2005 FORD TAURUS — Complaint #923098
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NHTSA Complaint about VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL:CABLES filed June 14, 2012
NHTSA complaint #923098 (ODI reference 10461814) concerns a 2005 FORD TAURUS and was filed on June 14, 2012. The owner reports the failure occurred on June 14, 2012. The vehicle had 67,000 miles on the odometer at the time of the incident. The report was geocoded to Washington based on the filer's self-reported location. The affected component is categorized as vehicle speed control:cables, 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. No VIN was supplied by the filer, so this complaint contributes to model-year trend data but cannot be tied to a specific vehicle.
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:cables 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 2005 FORD TAURUS shows the complete component-level complaint distribution alongside any active investigations or recalls.
Complaint Description
ABSOLUTELY FRIGHTENING! THIS AFTERNOON A PASSENGER AND I PULLED OUT ONTO THE MAIN THOROUGHFARE WHEN MY CAR (2005 TAURUS) INDEPENDENTLY ACCELERATED AND BEGAN RUNNING/SPINNING AT A HIGH RPM. THE EXPERIENCE WAS NOT UNLIKE A SELF PROPELLED VACUUM WHERE YOU LET GO AND IT WANTS TO RUN OFF BY ITSELF - ONLY THIS IS FAR MORE DANGEROUS HAVING BEEN IN TRAFFIC WITH PRECIOUS LIVES AT STAKE. IT WAS NOT WANTING ME TO BRAKE EITHER. THANKFULLY, I WAS ABLE TO PULL OFF INTO A GRAVEL LOT. I TURNED THE CAR OFF FOR A FEW MINUTES THEN STARTED IT AGAIN ONLY THAT TIME IT WAS RUNNING AT ROCKET SPEED. NEEDLESS TO SAY IT WAS UNSAFE TO DRIVE AT THAT POINT SO I HAD IT TOWED TO THE LOCAL FORD DEALER. THEY JUST CALLED TO SAY IT WAS THE "SPEED CONTROL CABLE" THAT APPEARED TO DISENGAGE AND DO SOMETHING WITH THE THROTTLE. CLEARLY THIS IS A PROBLEM WITH THE MAKE AND MODEL OF CAR BASED ON THE CUMULATIVE POSTS I AM SEEING. FORD NEEDS TO STEP UP OR THE NTSB NEEDS TO STEP IN. *JB
Complaint Details
| NHTSA Complaint ID | 923098 |
| ODI Number | 10461814 |
| Date Filed | June 14, 2012 |
| Failure Date | June 14, 2012 |
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Source: NHTSA Vehicle Complaints Database. Component taxonomy and severity codes are standardized by NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation.
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