2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid Steering Problems

“Power steering assist went out while driving car. Steering system fault light went on. Pulled over, turned off engine and then restarted it. Power steering assist worked until a few hours later it went off again in the driveway. Turned off engine and then restarted it and power steering assist worked again. Took car to the dealer on july 31. I was given a loaner car and I picked up my car on august 1.”

“Got in my car put it in reverse and lost power steering. Ford said only some mkz hybirds are recalled but mine isn't on the list. Evidently from what I read all of them should be recalled. My car only has 76,000 miles on it some people was a lot less. I was lucky I wasn't driving at the time. We live on a fixed income and can't afford the cost to get it fixed at the dealership who will charge a fortune. I bought this car a month ago used and now am out the money I paid for it. I paid cash.”

“We took it in for the power steering recall we discovered when we lost all power steering and almost crashed. The dealership is fixing it for the 5th time in 6 weeks and it won't fix. We keep dangerously loosing power steering. Were ministers and serve at our own costs we can't afford to be in danger and not be able to trust our car. They won't stop trying to fix what clearly they can't fix. We feel they should replace the vehichle. Our power steering has now gone out while driving 5 times. …”

“The problem is, every time they replaced the part the new part was no good either and broke back down taking out our power steering out time and time again and 'increasing the risk of accident' like the recall letter to ford and Lincoln dealers sent by michael berardi said it would. I have a copy. The response as can be seen enclosed revisited day one when we called Lincoln about the recall, and they told us it wasn't under recall. You don't know your own recall and your calling it a warranty. Part one of the recall reprograms the power steering control module if it is throwing a code. …”

“While driving slowly (less than 30 MPH), a chime sounded and two messages appeared on my dash-board, power steering assist fault, and service advancetrac. Simultaneously, power steering assist stopped working, requiring me to muscle the steering wheel around in order to maneuver out of harms way. In addition to the incident described above, the same thing (loss of power steering and those two messages) occurred several other times, at various speeds and conditions. I was always able to restore function by restarting the engine once or twice while parked.”