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There isn’t a massive parts market for the Ford Taurus as far as i know, but i got one of my little brothers, he owns a Ford Taurus and has installed some massive subwoofers, its an old beater car, but its a good starter, currently has what i am sure to be a bad fuel injector so it misses on a cylinder, but hey once he gets that fixed he has a good running car.
Yeah Taurus’s are great cars. I have owned two! I had a green 1997 can’t recall the engine, but let my sister use it told her it leaked antifreeze so fill it up with a gallon of water ever two weeks, and she didn’t and she drove it on the highway home smoking from the engine and everything. I cried… It was in the family for 17 years, original owner. Ran and started no problem but it would eat water, you’d put 4 gallons of water into the radiator and it would all leak out after 4 miles… Sold it for 300 haha. Just bought a 1996 ford Taurus lx, 3.0L v6 24 Valve Duratec. I wrecked it going 70mph on the interstate into a concrete barrier and I got it fixed(don’t ask me how), and it run like a champ. I just can’t kill these vehicles.
Transmission problems in them.The 3.0 dohc vin S engine is actually a Mazda engine made for Ford.I replace lots of struts,front and rear in these with the loaded struts because the spring breaks in them and takes out a tire or two.Ford had a recall on this and their fix was install a sheet metal guard so the broken part of the spring does not puncture the sidewall of the tire.The best V6 that was installed in the Taurus was the Vulcan 3.0 V6.Get a misfire with the Vulcan 3.0 V6,most likely the coil and these do eat coils.There was one engine that was a pile of junk in the Taurus,1987 to 1995 model years.It was the 3.8 and could not keep headgaskets in these.1991 was the really bad year for transmissions.
This is the best modification for a Taurus that I can think of
well… i guess the Ford Taurus is not a liked car buy many here? lol.
Personally i think the Ford Taurus is a ok car, but ironically i have never had to do much work with them, when people hate fords they HATE fords… lol.
I don’t hate Fords just the Taurus. From my years of working on them I have started to like them less every time one comes in.
Here is one from down under that was destroyed and was butt ugly, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2VhZ0FLL0
hood scoops on a ford taurus… to each his own i suppose… i am not going to make fun of anyone for doing something like that to a taurus but it sure doesn’t look good to me.
While I’m not enthusiastic over Tauruses, I have a certain type of admiration for machines that do the job they were designed for without drama. The Taurus certainly fits that category.
I’ve owned a Sable, cousin to the Taurus, and it was a great car. The only mod I made to it was moving the trouble-prone TFI ignition module from the distributor and mounting it on a finned aluminum heat sink inside of the air cleaner housing to prevent the very common heat failure.
The Taurus and Sables are good cars. Regarding complaints about them you have to consider this. Look how popular and how many millions and millions of them were sold. Factor the number of complaints (say transmissions) against the number of cars built and and how many did NOT fail.
Most transmission failures are caused by failure to change the fluid. That’s even verified by a buddy of mine who has been a transmission only repairman for over 40 years.The Sable I had was still running and driving well when I sold it at about 420k miles. It used a quart of oil per 600 miles by that time but most of that was due to a leaky rear main seal which I had no desire to change.
A couple of neighbors of mine owned Tauruses (Tauri…?) and put about 275k and 300k miles on them respectively with no issues.Owned a 2nd year model SHO for a while. My mother owned a 91 w/ a 3.8 liter, and a 2004 with the old Vulcan 3.0 liter… My experiance is the 3.0 liter Vulcan engine is just complete junk… the 3.8 liter is a beast, and the SHO engine has one of the most complicated intake manifold systems I have ever messed with. Overall they are a decent car… But I have no love for the 3.0 liter Vulcan.
The 3.0 Vulcan has a reputation as a great engine. The Sable I owned and the Tauruses my neighbors owned all had the Vulcan engine in them.
A Ford only salvage I used to deal with (changed ownership a few years ago and started carrying everything) had an entire herd of 3.0 Vulcan engines sitting on the storage racks in the building.
The manager told me the reason they had all of the Vulcan engines on the racks is because the engine is so reliable they seldom ever sell one.[quote=”wafrederick” post=145508]Here is one from down under that was destroyed and was butt ugly, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2VhZ0FLL0%5B/quote%5D
That is a Mercury Sable, look at the headlights.
Call me blasphemous, but 1999 Mercury Sable GS was a great car.
I love the Taurus because they’re just money in the bank for me. I can always find a leaking rack & pinion, BAD STRUTS, loose tie rods & ball joints, BAD STRUTS, loose sway bar links, BAD STRUTS, bad starters, fuel pumps, and sidewall punctures in tires from BAD STRUTS. Ironically, I can actually sell most of the work I find on these cars except for the bad struts. I usually need that blown out tire with the coil jammed in the sidewall to get a strut sold on a Taurus.
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