Monday, january 3, 2011, we were driving on a rural road in route to sharps chapel, tennessee when the right side front passenger caliper/rotor assembly failed causing smoking and burning smell of the brake shoes forcing me to pull to the side of the road. after allowing the brakes to cool, i contacted and drove to morristown ford in tennessee and they to attempted to repair the brakes by disassembling and cleaning the caliper/rotor since they did not have the parts available to appropriately rectify the situation. this repair was not effective and the problem has repeated itself four times since then, most recently on october 5, 2012. this appears to be a very dangerous vehicle design and/or part failure!! ford needs to rectify this problem!! *tr
Driver, attempting to stop for a light rail crossing, depressed brake and accelerator simultaneously, moving forward into the path of oncoming trolley. vehicle a total loss. driver believes brake and accelerator pedals are too close together and aligned when depressed.
Brake pedal location and depressing vehicle's brake pedal and gas pedal at the same time. street department workers wearing proper work boots have found that the pedal spacing is not adequate between gas pedal and brake pedal. there have been at least 10 times where the employee has depressed the brake pedal and the vehicle would not stop. it has been determined that the brake pedal and gas pedal placement are to close to each other and both pedals can be depressed at the same time giving the operator the feeling of no brake pedal and the vehicle not stopping. we have reproduced this situation at least 5 times and feel that it is imperative that you be notified of this design defect. we contacted reutehr ford, mike bowen a service advisor and they state that they are aware of this situation but ford has not addressed it at this point. this is a lawsuit waiting to happen. *tr