# Ford Windstar Recall

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484>\
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [December 22, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484 "2010-12-22T09:24:51Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 19\
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**Author:** ![Onyx\_Z32](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/onyx_z32/32/7581_2.png) [@Onyx\_Z32](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Onyx_Z32)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/1 "2010-12-22T09:24:51Z")

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Rear axle bars snap… [-\> VIDEO LINK \<-](http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/ford-issues-recall-windstar-minivans-toyota-break-failure-american-cars-vehicles-business-12454077)

What did they do here? Cut and oval into the axle then re-weld it? Is that just part of the manufacturing process?

![http://www.fordwindstarrecall.info/axel1.jpg](http://www.fordwindstarrecall.info/axel1.jpg)

![http://www.fordwindstarrecall.info/100_1390S-DOC.JPG](http://www.fordwindstarrecall.info/100_1390S-DOC.JPG)

![http://www.fordwindstarrecall.info/100_1393S-DOC.JPG](http://www.fordwindstarrecall.info/100_1393S-DOC.JPG)

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**Author:** ![yunvme666](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/yunvme666/32/5065_2.png) [@yunvme666](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/yunvme666)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 10:14am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/2 "2010-12-22T10:14:42Z")

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ive welded 2 of those so far, thats a really shitty design… the metals soo thin, and up here it just dont last…lol… i dunno when they all started breaking, but i welded them 2 a few years back …lol…

— i been on comp for months now, so i just text the office idiot. he said one of the windstars went to ford and sat for almost 2 months waiting for parts after it broke again near the other side…

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**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 11:27am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/3 "2010-12-22T11:27:44Z")

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That video is just heartbreaking. Right after the guy dies and leaves his wife and kids behind the recall notice comes in the mail.

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**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2010, 2:24pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/4 "2010-12-22T14:24:10Z")

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wow.

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**Author:** ![LUKE\_L](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/luke_l/32/7462_2.png) [@LUKE\_L](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LUKE_L)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 4:56am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/5 "2010-12-23T04:56:03Z")

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^Ditto.

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**Author:** ![08GT500](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/08gt500/32/5417_2.png) [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 7:58am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/6 "2010-12-23T07:58:32Z")

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Unfortunate.

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**Author:** ![Saxon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Saxon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Saxon)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/7 "2010-12-23T09:44:47Z")

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thats really unfortunate

its crazy that this isn’t blasted everywhere on the internet/news since its been a known problem, if this were Toyota the media would be trying to them shut down permanently

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**Author:** ![fairgentleman\_Z](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/fairgentleman_z/32/7263_2.png) [@fairgentleman\_Z](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/fairgentleman_Z)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 10:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/8 "2010-12-23T10:23:07Z")

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oh snap, the Nissan Quest/Mercury Villager and the Tuarus cars are all on different platforms.

> **[Ford V platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_V_platform)**
>
> The Ford V platform is an automobile platform produced by Ford Motor Company for minivans designed in North America. Introduced for the 1999 model year, it replaced minivans designed on the Ford D186 platform (shared with the mid-size Ford Taurus). After 2007, the V platform was discontinued in favor of large CUVs based on the Ford D3 and D4 platforms. As of the 2017 model year, the only seven-seat Ford minivan sold in North America is the long-wheelbase Ford Transit Connect wagon, which does not...

> **[Ford D186 platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_D186_platform)**
>
> The Ford D186 platform is a automobile platform produced by Ford Motor Company from 1986 to 2007. Replacing the majority of the models based upon the rear-wheel drive Fox platform, it marked the adoption of front-wheel drive for Ford and Mercury mid-size cars. In 1988, it became the basis of an all-new Lincoln Continental, introducing front-wheel drive to the Lincoln division. In 1995, the platform was expanded further as Ford introduced its first front-wheel drive minivan, the Windstar. For the ...

> **[Ford VX54 platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_VX54_platform)**
>
> The Ford VX54 platform was a mid-size minivan platform developed by a joint venture with American automaker, Ford Motor Company and Japanese automaker, Nissan Motors. The platform was specifically developed in 1993 for production of the Mercury Villager and Nissan Quest. The goal was to market a smaller and more stylish minivan that was comfortable and more family-oriented. The minivans were designed to be in between the sizes of Chrysler's Dodge Caravan and Dodge Grand Caravan. It is a modified ...

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**Author:** ![Inn-Tune](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/inn-tune/32/7588_2.png) [@Inn-Tune](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Inn-Tune)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 10:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/9 "2010-12-23T10:25:07Z")

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My parents have a 99 Windstar. I just called them and told them to stop driving it and call a Ford dealer. Scary stuff.

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**Author:** ![Jam](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jam/32/7235_2.png) [@Jam](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Jam)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 12:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/10 "2010-12-23T12:07:07Z")

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My dad has an 02 villager, that isn’t affected is it?

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**Author:** ![rdandy5875](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rdandy5875/32/7511_2.png) [@rdandy5875](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rdandy5875)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 12:17pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/11 "2010-12-23T12:17:40Z")

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WOW. That 35mph crash was scary.

I hope fixed this for the freestar/monterey, we own a 2004…

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**Author:** ![bing](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/bing/32/7211_2.png) [@bing](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/bing)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 6:57pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/12 "2010-12-23T18:57:14Z")

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that car in the pics looks like it was 250,000 north Eastern US / Canadian KM / Miles on it… some of these cars are 13 years old…

anyways… that crash test is insanity

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**Author:** ![psychopjv](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/psychopjv/32/7251_2.png) [@psychopjv](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/psychopjv)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 8:35pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/13 "2010-12-23T20:35:57Z")

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> [@bing](#):
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> that car in the pics looks like it was 250,000 north Eastern US / Canadian KM / Miles on it… some of these cars are 13 years old…
> 
> anyways… that crash test is insanity

you’re nuts. those pictures still have black paint on the axle. thats gone within the first 4 years in this area.

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**Author:** ![Gl1](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/gl1/32/5471_2.png) [@Gl1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Gl1)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/14 "2010-12-23T21:09:15Z")

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ford really messed up with the windstars… they were terrible. my family had one as a kid and it never went a month without needing something.

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**Author:** ![08GT500](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/08gt500/32/5417_2.png) [@08GT500](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/08GT500)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2010, 9:47pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/15 "2010-12-23T21:47:21Z")

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> [@Gl@re](#):
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> ford really messed up with the windstars… they were terrible. my family had one as a kid and it never went a month without needing something.

Lemon perhaps?

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**Author:** ![airhead](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/airhead/32/7471_2.png) [@airhead](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/airhead)\
**Post date:** [December 24, 2010, 12:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/16 "2010-12-24T00:46:05Z")

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> [@08GT500](#):
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> Lemon perhaps?

Most of this things should have been considered lemons. My mom had one- a '95. Complete engine and transmission replacement between 40k and 50K. Thank god for a good warranty. Then a transmission rebuild 3 days before the warranty was up. And that was just the big stuff. Just when she figured she was good for a while after replacing a bunch of stuff, something else failed. I saw that thing at a junkyard a year after she sold it with 93K on the odometer, still looking clean as ever. That’s pretty much normal for an old Windstar.

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**Author:** ![BigEd88](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/biged88/32/5064_2.png) [@BigEd88](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigEd88)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/17 "2010-12-28T08:46:25Z")

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Yikes.

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**Author:** ![nitroinsane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d26b3c/32.png) [@nitroinsane](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/nitroinsane)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 6:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/18 "2010-12-29T06:43:03Z")

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the windstar has one of the most shitty suspension designs by ford. I would say the taurus is number 1

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**Author:** ![91MR2](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/91mr2/32/7217_2.png) [@91MR2](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/91MR2)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 8:05am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/ford-windstar-recall/207484/19 "2010-12-29T08:05:36Z")

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That’s awful.