Gee, in this day and age with all the digital technology you'd think they could notify quicker than snail mail....of course it's only a potential under hood fire hazard so....
Sounds like a 2020s remix of the Ford Pinto debacle.
Guess we have another reason to call them EcoBoom
“The fix includes the installation of a drain tube to redirect any leaking fuel from the engine to the ground...”
The engineer that thought up that jacked up fix musta got his degree from toys R US. SMH
Timing & public safety conflicted on this one. They probably knew it but the death of their famous customer delayed the recall just enough.
WTH? Unprecedented and utter BS.
I presume that they secured an 'emergency authorization' for such a reckless 'fix'. /s (and 'safe & effective' fix /s/s)
“...a fuel leak caused by a cracked fuel injector....”
“The fix includes the installation of a drain tube to redirect any leaking fuel from the engine to the ground”
That doesn’t sound like the right fix.
Still waiting (with millions of other saps) for a recall of my 2010 Explorer with the “Exploder” transmission. My brother the same for his 2012 F150 with the doomed 5.4L SOHC V8 engine. Ford f-ing sucks balls. Never again.
DEI Die.
Old Ford motto: Quality is Job 1.
New Ford motto: Recalls are Job 1.
Anyway, you don’t have to wait for a letter to see if your car is under recall. Go to this site and put in your VIN number.
i wonder if any of the findings were a result of “the darrell brooks waukesha road test”?
That does not sound legit. The fix would to be to stop the leak. Can't believe anything on the internet anymore.
Things like this are the reason I gave up on American car companies years ago. Their culture is toxic, they’re a product of the Harvard MBA school of management that says to cut everything to the absolute minimum acceptable quality level to save money. Never use a metal part when plastic will do, never use two screws if you can get away with one.
Ford, GM, and Chrysler all suffer from the same problem, absolute bare minimum engineering designs that don’t hold up. The public blames the workers who build them but they’re not the problem, most of the foreign badged vehicles sold in the U.S. today are built here by U.S. workers and they aren’t crap like American brands. It’s the corporate philosophy of “build it as cheaply as we can” that directs the engineers to cut as many corners as they can.
The Bronco is a good looking vehicle but it’s cheaply built garbage and I’d never buy one. It’s a shame because it could fill a niche for a lot of people if it could be relied upon. The new Toyota Land Cruiser took a lot of styling cues from the retro look of the Bronco and I’d actually trust it to take off road. I’d never take a Bronco somewhere I couldn’t get a tow truck.