I was driving down a public street not even going the speed limit and I came to the stop light my car acted like it didn't wanna go I got it to a parking spot and it burst to a ball of flames I had no previous symptoms and the car was driving fine it had just gotten to halfway mark on my heat gauge. I think it may have been the plastic intake manifold melted maybe? any ways thought I would report that this is actually a very dangerous thing it almost burnt me alive going down the road and then almost burnt a business down and I'm hoping to get some sort of compensation because no one told me till just now. If I could get some info on who to call at Ford that'd be great

- Knoxville, TN, USA

Ford Motor Company, P.O. Box 1904, dearborn, Michigan 48121, chose to not warn a segment of their full-size car owners who are "civilian" that their cars were produced with a plastic intake manifold that was failing and causing enormous coolant problems for their 4.6L V-8 engines and other component engine parts. Because Ford did not notify me of their known problems with the intake manifold the defected part caused my car to repeatedly loose coolant and cause my car to overheat and finally blow my intake manifold gasket causing me to replace defective intake manifold (copy of shop bill attached) and causing unknown damages to my engine. I am requesting a refund for these repairs.

- Indianapolis, , IN, USA

Car has a problen in the steering box. Took it to a specialist and Ford discounted it. They sent a Lincoln rep down and he just lied to me about the problem said it was a factory flaw and could not fix, then I took the car into the dealer for a pinging and they said they couldn't hear it (nothing was done)then later on a trip it went haywire sounded like a big diesel truck on the highway and ran like crap, sucking gas also, then changed dealers and they said they coulden't find a ping. I grabed me a mechanic and we took a little ride and before I could get it back it was pinging (took them 3 weeks to fix with me coming up almost daily to test it, and nobody can adjust the head lights on the car that is bad its idiot proof

- Denham Springs, LA, USA

Consumer information form involving incident with 1994 Lincoln Town car.

- Olathe, KS, USA

No summary.

- Orlando, FL, USA

Intermittently while driving in the cruise control mode, and when occupant pressed the brakes, vehicle jumped forward and speeded up which may have caused a crash. Been to dealer, cannot determine the cause. Common problem.

- Hughes Springs, TX, USA