Ford Recalls Nearly 1.5 Million More Vehicles
Ford has recalled another 1.5 million vehicles.
This recall is for rearview cameras. A malfunction may result in distorted, blank, or intermittent images when the vehicle is in reverse.
Affected vehicles include the Ford Explorer, Escape, Mustang, Flex, and Fiesta. Some Lincoln models are affected, too.
Ford dealers will inspect the the rearview camera and replace if necessary.
It's unclear if this is part of the recall we reported on last week.
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Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.
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Even Ford has limited resources, so I wonder how much manpower is being spent on recalls that would otherwise go into new product development or other support work. This is a tradeoff every company makes.
Every single recall requires:
I haven't worked in automotive, but in the commercial/industrial and medical device world. Every concern about product in the field meant going through this process, and it's extremely time-consuming and costly. Imagine trying to do this for dozens of recalls simultaneously.
The old saying applies - "we don't have time to get it right now, but we will later".
The backup camera in my car just shows movies of people getting run over. Useless.