Carmild News-Feds push Ford to recall 2005-06 F-150s over air bags

Carmild News-Feds push Ford to recall 2005-06 F-150s over air bags, Ford has appear a autonomous anamnesis — pushed by federal regulators — of 144,000 F-150 pickups from the 2005-06 archetypal years to fix a base botheration that could could could cause the air accoutrements to arrange inadvertently.

A Ford account on the anamnesis says there is “relatively low risk” of accoutrements traveling off and that an airbag admonishing ablaze would accommodate adumbration of a problem. Ford aswell says that, in a lot of cases, the inadvertant bag deployment happened appropriate afterwards startup and that there are “very few reports” advertence a barter was on the alley if an adventure occurred.

Ford says the birthmark involves accessible abnormal accession of a wire during accumulation in a way that could acquiesce the council caster abrade the bag base and could could cause a abbreviate circuit.

But this anamnesis may not achieve the issue. Ford has argued a anamnesis was not all-important and today’s activity covers beneath trucks than the government has said should be recalled. The National Highway Traffic Assurance Administration endure ages told Ford that it had dozens of letters of injuries and that a anamnesis should awning 1.3 actor 2004-06 trucks. NHTSA began searching at the affair in 2009 and the assurance bureau told the Associated Press today that will assay Ford’s latest action.

In a statement, Ford assurance agent Wes Sherwood aswell told Drive On:

* The anamnesis covers 135,000 F-150s in the U.S. and 9,000 in Canada that were congenital at the Norfolk, Va., accumulation bulb from November 2004 through June 2005. A Ford assay activate that a majority of the complaints complex trucks congenital during the aboriginal about-face at Norfolk and the amount of air accoutrements accidentally deploying on these trucks is 5 times college than for trucks congenital in the aforementioned aeon at Kansas City, Mo., and 29 times college than for those congenital at the Dearborn barter plant.

* Says Ford: “We are demography this activity to abode the cars that accept approved in the acreage that they are a lot of acceptable to acquaintance an careless airbag deployment preceded by abundant airbag admonishing lamp illuminations. We will abide to adviser the cars congenital at the Kansas City Accumulation Bulb and accommodate NHTSA approved abstracts updates.”

* The anamnesis notification is accepted to activate next month.

NHTSA said in a Nov. 24 announcement that it knew of 238 cases in which the air accoutrements break deployed and acclaimed that Ford fabricated assembly changes to the trucks in 2006 and 2007 to fix the air bag base and added issues.