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Federal vehicle security regulators on Monday revealed 2 brand-new examinations into Ford Motor Co. (F +1.91%)– simply days after fining the car manufacturer with the second-largest charge in history for postponing recalls.
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) stated it had actually opened an initial examination to examine accusations that design year 2021 Ford Bronco Sport SUVs were losing power. The regulator kept in mind that it had actually gotten 15 reports explaining the concern, including that reports appeared comparable to a previous recall associated with design year 2022-2023 Ford Maverick pickups and 2021-2024 Ford Bronco Sport SUVs.
Some 456,000 automobiles are approximated to be impacted by the supposed issues in the Maverick and Bronco Sport cars, which come from a degrading battery that can stop working. If it does, “customers might experience a total loss of engine power without the capability to reboot, accompanied by the loss of 12V devices, consisting of danger lights,” the NHTSA stated.
The 2nd examination worries the 2019-2020 design year Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator. The NHTSA stated it had actually gotten 3 grievances over a part in the Expeditions' safety belt accidentally releasing, which problems state was marked by a loud noise followed by the safety belt “quickly tightening up.”
In February, Ford remembered design year 2018-2020 Expedition and 2018-2020 Navigator automobiles, which were geared up with safety belt retractor pretensioners that might have rusted parts. The defective parts in those designs were developed in between October 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019.
The NHTSA stated the problems declare that the 2019-2020 Expedition was not consisted of in the recall however is experiencing the very same failures. The firm included that it had actually likewise gotten reports declaring comparable concerns in Expedition and Navigator designs made with parts outside the October 2018 to June 2019 timeframe. More than 112,560 systems are consisted of in the NHTSA's query.
The queries followed the NHTSA fined Ford approximately $165 million for postponing the recall of more than 600,000 automobiles with faulty rearview cams. The civil charge came as part of a permission order needing Ford to examine all remembers it has actually released over the previous 3 years.
Quality issues aren't brand-new to Ford. The Detroit car manufacturer was the leader in recalls for 2023 and tape-recorded $1.9 billion in excess service warranty expenses.
Still, the business has actually reported development on repairing those concerns. Jim Farley, Ford's CEO, last month indicated the business's absence of service warranty spikes surrounding the high-volume launches of the design year 2024 F-150 and Escape automobiles. Farley has actually formerly revealed remorse over Ford's postponed reaction to totally tackling its quality problems.
