Trucks explains the issue is with the Brake Transmission Shift Interlock (BTSI). It should be noted that only the vehicles that have the gear-shifters mounted on the steering column are affected by this recall cars with the new rotary dial transmission shifters are not affected. It also affects certain 2017- models, however the majority of the vehicles involved are heavy duty trucks, according to FCA,” states. “The recall affects certain 2017-18 models of the Ram 25 pickups, 2017-, 45 chassis cab trucks and 2017- chassis cabs with a gross vehicle weight rating of less than 10,000 pounds. The recall of about 181K trucks of FCA is a very recent phenomenon-two months old. It is present across different models, as evidenced by Dodge being affected by it, and even across different eras, as you will see from another entry. I guess the issue of transmission and gear-switching is not new. No vehicles were actually recalled, but the magnitude of this was so large, that I had to put it here. Through all the litigations and court trips, Ford was able to get away with having to mail 23 stickers that said to make sure shifter is in park. If all those vehicles were asked to be recalled by the government agencies, Ford would have been dead. These were all the vehicles designed by Ford from 1966-1980, which is rather large-just think of all the Mustangs that were built!Īnyway, I haven’t told you the number of vehicles that were affected: 23 million. That is an insane number of complaints, but it makes sense. Twenty-three thousand complaints, folks, 23,000. As of the date of determination, NHTSA had received 23,000 complaints about Ford transmissions, including reports of 6,000 accidents, 1,710 injuries, and 98 fatalities-primarily the young and old, unable to save themselves-directly attributable to transmission slippage.” The alleged problem with the transmissions is that a safety defect permits them to slip accidentally from park to reverse. Here is a version of : “On June 10, 1980, NHTSA made an initial determination of defect in Ford vehicles with C-3, C-4, C-6, FMX, and JATCO automatic transmissions. If the events of the incident had turned out any differently, you might not have known Ford as you know it today. Plus, the afflicted cars will be sitting like un-hired limos in the future no one will want them. The only difference is that VW is losing billions of dollars. If something like that were to happen now… oh wait, wouldn’t that be the VW Diesel Dupe? Yep. (GM ended up losing more than half a billion dollars in settlements to burn victims regarding these vehicles, though.) Both sides took the matter to the court, and Chevy settled with pledging $51 million to “safety programs.” If I wasn’t clear, let me be: the manufacturer flat out refused the US government to recall its unsafe vehicles. The US Department of Transportation argued that there was a problem with the pickup’s fuel-tank placement, and asked Chevy to recall voluntarily. Well, that was not the safest design-the gentlest “T-bone” accident could easily hit the highly flammable gasoline that was just waiting there to convert into something more volatile the gasoline would release energy and become more stable, the very thing nature aims for. Much like the dreaded Pinto, this car had a 20-gallon fuel tank on the sides. Take the example of Chevy’s pickup trucks from 1973.
That was the time when anything and everything was “okay.” Sure, in the 1970s and ‘80s, auto manufacturers were a bit corrupt-scratch that-very corrupt.
Recalls generally happen for a good reason.
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