01-27-2005, 06:46 PM | #2 (permalink) | |
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02-02-2005, 09:21 AM | #4 (permalink) | |
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02-03-2005, 12:27 AM | #8 (permalink) | |
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02-14-2005, 11:25 PM | #11 (permalink) |
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Location: Florida
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The really shitty part is, those trucks are not the only Fords with fire-prone cruise control systems. The details are vague, but I'm pretty sure this recall involves the fail-safe switch that deactivates the cruise control when it senses brake line pressure.
That stupid thing burned up a few months ago on my '93 Lincoln Mark VIII while it was sitting in my garage. I parked it and everything was fine, 2 hours later I went out and the garage was full of smoke. It had burned up the wiring for the brake switch too, which meant the brake lights didn't work and I couldn't shift out of park. It cost over $500 to have fixed because the master cylinder had to come out to get to the damaged areas, plus a lot of wires needed to be repaired. The mechanic said he had seen it happen several times, and I found several message board posts where people mentioned this same exact problem. That switch always gets power even when the car is shut off, which makes it that much more of a hazard. I did have some advance warning, as the cruise control had stopped working about a week prior to the switch burning up. I didn't think much of it at the time, since I don't use it very often. I certainly didn't expect it being broken to nearly burn down my car and house! So if you have a Ford, you should use the cruise control periodically (leaving it shut off won't do anything to prevent this problem!), and get it checked out if it craps out. I also had a problem with my '88 Thunderbird--it began having some really weird electrical problems (half the interior electrical stuff dead, displays flickering, gauges jumping around, etc.). I poked around and found the ignition switch was melted and charred in a few spots; the warped plastic was making the contacts shift around which is why it was acting up. The best part was, there had been a recall on those cars for that reason--the fix was an updated, beefier ignition switch. I looked up the part number on my burned-up switch, and sure enough it was the "improved" replacement version. The brand new switch I picked up at the Ford dealer had the same part number, too. I like Fords, but their electrical systems leave a lot to be desired. |
02-15-2005, 02:11 AM | #12 (permalink) |
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Location: Alaska, USA
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I have had numerous Fords, Jeeps, Subarus and Toyotas. It seems that they ALL have had a recall or more. My father-in-law is a tried and true Chevy man. He is always taking his vehicles in for recalls too. It is not a Ford thing.
I have learned to take my 10 year or less old vehicles to the dealer for service. They perform more informed service AND they complete all outstanding recalls. It has saved me money over the years in wasted labor charges. If a small shop would have completed some of the work I am sure the number of hours taken to troubleshoot the problems would have out weighed the cost of utilizing the dealership. My wife works at a dealership and the stories that she hears from people that take their cars to small shops are almost gastly! I wonder how many people own Toyotas from the mid 90's that can get a FREE motor (or how many people have paid a shop to rebuild theit Toyota motor when it would be covered at the dealer). Only a dealership can identify this type of covered service and complete the work.
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02-15-2005, 07:42 PM | #14 (permalink) |
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Location: San Diego
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yep, everyone has recalls, it just that with shared platfroms, and shared components a potential recall can affect far more vehicles than in the past. also the number of issues that need to arise to trigger a recall is decreasing. GM issued a recall ont eh windsheild wiper motor/module on the envoy/trailblazer/reiner/bravada/ascender because a dozen crashes resulted form the wiper system losing interment settings. on all the vehicles produced on this platform (close to 1.7 million total IIRC) a very very small fraction of a single percentage was enough to trigger a recall.
Gm is currently mailing out flyers to specific c/K platform owners over a potential shearing of a pinch bolt for the steering shaft (the shaft is square shapped so even if broken it should maintane stearing ability)... customer with an affected vehicle are being offered free tows into the dealer for the bolt to be replaced. this was triggered by maybe a half dozen failures. basicly the rule of thumb with recalls is to bring in any vehicle that maybe affected, even if the percentage of failuers is limited to fractions of a single percentage. |
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