Intermittent no start then totally failed ( fuel pump module) keep in mind I purchased this vehicle for my 20 year old daughter. Also major clunking over bumps at 80k, another known problem front sway arm links also replaced. Had same no start condition @120k ended up being evap purge valve. Replaced throttle body prior to fuel pump module replacement during diagnosis. There is no recall for this model but the shop has one. Daughter got stuck going to a new job interview 45 minutes away while I had to work also costing me work time because she had no way home and it wasn't somewhere to work on cars so tow bill also.
After reading up on this problem there's a lot of these failing a leaving people stranded. Also I'm super worried about the water pump failing, and this is a major issue on all 3.5's because of the internal water pump which involves engine tear down and rebuild if you're luck enough to catch it early enough. We've owned many Taurus and they've never given us issues like this even over 100k. Mind you this car was 5 years old when these things happened and that's not saying much about the quality of these vehicles. They should've just kept the 3.0 reliable and serviceable motor and wouldn't have purchased it if I would've known they changed it.
I've personally known 5 people that own these cars and water pump failure happened to every one of them varying from 130k-170k costing from 1500 - 2500 to fix the water pump! Absolutely unnecessary for this to happen because this is a wear item with bearings and if they tested this motor they knew it was going to fail, but out of warranty so it's no longer their problem. In my eyes they're unnecessarily causing a life threatening condition and don't want to acknowledge that they screwed up! I know they tested and they failed regularly and they still deemed it road worthy. What if it was their daughter? I guarantee you that they would not put her in that vehicle knowing about the fuel pump module, water pump failure and the loss of power condition that happens when it fails and it will. Look up the tsbs on them and that's people who reported it. If something happens to my child I will be starting a lawsuit!
Intermittent no start then totally failed ( fuel pump module) keep in mind I purchased this vehicle for my 20 year old daughter. Also major clunking over bumps at 80k, another known problem front sway arm links also replaced. Had same no start condition @120k ended up being evap purge valve. Replaced throttle body prior to fuel pump module replacement during diagnosis. There is no recall for this model but the shop has one. Daughter got stuck going to a new job interview 45 minutes away while I had to work also costing me work time because she had no way home and it wasn't somewhere to work on cars so tow bill also.
After reading up on this problem there's a lot of these failing a leaving people stranded. Also I'm super worried about the water pump failing, and this is a major issue on all 3.5's because of the internal water pump which involves engine tear down and rebuild if you're luck enough to catch it early enough. We've owned many Taurus and they've never given us issues like this even over 100k. Mind you this car was 5 years old when these things happened and that's not saying much about the quality of these vehicles. They should've just kept the 3.0 reliable and serviceable motor and wouldn't have purchased it if I would've known they changed it.
I've personally known 5 people that own these cars and water pump failure happened to every one of them varying from 130k-170k costing from 1500 - 2500 to fix the water pump! Absolutely unnecessary for this to happen because this is a wear item with bearings and if they tested this motor they knew it was going to fail, but out of warranty so it's no longer their problem. In my eyes they're unnecessarily causing a life threatening condition and don't want to acknowledge that they screwed up! I know they tested and they failed regularly and they still deemed it road worthy. What if it was their daughter? I guarantee you that they would not put her in that vehicle knowing about the fuel pump module, water pump failure and the loss of power condition that happens when it fails and it will. Look up the tsbs on them and that's people who reported it. If something happens to my child I will be starting a lawsuit!
- Eric Y., Dearborn, US