2009 Ford Taurus Transmission and drivetrain Problems

“The car has low miles for the year 42k. The transmission has always been erratic, hard shifting, holding gears for too long. A new problem that is happening, in the morning car clunks extremely hard into second gear. I went to accelerate onto a busy road and the transmission banged so hard it startled us and lost power. There's a safety concern with this because it lost all power and we were almost hit by an approching car. After doing searches on the internet, I found this is a common problem with a lot of Ford Taurus model. …”

“My 2009 Taurus lmtd awd 6 speed 3.5 v6 would roll back on a hill quite a bit and if you press the gas, it stalls and you have no brakes. I brought this to the dealer and was told this is a normal characteristic. The lower idle speed on the car does not overcome the tc slip under that condition. Recommended no repair attempts be made I have docs on this. Another dealer had the same car and it did the same thing, but a 3rd Ford dealer was more concerned why it stalled. I was told so it did not hurt the transmission, (verbally told this).”

“New 2010 Ford Taurus sel a few weeks old has a dangerous defect in the transmission or clutch mechanism. The problem occurs after stopping in traffic on an inclined street, when traffic starts and you let off the brake to move your foot the accelerator, the car freely rolls backwards toward the car behind you before you can reasonably apply power with the accelerator to stop the rolling. The transmission is in drive in the circumstances described. This also occurs when parallel parking at a curb where the street is not level. …”

“On 4 separate occassions, my 2009 Ford Taurus limited automatic transmission dropped out of gear while I was accelerating slowly away from a stop The times they have occurred Is from a stop sign into traffic. It dropped out of gear at about 5 mph and made a growling noise. . I put my foot on the brake. When I started it again everything worked fine. . I was leaving a parking lot and I had reached a speed of 5-15 mph when there was no longer any gear, then it slammed into gear for a moment, went a few feet, then dropped out again, then slammed into gear again. …”

“The contact owns a 2009 Ford Taurus. The contact stated that while reversing out of residential garage, he attempted to shift into drive but the vehicle suddenly accelerated and crashed into a parked vehicle. The vehicle was taken to the dealer, who diagnosed that the PCM was not programmed correctly. As a result, the PCM needed to be reset. The manufacturer was not made aware of the failure. The vehicle was not repaired. The failure and current mileage was 39,000.”