just died on the motorway and left me in a dangerous situation. The problem is an ineffective throttle body ( code p2111 ).

This is a letter I wrote to my repair service on 8-3-12. "this has happened three times in the last two days and is a very dangerous vehicle to drive. When driving the vehicle on a side street once and twice on the expressway, the vehicle suddenly loses power and while the engine is running I could not accelerate. The engine light and tool light both came on and twice just the tool light came on (the wrench). Nothing could be done to regain speed. It seemed as though the accelerator pedal was disabled. I had to pull over to the shoulder of the road, turn the engine off and restart the car. If I had not been close to a shoulder, this would have been most dangerous for me and for the traffic behind me. The car just loses all power and getting it to the side of the road and out of the way of traffic is a dangerous endeavor. This car cannot be driven safely. " I drove the car to a close by local repair shop. The same thing happened to a shop employee. The owner of the shop recommended taking the car to a dealer. I am not a timid driver, but I was afraid to drive the car and had it towed ($52. 50) to the Ford dealership. The cost to replace a throttle body was $516. 08. I read recently that the car was reported to supply limp-home speeds. I did not experience this and definitely feel this is a very dangerous problem.