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1995 FORD WINDSTAR — Complaint #220063

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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:SPRINGS filed July 11, 2000

NHTSA complaint #220063 (ODI reference 865171) concerns a 1995 FORD WINDSTAR and was filed on July 11, 2000. The owner reports the failure occurred on July 10, 2000. The report was geocoded to Wisconsin based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:springs, one of NHTSA's standardized taxonomy codes used to group defect patterns across make, model, and year.

The filer flagged the following severity indicators: crash: no, fire: no, injuries: 0, fatalities: 0. No crash, fire, or fatality was associated with this report, which places it in the early-warning stream rather than the priority-review stream. Because a VIN was supplied, this complaint is tied to a specific vehicle and not just a model-year cohort.

Individual complaints are consumer-submitted and unverified by NHTSA engineers — the agency's role at this stage is to collect, index, and make them searchable. What matters for federal action is the pattern: when many owners of the same FORD WINDSTAR cohort independently describe similar vehicle speed control:springs failures, defect investigators have grounds to open a PE and request manufacturer data. Related filings for the same vehicle and component appear below, and the detail page for the full 1995 FORD WINDSTAR shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.

Vehicle
1995 FORD WINDSTAR
Component
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:SPRINGS
State
Wisconsin

Complaint Description

WHEN DRIVING ON A TWO LANE HIGHWAY AT 50 MPH AND UPON DEPRESSING THE BRAKE PEDAL TO COME TO A GRADUAL STOP, ACCELERATOR PEDAL WAS STICKING, CAUSING THE VEHICLE TO CONTINUE TO ACCELERATE. CONSUMER HAS CONTACTED THE MANUFACTURER. MANUFACTURER REFUSED TO PROVIDE ANY ASSISTANCE. *AK THROTTLE RETURN SPRING CAME OFF POST ON THE THROTTLE LINKAGE. *YH

Complaint Details

NHTSA Complaint ID 220063
ODI Number 865171
Date Filed July 11, 2000
Failure Date July 10, 2000
VIN 2FM1385141S

Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.