Consumer Complaint Detail

FORD / TAURUS / 1994

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0 Injured
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0 Death
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No Fire
Components - Details
NHTSA Complaint Number: 999277717 Incident Date: Jul, 14 1999
Consumer's City: NOVATO Consumer's State: CA
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO Manufacturers Name: Ford Motor Company
Model Name: TAURUS Model Year: 1994
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No Component's Description: Power train
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No Persons Injured: 0
Vehicle's VIN#: 1FALP574XRG Date added to File: May, 25 2021
Date Complaint Received: Jan, 14 2004 Complaint Type: CAG
Incident Reported To Police: No Purchase Date: -
Was Original Owner: No Anti-lock Brakes: No
Number of Cylinders: 0 Date of Manufacturer: -
Was Vehicle Towed: - Description of the Complaints: We have replaced the transmission in this car 3 times. the first failure was within 3 months and was under warranty. the second failure was at 84313 miles and we put a new ford manufactured transmission in the car. that transmission failed at only 16000 additional miles. our transmission repair cost us $1345 because we were not charged labor by our independent repair dealer. this time we didn't put in a ford manufactured transmission and we're still going at over 120,000 miles. we sued ford in small claims court and lost.