2008 Ford Taurus X Suspension Problems

“Driving down the road straight, our car made a pop sound and suddenly lurched and steering was impaired. Car was taken to the nearest dealership where they found the engine cradle/front sub frame had rusted through internally causing the sway bar to break away and it had perforated around the mount for the control arm. We were extremely fortunate the control arm didn't completely drop out causing an accident. Failure is almost identical to the Ford escape subframe recall. …”

“Hood released while driving at 35 MPH a total of 3 times. Computer reported a tire sensor inflation issues while driving. Air pressure was fine. Popping, loud grinding noise while driving has returned even after it was serviced due to the drivetrain and transmission. Sounds and feels like something is loose while driving at 45 MPH in the suspension, even though we were told that is normal for that vehicle. While turning out from a parking lot, the vehicle sounded and felt like the entire undercarriage had fallen on the ground while we were driving forward. …”

“I was driving on a hilly country road at the rate of 40 to 45 miles an hour. As I was coming down an incline, I lost control of the back of the vehicle. The tail end was swaying from side to side like I was driving on ice. As I decelerated and tried to find a safe place to pull off the road, the steering wheel pulled completely to the right while the tail end of the car continued to sway from side to side. Once I was able to stop the car, I could see the part that was holding the rear passenger tire to the frame hanging on the ground.”

“The transmission of our 2008 Ford Taurus X (49k miles) went into fail-safe mode on 6/21/2010 and was immediately taken to team Ford. There was also a problem with the parking brake pedal working intermittently so we asked that this problem also be fixed while the vehicle was in their shop. The service manage said that they were backed up on the transmission (8 of them - not good) and would be a while so they would take care of the parking brake first. …”

“I was driving approx. 75 MPH down the interstate and lost control of my 2008 Taurus X. My vehicle left the road several times, almost overturned before I was able to get it stopped. A witness said my car was going sideways and he could not believe it didn't roll. The left lower control arm broke off of the sub frame. Ford motor company had an engineer look at the vehicle as they said this has never happened before and wanted to make sure that I had not hit anything. Ford has to been cooperative. I wanted to talk to the engineer or someone from Ford because I'm now afraid to drive this car. …”