2007 Ford Crown Victoria Vehicle speed control Problems

“I drive a Ford program car - a used 2007 Crown Victoria (a former rental vehicle). On the day of my accident - after pulling onto a busy street from a parking lot - I almost immediately applied my brakes because I was coming up to a red light where several cars had already come to a stop ahead of me. At first my car slowed normally but, as I applied the brakes to come to a complete stop, the engine began to rev' up. I tried tapping the brake to see if this would help to disengage the throttle's revving. It didn't help. I kept trying this. …”

“This is another of an on going acceleration issue when depressing the foot brake. In this instance I had just backed out of a parking space in a shopping center and drove maybe 200' and had just about rolled to a stop sign for ga highway 212 and very slightly depressed the brake pedal to come to a complete stop. As soon as I started pressing the brake pedal, the engine picked up RPM and I immediately moved foot from brake pedal. End of acceleration. By this time vehicle had already rolled to a complete stop. I did not, as Ford seems to think, have my foot on both the gas and brake. …”

“Ford crown vic police interceptor,2007: on two previous occasions, upon depressing brake pedal at stop sign, engine would seem to begin to race; however, after stop I would immediately let off brake to go on through stop sign and engine was normal on acceleration. To-day as I left my parking space I approached an automatic gate to pass through and depressed brake pedal to wait for gate to open and engine began to race to the point that I was unable to hold vehicle back and turned off ignition to avoid hitting gate. A large amount of black smoke resulted from racing engine. …”

“My 2007 Crown Victoria has had a worsening unintended acceleration issue over the past year. When hitting hard bumps the car will suddenly begin revving my itself (normal RPM is 600 idling in drive and 800 idling in neutral) when this issue occurs it will sit around 1k rpm in drive (pushing against the brakes so I must hold them down very hard) and will shoot up to 2k rpm in neutral. when the issue is occurring it drives the car forward with no user input. this issue has been becoming more and more frequent with it happening up to 5 times in a 15 minute drive. …”

“I came to normal stop at 4 way stop sign. Started across road and vehicle to my left failed to yield right of way and I had to panic stop. As I hit brakes for panic stop, engine RPM went to max, pulling car forward while I was hard on brakes. I missed violator by only inches. As soon as I let off brakes, engine RPM returned to normal. Ford dealer has previously concluded I hit gas instead of brakes. This is totally absurd in every instance of this event. Had I hit the brakes in this latest incident, I would have totaled the car I was trying to avoid. …”