2009 Ford Taurus problems, complaints & recalls

2023-09-07 · Wheels

“every couple weeks when driving slowly around a corner, the brakes will all of a sudden come on & stop my car. if i had anyone behind me, i would have had several collisions, by now. my mechanic has looked at the brakes, wheels, etc., & cannot find the problem. i am very concerned about this defect. please help!…”

2022-08-09 · Suspension

“car shop replaced front suspension struts 1/23/19. i told owner that made the clunking noise ever worse. kevin said well, your car needs lower control arms, bushings, &engine mount. had that done by same car shop on 9/16/2019. i told kevin that did not take care of clunking noise. i took car to an auto shop where i moved to for maintenance. they to…”

2022-04-22 · Power Train

“ on 4 separate occassions, my 2009 ford taurus limited automatic transmission dropped out of gear while i was accelerating slowly away from a stop the times they have occurred is from a stop sign into traffic. it dropped out of gear at about 5 mph and made a growling noise. . i put my foot on the brake. when i started it again everything worked…”

2020-11-14 · Unknown Or Other · 83,000 mi

“while driving my 2009 ford taurus 83,000m the breaks hard stop on its own, it was hard enough that if me and my passenger was not wearing our seat belts it would have smashed his face into the dash and my face into my steering wheel, we were on a side street turning left and as i was accelerating the breaks hard stopped on its own. the other time …”

2020-01-21 · Air Bags · 100,000 mi · 💥 crash

“this vehicle was struck in an accident and no airbag was deployed. it was traveling through an intersection, when a 2012 dodge ram 1500 turned in to the vehicle from the opposite direction left turn lane. the driver door had to be cut open to extract the driver. so the car was moving and the impact knocked this car in to another vehicle as well.…”

2019-10-17 · Unknown Or Other · 95,000 mi

“while driving my daughter's vehicle it will randomly stall out or shut off. dash lights come on, and steering locks up. both times she was able to get to the side of the road. she restarted the car and it ran and drove normal again. she took it to a mechanic and they can't find the problem. this has happened to her twice in the last two months. sh…”

2019-08-02 · Power Train · 41,500 mi

“the car has low miles for the year 42k. the transmission has always been erratic, hard shifting, holding gears for too long. a new problem that is happening, in the morning car clunks extremely hard into second gear. i went to accelerate onto a busy road and the transmission banged so hard it startled us and lost power. there's a safety concern …”

2019-07-31 · Unknown Or Other · 74,640 mi

“the ac blows hot air on the driver side & cold air on the passenger side.the blend door actuator is bad. it's very hard to get to and very expensive to have replaced. i have seen over 100 complaints on multiple years and models of fords. especially taurus models. please force ford to fix their mistakes instead of the vehicle owners paying upwards o…”

2017-08-10 · Service Brakes · 113,000 mi

“the brakes will activate by themselves with no foot on brake. with no notice it will turn into a full panic stop. simply driving and all of a sudden the brakes go to full lock. a very very dangerous situation. once the speed gets below a certain mile per hour it changes. if one stops and turns the engine off and restarts its fine. this started earl…”

2017-04-17 · Engine · 164,000 mi

“tl* the contact owns a 2009 ford taurus. the contact stated that the check engine indicator illuminated. the vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic several times for diagnostic testing and the tc valve was replaced. the failure persisted. the manufacturer was made aware of the failure. the vin was unknown. the failure mileage was 164,000.…”