2007 Ford Freestyle Electrical system Problems

“We went out to the garage to get in the car to leave. I opened the back of the car to put a bag in. My daughter went to the passenger side to get in and the mirror was smoking. We went to get a fire extinguisher but it burned out on its own. There was smoke and flames coming from behind the mirror glass. I unplugged the mirror to keep it from burning again. Now my windows don't work.”

“The car stalls out and I get the wrench on my dashboard. The car will restart after a few minutes and runs fine at that point. This apparently means that there is a powertrain fault detected. When the diagnostics were ran they pulled the code u0401 and the dealer told me that there were alot of freestyles and mercury's with this code and that it would be $280.00 to diagnose the problem.”

“I left work at 8:10 p.m. Starting driving home and my battery light came on while driving on a major highway and then everything shut down radio a.c. All gauges windows power locks lights . I was panicked I had just picked up the car the afternoon before from the Ford dealership for a recall fix because this same thing happened already I was told the recall fix would solve the problem obviously it did not. Now Ford wants to charge a diagnostic fee to find the problem after failing to fix the problem to begin with . …”

“Owned vehicle for three years. 4-7 times while driving at highway speed only in cruise control the car would completely turn off. Switching the ignition off and then starting it again would result in normal function. Got so that I did not even have to pull to side of road as I could complete the switch off on in neutral and restart whole still in motion. Occurrence was random. Always weeks or months apart. Had dealer check system three times but no cause could be found.”

“While driving on highway my traction control, airbag, seat belt, ABS & parking brake lights came on. I was able to drive car home, but soon after my transmission was also affected.took car to dealer and a week later, they finally found the traction control motor is gone and needs to be replaced $900.00.dealer doesn't know if the traction controller needs to be replaced too, but will test that after loading new motor. If the controller needs to be replaced ,then it's another 1,200.00 on top of everything else. …”