Passage Reviews 4 Million Trucks to Settle Fire Hazard

Following quite a while of turning a hard of hearing ear to reports of flames in unattended F-150s and different trucks and SUVs, Portage Engine Co. is at long last reviewing about 4 million of the vehicles to supplant a broken rate control deactivation switch that may bring about underhood fires. 

The evaluated 3.8 million Passage vehicles influenced by the review are from the 1994-2002 model years and incorporate the Portage F-150 pickup and additionally the Portage Endeavor, Lincoln Pilot and Portage Mustang SUVs. 

It's the fourth biggest review in Portage's history. 

The brake liquid in the reviewed vehicles may spill through the rate control deactivation switch into the pace control framework electrical parts, possibly eroding them and prompting fires, the organization said. 

Portage said it will introduce a melded wiring tackle between the switch and the rate control component of the influenced vehicles to go about as an electrical switch. 

In January, Portage reviewed around 792,000 pickup trucks and SUVs for a comparative issue including the velocity control switch. That review included 2000 model-year F-150 pickup trucks, Campaign and Pilot SUVs and 2001 model-year F-Arrangement Supercrew pickup trucks furnished with voyage control. 

The legislature started the deformity examination in Spring including F-150 pickups from the 1995 to 1999 and 2001 to 2002 model years and Passage Undertakings and Lincoln Pilots from the 1997 to 1999 and 2001 to 2002 model years. 

NHTSA has gotten more than 550 protests of motor flames from the voyage control switch in the Portage models.

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