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The contact owns a 2010 Ford Taurus. The contact stated the vehicle interior lights, headlights, turn signals and the instrumental panel lights would flicker on and off. The gear shifter could not be shifted out of park when the light failure occurred. The vehicle was taken to the dealer who performed a diagnostic that located the failure at the vehicle computer. The was unaware of what caused the computer to fail. The vehicle was repaired. The failure mileage was 12,000 and the current mileage was 20,000.
Transmission randomly slips upon acceleration from a complete stop. Transmission clunks. Car lunges. Loses power. Rpms increase. This will last for several seconds, then correct itself. This has happened multiple times. Since this has started happening, it has also been noted that the car consistently downshifts through all gears with a slight hesitation and jerk. Also noting a "miss" while driving. Dealer unable to recreate problem. Refuses to fix. Fearful of accidents when pulling into traffic.
2010 Ford Taurus sho has a problem with the transmission not being in first gear after a stop. One to two second hesitation and then clunks into gear and I am able to take off. This happens approximately twice a month. The dealer has not been able to duplicate. The car also has an issue with breaking and steering. Three instances have occurred where the car pulls hard to the right upon a hard stop. Dealer was not able to duplicate. Hence no fix. All occurred before 3000 miles.
When using the manual shift mode accelerating from a stop sign, the transmission would not shift from first to second gear. I tried several times to shift the car manually without success. After the last attempt there was an incredibly loud 'thump' from the transmission. Loud enough I thought the transmission fell out of the car. I shifted to neutral, paused (while coasting), put the car into drive where it then shifted into second gear. All of this happened while the car was in motion. This is the second time I've had an issue with the transmission in manual mode. Both times happened when shifting from first to second gear. I took the car into my Ford dealer for inspection the next business day, they stated there could not find any problems. Both times were a routine acceleration which happened about 5 to 10 miles into my trip. I was not 'pushing' the car in any way.
The 2010 Ford Taurus loses power and the vehicle shuts off at speeds within and excess of 65 mph. When the defect occurs, the engine turns off, the throttle is deactivated, the center stack console is deactivated and the message center in the vehicle's cluster tells the driver to put the vehicle in park. The driver must then place the vehicle in park in order to start the vehicle once again. This issue has occurred twice within 45 days. For the first occurrence, the vehicle was provided to the Ford dealership where it was purchased to perform a root cause analysis. No issue was found and the vehicle was returned to the owner. The defect occurred once again on July 29, 2010 and the Ford dealership has been contacted to pick up the vehicle once a loaner vehicle can be obtained. No physical change or improvement has been made to address this issue at this time and Ford field service engineering has not been involved or notified.
- Ypsilanti, MI, USA
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My 2010 Ford Taurus lost power on highway and wrench light came on, took into the shop this vehicle only has 4300 miles and needs a throttle assembly replacement already.
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- Saginaw, MI, USA