Ford Recalls Nearly 800,000 Pickups, SUVs

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DEARBORN, Mich. - Ford Motor Co. is recalling nearly 800,000 pickups and sport utility vehicles because the cruise control switch could short circuit and cause a fire under the hood, the nation's second biggest automaker said Thursday.

The recall affects approximately 792,000 Ford F-150 pickups, Ford Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators from the 2000 model year. Also affected are 2001 F-Series Supercrew trucks that were made at the same time.

Ford will notify owners of the recall in February, and dealers will deactivate the cruise control switch for free. Once the company has an adequate supply of replacement switches, it will send another letter notifying owners that they can get their switches replaced.


Ford said cruise control will be disabled once the switch is deactivated.


"We recognize this may be an inconvenience, but we believe this preventive action is in the best interest of our customers' safety," the company said.


The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (news - web sites) opened an investigation into the defect in November after receiving 36 reports of fires. All of the incidents occurred when the vehicle was parked and the ignition was turned off. No injuries were reported.


Ford said it worked closely with NHTSA throughout the investigation.

 

First their crash test ratings were poor, now this. It's ridiculous not that it happened, but the numbers effected [&:]



-Matt-

 

Gee, what I would really want, pay the extra money and have that feature not work because of cheap and poor engineering

 

here is something i dont get
they say ford is the best selling truck so they say
But the only thing you here about them are the recalls
on millions of vehicles they make
but you dont here dodge or chrysler making any recalls
are you

 

Recall

All isn't always as it seems.

 

there is a recal on the durango and dakota for the front ball joints going bad.

the only difference is Dodge is actualy fixing the problem and has the parts on hand to do so.

Ford on the other hand doesn not have the parts available to fix the problem, so all they are doing is unplugging the module

 

but do you see dodge on the news like ford

 

News

on occasion I do.

 

I was just thinking about the irony of a Durango owner posting about a dangerous recall...

I hate Fords, but the irony remains.

 

the durango recall wasn't dangerous. not a single person was injured