Passenger car – Ford Maverick and Ford Escape
Ford
Motor vehiclesFire
- Country of origin
- Germany
- Notifying country
- Germany
- Counterfeit
- No
- Sold online
- No
What is the danger
This product poses a serious risk of fire because of badly fitted cable seals on the ABS module plug, the latter can become contaminated, leading to a short-circuit. Excessive heat generation in the ABS module can cause a smell of burning and smoke. In extreme cases the vehicle can catch fire. This might also happen after the engine has been switched off.
Measures taken
- Voluntary corrective actions taken by the manufacturer Voluntary measuresTaken by: Other
Product
- Description
- Concerns vehicles with left-hand drive and ABS built between 22 October 1999 and 23 January 2004.
- Brand
- Model / type
Original source
Data comes from the official Safety Gate system of the European Commission.
- Alert number
- 0606/07 ↗
- Weekly report
- Report-2007-25
- Published
- 28 June 2007
- Corrigendum
- Corrigenda 1- On the base of additional data provided by the Italian authority, information about the models of products covered by notification 0179/07 has been modified. Notification 0179/07 of week 8 concerns the models INDESIT: WIL86, WIL66, WIL62, WIL146, WIL105, WIL126, WIE107 and WIE87, and ARISTON: AVL105, AVL89, AVL109. 2- Notification 0512/07 of week 22 concerning an oval shaped Marinex Celebrity 3,2 lt. baking dish has been withdrawn because the product complies with the requirements of the European standard EN 13834.
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