Wednesday, October 14, 2009

ford recall cruise control

ford recall cruise control
The Ford cruise control switch recall includes 14 million Ford, the largest in company history. The reason? Cruise control switch hazard of fire, says the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The original list was updated today. It also represents the outside is the largest in the history of Ford of Canada.
The list of vehicles covered by the recall are the 1995-2002 Explorers/Mercury Mountaineers, 1995-2003 Windstars, 1995-97 and 2001-03 Rangers, 2000-03 Excursions with diesel engine, 1992-2003 Econoline vans and 1993-97, 1994 F35 motor homes and 1999-2003 F-Series Super Duty trucks with diesel engine. Texas Instruments made the switches reports Edmunds. The recall period begins October 26. Ford Motor Co. said Tuesday it will add 4.5 million older-model vehicles to the long list of those recalled because a defective cruise control switch could cause a fire. The latest voluntary action pushes Ford's total recall due to faulty switches to 14.3 million registered vehicles over 10 years, capping the company's largest cumulative recall in history involving a single problem.
Recall covers 1.1 million Ford Windstar minivan that leak through the small risk of fire have internal switches. Ford said in a letter to federal regulators that it found a small number of reported fires in order to identify the problem during an internal investigation that began last year, but how many.

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