NHTSA Complaint #10260390 — 1999 FORD WINDSTAR

OUR 1999 WINDSTARS IDLING WHILE STATIONARY IN PARK OR WITH BRAKE DEPRESSED WOULD BECOME ERRATIC AND STALL, WITH BRAKES DEPRESSED WE WOULD HAVE TO PUT VEHICLE IN N TO TRY TO KEEP RPMS UP, VEHICLE STALL WHEN STARTED TO WARM UP THEN START UP AFTER TURNING KEY OFF THEN BACK ON THEN THE FUEL PUMP WENT OUT WE HAD TO GET THE WHOLE FUEL SYSTEM MINUS THE GAS TANK REPLACED(PUMP, FILTER,SENDING UNIT) BUT WHEN IT WAS REPAIRED WE DIDNT GET THE FUEL GAGE BACK AND THE MECHANIC COULDNT FIND WHY. THEN WE HAD STATIC COMING THRU THE SPEAKERS WHILE VEHICLE WAS OFF AND CONTINUED WHILE DRIVING AND JUST STOPPED AS SOON AS STARTED, THEN OUR BATTERY WAS CONSTANTLY DEAD WE HAD JUST BOUGHT A NEW BATTERY SO WE HAD TO UNHOOK AND HOOK UP THE CABLES EVERYTIME WE DROVE OR BATTERY WOULD DIE .THEN THE INTERIOR LAMPS WOULD NOT GO OFF AT TIMES WE HAD TO MAKE SURE THEY WERE OFF ON THE DIAL AT ALL TIMES THEY WOULD SOMETIMES COME ON WHILE WE WERE DRIVING AND NOT GO OFF. THEN WE STARTED HAVING BRAKE PROBLEMS FROM THE ABS SENSOR TO EXCESSIVE FLUID LOSS AND PADS(TWICE WITHIN A COUPLE MONTHS) AND DRUMS NEEDING COMPLETELY REPAIRED BRAKE LIGHTS THAT WOULDNT GO OFF EXCEPT WHEN VEHICLE WAS TURNED OFF ABS SENSOR FLASHING/STAYING ON, WE HAD PROBLEMS STARTING VEHICLE BUT WHEN WE TOOK IT IN STARTER, ALTERNATOR, BATTERY WERE FINE IT WOULD TAKE 30 MINS OR MORE TO GET VEHICLE TO START BUT IT WOULD CRANK OVER, ONE DAY IT STALLED AND WOULDNT START WE TOOK IT IN AND WERE TOLD THE FP(9 MOS OLD) AND PCM FUSE WAS BLOWING. WE HAD THE FUEL PUMP REPLACED BUT WAS STILL PULLING 16 AMPS IT RAN FOR ABOUT 60 MILES AND DIED. NEW FUSE AND WHILE DRIVING GUAGES WENT HAYWIRE,VAN DIED,WHILE FILLING WITH BROWN SMOKE MY SON AND I WERE IN IT BOTH HAVE ASTHMA AND DR SAID TO KEEP HIM HOME TIL HE FELT BETTER(HE WAS COMPLAINIG OF BEING TIRED AND SICK ) ALL MECHANICS AGRRED IT WAS WIRING BUT COULDNT FIND BAD WIRES, MISSING GROUNDS ANYWHERE IN THE VEHICLE OBDII DIDNT HELP. PROPERTY DAMAGE IS LOSS OF VEHICLE, INSIDE RUINED WINDOW COULDNT BE PUT UP. *TR