Ford, Lincoln Recall 198,000 Expedition and Navigator SUVs for Fire Risk

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.Ford, LincolnMotorCo recall 198,000 Expedition and Navigator SUVs for fire risk:

Ford has announced it will recall 163,253 Ford Expedition and 35,229 Lincoln Navigator SUVs from the 2015 through 2017 model years over a fire risk.To date, Ford has received 25 complaints of fires believed to be caused by the problem.

Ford Motor Company will recall 198,482 2015–2017 Ford Expedition and Lincoln Navigator SUVs because of the danger of an interior fire. The automaker believes the problem is a defect in the blower motor located behind the glovebox. Although the company has been unable to pinpoint a cause of the motor failure, there have been 25 reports of fires in these vehicles, of which 13 were localized to the area of the blower and 12 caused more extensive damage, including one report of injuries to a person's hand. In every case, vehicles were running at the time the fires started.

Source: Car News Wire (carnewswire.net)

 

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