2003 FORD TAURUS — Complaint #663249
Open-data reference.
NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:LINKAGES filed March 27, 2008
NHTSA complaint #663249 (ODI reference 10222458) concerns a 2003 FORD TAURUS and was filed on March 27, 2008. The owner reports the failure occurred on January 15, 2005. The vehicle had 20,390 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Illinois based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:linkages, 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 TAURUS cohort independently describe similar vehicle speed control:linkages 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 2003 FORD TAURUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ON MY 2003 FORD TAURUS SEL THE THROTTLE BODY STICKS CAUSING AN UNUSUALLY HIGH AMOUNT OF GAS PEDAL PRESSURE TO RELEASE IT AND ONCE IT RELEASES THE HIGH PEDAL PRESSURE APPLIED CAUSES A RAPID, DANGEROUS ACCELERATION OF THE VEHICLE. THIS IS THE 2ND TIME THIS PROBLEM HAS OCCURRED WITH THIS VEHICLE THE FIRST REPAIR WAS DONE BY THE FORD DEALER ON JANUARY 15, 2005 AND NOW IT IS OCCURRING AGAIN. THIS APPEARS TO BE A COMMON PROBLEM WITH FORD VEHICLES AND THERE ARE WEBSITES DEVOTED TO DISCUSSING THIS. IN EVERY OCCURRENCE THE THROTTLE BODY MUST BE REPLACED. *TR
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 663249 |
| ODI Number | 10222458 |
| Date Filed | March 27, 2008 |
| Failure Date | January 15, 2005 |
| VIN | 1FAHP56S23G |
Similar VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:LINKAGES Complaints for 2003 FORD TAURUS
VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL: LINKAGE 2003 FORD TAURUS STATION WAGON; 3.0L DOHC A BLACK PLASTIC CONNECTOR ALONG THE THROTTLE CABLE UNDER THE HOOD BECAME DISCONNECTED FROM A GRAY PLASTIC PIECE. THE BLACK PL
THROTTLE STICKS AT THE TOP OF THE PEDAL. THE 'BARREL' GOING FROM THE AIR CLEANER TO THE CARBURETOR HAS A BUTTERFLY IN IT, WHEN THE BUTTERFLY RETURNS, IT GETS STUCK, THERE APPEARS TO BE SOME KIND OF S
Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.