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Ford recalling 1.4M cars for loose steering wheel bolts
Fox 5 NY ^
| MAR 14 2018
| staff
Posted on 03/14/2018 9:42:40 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Ford is recalling nearly 1.4 million midsize cars in North America because the steering wheel can detach from the steering column and drivers could lose control.
The recall covers certain Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ cars from the 2014 through 2018 model years.
Ford says steering wheel bolts can loosen over time. The company says it knows of two crashes and one injury caused by the problem.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: ford; recall
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You don't want to be driving around without a steering wheel.
To: Leaning Right
Autonomous...we don't need no stink'n wheel.
..."watch out for that tree!"
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:46:14 AM PDT
by
RckyRaCoCo
(Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
To: Leaning Right
You don't want to be driving around without a steering wheel.IF you do not have a steering wheel, are you actually driving?
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:46:22 AM PDT
by
Erik Latranyi
(Liberal bastions are full of misogyny, drugs, pedophilia and racism (Hollywood, Academia, DC))
To: Leaning Right
You just have to alternate thrust between the left engine and the right.
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:46:37 AM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: Leaning Right
They are recalling the nuts behind the steering wheel?
To: Leaning Right
I hate it when that happens!.................Had a car once where the shifter came out of the floor!.............
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:47:09 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: Leaning Right
They’re just pretest samples for the driverless cars they are promising us. The program was just a little buggy...
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:47:25 AM PDT
by
Don W
(When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
To: Leaning Right
You don’t want to be driving around without a steering wheel.
Seemed to be a comedy staple in the movies of the 20s and 30s.
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:47:40 AM PDT
by
hanamizu
To: Leaning Right
You really do not need this. Let me help you:
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:47:59 AM PDT
by
rjsimmon
(The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
To: Leaning Right
This brings a whole new meaning to telling your passenger: “Here, you take the wheel”.
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:49:37 AM PDT
by
Bob
(Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
To: Leaning Right
In the end Ford didn’t really save that much money by skipping the Loctite on these bolts.
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:50:20 AM PDT
by
MeganC
(There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
To: BenLurkin
Left and right brake pedals would work.
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:57:19 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Red Badger
I hate it when that happens!.................Had a car once where the shifter came out of the floor!.............Was it an Anti-Establish-Mint green 1969 Mach I?
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posted on
03/14/2018 9:59:49 AM PDT
by
IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
To: Leaning Right
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posted on
03/14/2018 10:01:04 AM PDT
by
bmwcyle
(People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
To: hanamizu
The steering box on my 65 Willys is pretty much gone. Willys wobble.
It might as well not have any steering, it goes mostly where it wants. I hope to rebuild it finally and soon. I’m tired of it sitting.
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posted on
03/14/2018 10:01:05 AM PDT
by
wally_bert
(I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
To: Leaning Right
Let mean guess - bean counter overreach. Some cost cutter decides the steering wheel can do with one less fastener. The result? An expensive recall that also trashes the brand name.
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posted on
03/14/2018 10:02:33 AM PDT
by
Zhang Fei
(Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
To: Leaning Right
“.... the steering wheel can detach from the steering column and drivers could lose control.”
*COULD* lose control? I think this COULD be very the definition of “loss of control”.
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posted on
03/14/2018 10:05:36 AM PDT
by
faucetman
(Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
To: RckyRaCoCo
“You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel”
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posted on
03/14/2018 10:05:42 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: IYAS9YAS
IT WAS A HUNTER GREEN 72 PLYMOUTH CRICKET!..........A BRITISH IMPORT..........
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posted on
03/14/2018 10:06:20 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
To: Leaning Right
Ruh roh.
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posted on
03/14/2018 10:06:48 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(... so much win!)
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