Regional Recall For Another 830,000 Vehicles with Busted Pawl Springs
**Ford's pawl spring issues have had their doors blown wide open. Yes, I went there. Ford says a recall of 830,000 vehicles in North America is needed to fix doors that may open while driving, but only if those vehicles are in certain areas.
This comes after the feds opened an investigation into 400,000 Focus cars experiencing similar problems to a door latch recall from last year.
The regional recall is limited to areas of "higher ambient temperatures and solar loading." I guess "solar loading" is another term for we really don't wanna do another national recall. This includes cars ever registered or sold in Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Oregon and Washington.
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This Busted Part Allows Ford's Doors to Fly Open While Driving
Ford is having a tough time with its door latches. The seemingly simple devices keep finding new ways to fail allowing doors to fly open while driving, or rebound and hit you when you go to close them. The issues have been investigated and
Related Ford Generations
At least one model year in these 6 generations have a relationship to this story.
We track this because a generation is just a group of model years where very little changes from year-to-year. Chances are owners throughout these generation will want to know about this news. Click on a generation for more information.
2nd Generation C-Max Hybrid
- Years
- 2013–2018
- Reliability
- 60th out of 94
- PainRank™
- 12.18
- Complaints
- 186
3rd Generation Escape
- Years
- 2013–2019
- Reliability
- 88th out of 94
- PainRank™
- 45.69
- Complaints
- 968
3rd Generation Focus
- Years
- 2012–2019
- Reliability
- 87th out of 94
- PainRank™
- 43.55
- Complaints
- 1851
6th Generation Mustang
- Years
- 2015–2020
- Reliability
- 61st out of 94
- PainRank™
- 12.5
- Complaints
- 181
2nd Generation Transit Connect
- Years
- 2013–2020
- Reliability
- 30th out of 94
- PainRank™
- 2.77
- Complaints
- 44