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CarComplaints.com Notes: Most people need a car that shifts gears & coil springs that don't shred tires. The Taurus fails in that respect.
The 2003 Ford Taurus has major issues with the transmission failing. Typically the 2003 Taurus transmission failure costs $2,000 to fix by about 90k-100k miles. Not good.
Adding insult to injury, the 1999-2003 Taurus also has a huge problem with coil springs breaking which can puncture or even shred tires while driving.
The US government spent THREE YEARS (2008-2011) investigating the 2002-2003 Taurus coil springs. Although Taurus/Sable from earlier years were recalled, ultimately the NHTSA did not force a recall. They determined that because there had been no deaths & very few bad crashes & injuries, the broken coil springs defect was no big deal & not a safety defect. Tell that to all the owners who had close calls...
8.2
pretty bad- Typical Repair Cost:
- $510
- Average Mileage:
- 88,700 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 13 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- not sure (9 reports)
- new alternator (3 reports)
- replaced the coil pack (1 reports)
electrical problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
Car will stall or hesitate. Have had it scoped 4 times engine and electrically. Can't find anything. We've done a tune up coil pack diode in alternator checked. New fuel filter. May go for days and no problem, then all of sudden stalls have to pull off road lights all come on but will restart. We even went to ford dealer and they said why waste time scoping it again. Afraid to drive interstate at this point. Has anyone had similar problem please reply. We are at a stand still and don't know how to proceed in correcting this.
- A T., Indianapolis, IN, US