For the past ten years, Ford has been doing a dance with the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis

For the past ten years, Ford has been doing a dance with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and consumers over the issue of leaking cruise control switches in certain rodeway inns company vehicles. As of 2008, it had recalled some 9.6 million vehicles to repair a faulty Texas Instruments cruise-control deactivation switch, and now after a NHTSA investigation, the Blue Oval has added 4.5 million more Ford and Mercury vehicles to the recall.
According to NHTSA, rodeway inns the switch can leak and overheat, which can lead to smoking and, in some cases, fire. In fact, The Detroit News notes that the switches have been faulted in more than 550 fires some of which led to fatalities many of which have led to lawsuits. A Ford statement declared, "Aside from the Windstar, rodeway inns the additional vehicles addressed in this action have different system parameters and do not pose an unreasonable risk to safety. However, Ford is taking this action on all of these vehicles to address possible ongoing customer lack of confidence in vehicles with the affected switch."
The recall begins on October 26. Anyone with an affected vehicle can take it to a Ford dealer and have the switch repaired with a fused harness. Owners can get more information directly from NHTSA by calling the government agency's hotline at 1-888-327-4236 . Thanks to everyone for the tips!
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Can anyone help me understand why, when I go to the Ford website under recalls and enter my vin# its says no recall for this vehicle. I have a 2003 Ford Windstar rodeway inns the dash is lit up like a Christmas tree with ABS lights Brake Lights and the cruise only shuts off when you step on the brake, you cant tell me there is not some Texas instrument part some where in this van. My god I would be happy at this point to have anything replaced for free, instead of paying another $500.00 for this and that..........Thanks for your help
What about a pickup Super Duty with 114,000 miles and has had 2 # 6 injectors replaced and is in a Ford shop as we speak with guess what a # 6 injector out, plus the harnes to it is bad, plus the module is bad plus the glow plug is bad, They say there's a better injector now and I need to replace 4 of the 8. I guess the other 4 is okay. That's about a crop of bull. Plus it's out of warranty and they want $3,200.00 to fix a problem they babied till it was out of warranty. Makes me want to go back to Dodge. They put a new transmission, radiator and all new lines on one of my older pickups that was 25,000 miles out of warranty. They said they had a problem and once they found out what it was that I'd get another recall and fix it. That Transmission deal was over 3,000.00 and it cost me $50.00. I can honestly say that all of my Dodges over the years that they took care of the problem and did not try and push it off on me. Thanks Dodge, I'll be back. I love my Ford but at this rate I can't aford to pay for their mistakes. Danny
Well...one of the problems results in you waking up to find that you and your house are on fire. The other one requires you not knowing how to turn your car off or shift into neutral or pull the mat off the accelerator, or pull up on the accelerator with your foot, or forcing it to slow down with the brakes then crashing it at a low speed and instead calling 911 and being unlucky enough to crash spectacularly. Frankly I'll take my chances with the one where I'm not sleeping.
Yeah you're right... After all it's Toyota... they can do no wrong! I don't know about you but if my master cylinder was leaking I would get it fixed well before it started a fire. Seriously though, every car company makes their share of mistakes and bad products. What's a shame is that people let the media pollute their minds with exaggeration and untruth. When I bought my 1995 Taurus 3.8L I thought I was going to be in for blown head gaskets and grenading transmissions. Truth is I bought it at 124K with a known trans issue and didn't replace the trans until 210K, and that was by choice, and with a junkyard trans! Head gaskets went once since I owned the car and that was 143K after they were done last. I also drive this car like my supercharged T-bird... :)
Is it really a Ford problem? I mean Texas Instruments made the darn things so we and Ford should be angry at Texas Instruments for making such a poor product. If anyone is doubting the effected vehicles quality my mom has a 1998 Windstar Limited and its the most reliable rodeway inns vehicle we've ever owned! No major problems with it ever! 102,000 miles and still rolling strong and smooth!
This is one reason I would avoid most Ford products produced before 2005, lots of reliability issues. Ford is making much better cars under Mulally's control and even produced some decent vehicles during Bill Ford's last couple years, my 2007 focus is a great car.
As much as I hate to even answer your trolling I feel my post needs some further explanation. I'm not in anyway condoning this matter. I guess you being an engineer knows it was Ford telling Texas Instruments to cheap out on the part and not Texas Instruments making an inferior product. It definitely does suck to have your house burn down as I'm sure it sucks to have your throttle stick because of your floor mat and helplessly crash and burn in your Toyota. If Ford sucks so badly why do they outsell both Toyota and Honda worldwide? Just a thought...
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