DETROIT: A manufacturing problem at a company that makes fuel lines forced Ford to recall thousands of its brand-new Escape small SUVs and tell owners to stop driving them right away.Ford Motor Company announced the recall on Thursday, saying there was a risk of an engine fire.
In documents filed by Ford and posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration?s website, the company said fuel lines were ?mechanically scored? or damaged on the outside during manufacturing. The lines, made by a TI Group Automotive Systems plant in Indiana, can split when pushed over a connector fitting, and leaking fuel could ignite.
The recall involved 11,500 Escape cars. About 4,800 have been sold to customers; the rest are still on dealer lots.
Ford urged customers in the US and Canada not to drive the SUVs and to contact dealers, who would pick up the Escape and drop off a loaner car. The problem affects only 2013 Escapes equipped with 1.6-litre, four-cylinder engines.
TI Automotive spokesman Frank Buscemi said in an email that the company is ?working with Ford to identify root cause and resolve the issue.?
The problem was discovered on June 9 when a newly built Escape caught fire while a Ford worker was driving it from the Louisville assembly plant in Kentucky to a holding lot for shipping, the documents said.
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