| Components - Details | |
|---|---|
| NHTSA Complaint Number: 003263538 | Incident Date: Dec, 14 2003 |
| Consumer's City: EAST ROCKAWAY | Consumer's State: NY |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Ford Motor Company |
| Model Name: CONTOUR | Model Year: 1997 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Power train:automatic transmission |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: 1FALP653XVK | Date added to File: May, 25 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Mar, 08 2004 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: May, 09 1997 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: No |
| Number of Cylinders: 4 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: Trasmission failure at 48000 miles and again at 101000 miles both requiring complete rebuild. both failures were sudden onset and the second occured at highway speed witch nearly caused a serious accident (thank god for the quick thinking driver behind me) took to 5 different shops for diagnoses. all said that the cd4e transimission was a notoriously bad transmission on both fords and mazdas |
