10.0

really awful
Crashes / Fires:
0 / 1
Injuries / Deaths:
0 / 0
Average Mileage:
104,000 miles

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problem #1

Dec 192003

Taurus 6-cyl

  • Automatic transmission
  • 104,000 miles
Whasher pump seem's to have shorted out while driving down the interstate and caused a short in wirng witch resulted in a under the hood fire! all I did was turn on washer pump to clean winshield and nothing happen soon after I smelled wires burning!soon after I seen fire shooting from under car and then it blazed out of hood between the cowl and firewall! the car stoped running I pulled off the sied of I-70 1 mile marker and then called 911......

- Eaton, OH, USA

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