NHTSA Complaint #10462755 — 2005 FORD FIVE HUNDRED

THROTTLE BODY MALFUNCTION. ENGINE REVES UP WHILE PLACING THE CAR IN DRIVE OR REVERSE WITHOUT TOUCHING THE GAS PEDAL, UP TO 1.5 ON THE RPM'S ON THE SPEEDOMETER. THIS IS VERY SCARY, A CHILD CROSSED IN FRONT OF ME WHILE I WAS WAITING AT A STOP SIGN. FOOT WAS ON THE BRAKE BUT ALL OF A SUDDEN IT JUST REVED UP. IT LUNGED FORWARD AND I HD TO REALLY PUT THAT BREAK ON. SCARED ME AND THE CHILD TO. I BOUGHT THE CAR NEW AND HAD ALL SERVICE DONE FROM THE FORD DEALER IN THE SERVICE PERSON THERE TOLD MY HUSBAND THAT THIS PART "THROTTLE BODY" WAS MADE BY THE SAME MANUFACTURER THAT MADE THE TOYOTA PARTS THAT WENT BAD "STICKING GAS PEDALS" ? AND THAT TOYOTA RECALLED THIS DANGEROUS ISSUE AND FIXED IT. UNLESS MY HUSBAND MISUNDERSTOOD THIS GENTLEMAN, WHICH I DON'T THINK HE DID. I SPOKE TO FORD AND PLACED A COMPLAINT AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THERE HAD BEEN COMPLAINTS, BUT THERE WAS NO RECALL ISSUED AS YET, BUT HOLD ONTO MY RECEIPT IN CASE THERE IS A RECALL ISSUED IN THE FUTURE. THIS WILL COST $850.00, "WHICH I FEEL SHOULD BE PICKED UP BY FORD". PRESSING NORMALLY ON THE BREAKS IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH, YOU HAVE TO ALMOST PUT IT TO THE FLOOR SO THAT YOU DO NOT MOVE AND PRAY THAT IT DOESN'T LUNGE FORWARD IN THE TRANSITION FROM BREAK TO GAS PEDAL. INFORMATION REDACTED PURSUANT TO THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT (FOIA), 5 U.S.C. 552(B)(6) *TT