Owner-reported complaints naming the brake system, filed with NHTSA
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Reports naming service brakes, the antilock braking system, brake hoses, master cylinders or the parking brake. Every record below is an owner-reported complaint about the 1994 Ford Tempo submitted to NHTSA — not a confirmed defect, not a recall and not a manufacturer bulletin. 15 reports on file name it.
Complaints are reports submitted by owners and drivers to NHTSA. They are not verified and do not establish that a defect exists.
Shown in the owner’s own words, exactly as filed
CONSUMER WAS IN PARKING LOT DRIVING ABOUT 2 MPH WHEN VEHICLE ACCELERATED, ENGINE REVVED. CONSUMER APPLIED BRAKES, BUT VEHICLE CONTINUED. VEHICLE STRUCK A PEDESTRIAN, A TREE, AND WAS THEN STOPPED BY A POLE.*AK ONE PERSON WAS INJURED IN ACCIDENT. *SLC
I HAVE REPLACED THE BRAKES, CALIPER 3 TIMES ROTORS 2 TIMES AND A MECHANIC CAN NOT FIND THE PROBLEM THE CAR DOES NOT STOP WELL IN HEAVY TRAFFIC CONSTANT GRINDING AND SQUEALING EVEN AFTER REPLACMENT THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN A RECALL BY NOW THIS HAS BEEN A PROBLEM SINCE IVE HAD THE CAR UNDER WARRANTY FORD WOULD NEVER FIX THE PROBLEM THEY SAID THERE IS NOTHING WRONG. *AK
BRAKE FAILURE.
POWER WINDOW MOTOR FAILED.
TRANSMISSION HESITATES AND BANGS INTO GEAR, VERY ERRATIC.
WHILE DRIVING AND UNPON DEPRESSING BRAKE PEDAL, PEDAL TRAVELED TO THE FLOORBOARD, CAUSING EXTENDED STOPPING DISTANCE. CONSUMER HAS CALLED THE DEALER , DEALER HAS REPLACED MASTER CYLINDER . *AK
WAS DRIVING AND UPON APLYING THE BRAKES THERE WERE NO BRAKES, CONSUMER HIT A WALL . PLEASE DESCRIBE . *AK
THE BRAKES HAVE BEEN REPLACED TWICE ON VEHICLE, FIRST AT 2,000 MILES THAN AGAIN AT 32, 000. WHEN PRESSING ON THE BRAKES THERE IS PULSATIION/SHAKING AND THE BACK BRAKES GRIND AND SCRAPE. *AK
BRAKE ROTORS MACHINED 3 TIMES.
EVERY 400 MILES REPLACEMENT OF BRAKE CALIPERS/ROTORS AND PADS DUE TO WEAR. *AK
2 BRAKE ROTORS FAILED.
WEAR OF FRONT BRAKE ROTORS DUE TO MATERIAL BEING SUBSTANDARD. WORN BENEATH THE SAFETY SPECIFICATIONS. *AK
EXHAUST AND SHIELDS REALIGNED DUE TO NOISE WHEN GOING OVER BUMPS. *SKD
UPON STARTING ENGINE SURGED, PLACED INTO REVERSE POSITION WITH FOOT ON BRAKE, VEHICLE ACCELERATED OUT OF CONTROL INTO FENCE, LURCHED FORWARD INTO GARAGE WALL.
BELTS SQUEAL.
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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