CALLED LOCAL FORD DEALERSHIP,THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS AND WILL NOT ORDER PARTS UNTIL THEY RECEIVE SOMETHING.
- NHTSA ID
- 11039316
- Incident
- Oct 24, 2017
- Mileage
- 83,000 mi
Reports submitted to NHTSA by owners and drivers, shown in full
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Our database holds 4 NHTSA owner-reported complaints for the 2006 Ford Ford GT. Each one is a report filed by an owner or driver and published by NHTSA without most of them being verified. A complaint is not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. Narratives are shown exactly as filed.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
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CALLED LOCAL FORD DEALERSHIP,THEY KNEW NOTHING ABOUT THIS AND WILL NOT ORDER PARTS UNTIL THEY RECEIVE SOMETHING.
TAKATA RECALL NOTIFIED BY FORD OF THE RECALL IN MARCH 2017 AND HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO HAVE THE REPAIR MADE BY DEALER. FOR 7 MONTHS THE VEHICLE HAS BEEN IN THE GARAGE AND UNABLE TO BE USED DUE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR PASSENGER INJURY.
TL* THE CONTACT OWNS A 2006 FORD GT. WHILE DRIVING APPROXIMATELY 90 MPH ATTEMPTING TO SHIFT FROM THIRD TO FOURTH GEAR, AN ABNORMAL SOUND EMITTED FROM THE REAR OF THE VEHICLE AND THE DRIVER SUDDENLY LOST CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. AS A RESULT, THE CONTACT CRASHED INTO TWO PARKED VEHICLES. UPON INSPECTION, THE CONTACT DISCOVERED THAT THE REAR PASSENGER SIDE SUSPENSION ARM FRACTURED. THE CAUSE OF THE FAILURE WAS NOT DIAGNOSED OR REPAIRED. THE MANUFACTURER WAS NOTIFIED OF THE FAILURE. THE FAILURE MILEAGE WAS 17,000.
I WAS DRIVING ON THE FREEWAY IN THE MIDDLE LANE GOING APPROXIMATELY 65-70 MPH WHEN MY CAR JUST DIED. THE DASHBOARD LIGHTS CAME ON AND I WAS ABLE TO COAST OVER TO THE RIGHT SHOULDER WERE I PLACED IT IN PARK AND THEN IT STARTED RIGHT UP. IT HAS RUN FINE BEFORE THAT INCIDENT AND HAS RUN FINE EVER SINCE. I PROCEEDED TO DRIVE DIRECTLY TO THE DEALERSHIP WHERE I PURCHASED THE VEHICLE AND THEY HAD THE VEHICLE ALL DAY TEST DRIVING AND PLACED IT ON THERE COMPUTER AND THEY COULD NOT FIND ANYTHING WRONG. AT THIS TIME, I ONLY HAD 479 MILES ON THE CAR. *JB
Higher-selling and older vehicles accumulate more reports. Counts are not failure rates and are not directly comparable between vehicles that sold in very different numbers.
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