[Petronski]

I toured the St. Thomas Assembly Plant in Ontario a few weeks ago, and the engineers there spoke to this issue. These rear-end collisions occured at extraordinarily high-speeds--impacts of a kind that no fuel system can be expected to survive.

Nonetheless, I get the distinct impression from them and others in the Police Interceptor community that some kind of voluntary recall to grind down the offending studs and/or add a protective plate will be initiated by Ford, even though the problem is quite rarefied.

This is my Crown Vic, as photographed outside that plant:

[Shermy]

Thanks for the inside info.