| uncljohn |
10-20-2012 10:07 PM |
>Ford recalls 2013 Escapes for fire risk - warns against driving them<
The article refers to some 11,000 + with 3 fires, 2 in the factory and one to a Canadian which may be directly related to trying to get the thing warm enough to start! Who knows.
But some how it just seems to me that something that carries who knows how much gasoline around in a plastic gas tank by itself it a fire hazard. I know where I live if you take a plastic gas can to a gasoline station to fill it up they won't let you. Putting wheels and a motor in it doesn't make it any safer, just easier to get to the gas station.
Hell, half the cars I have owned had piddled gasoline sometime during the time I owned them. Including the 2nd car I owned which had the gasoline tank as part of the dashboard and had a sight glass in the dash board that you could see the amount to gasoline in the tank. And it leaked. So if you filled it over half full, it got your clothes soaked.
No one ever recalled that.
Or as stated earlier that my friend who recently bought a low mileage one owner Corvette has already been told by the dealer some of the things wrong with it can not be fixed because parts are no longer made for it.
And people are getting worried that something happened on an assembly line? With stock rooms full of parts? I thought that is what the quality control department was for. At least that was what quality control was for when I worked on an assembly line. The world sure has changed.
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