Mary Hentges

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• December 6, 2000, on Ford Story:

  I have a 1995 Mercury Mystique which recently has a bad vibration when I am stopped and it is in gear. After having it in the Mercury dealership for several days, they finally said it needed an Idle Control Valve. I also had the speedometer cable break at 54,500. They replaced these items at a cost of $339.00. Later when I got on the freeway, the gas pedal was very hard to push. I got off the freeway and a little later was driving on a 3 lane boulevard when the gas pedal stuck at 50mph. After attempting to stop using brakes and emergency brake to no avail, I was able to drop off the pavement onto a wide dirt shoulder and turn off the engine. Luckily I wasn't on the freeway and had someplace to go, or I would have been killed. I had Auto Club tow the car back to the agency, and it has been there since last Friday evening. I was told today that they have to replace the airbag module and steering wheel. The cost would be $1,000 however under some Ford Service they said I will only...