Consumer Complaint Detail

FORD / EXPEDITION / 1997

Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 005028285	Incident Date: Jun, 29 2005
Consumer's City: SANTA FE	Consumer's State: TX
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO	Manufacturers Name: Ford Motor Company
Model Name: EXPEDITION	Model Year: 1997
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No	Component's Description: Electrical system
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: Yes	Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1FMEU17L8VL	Date added to File: May, 23 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jul, 10 2005	Complaint Type: IVOQ
Incident Reported To Police: No	Purchase Date: Nov, 22 1997
Was Original Owner: Yes	Anti-lock Brakes: Yes
Number of Cylinders: 8	Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: -	Description of the Complaints: Cruse controll brake switch burned up while attempting to back car out of the garage. when this switch burned up it caused the stop light fuse to also burn out and and this causes the shift leaver to lock in the park position. now we have an electrical fire and can't get the car out of the garage. a good friend of mine has his own shop and he used to a chief mechcanic for ford so i called him and he corected the problem. he gave me the parts that burned up and told me to call ford because they had a recall out for this problem on thier 2000 & 2001 modles. my car is a 1997 and they said they could not help me. any suggestions. p.s. i still have the parts from the car.