Injuries

Passenger car - Axle shaft end of passenger car

FORD
Case number
0426/08
Category
Motor vehicles
Type / Model
Transit 2000.5 RWD (Recall Ref: 7C136).
Audience
Consumer
Notifying country
🇬🇷 Greece
Country of origin
🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Published
2008-04-18

⚠️ Risk

The product poses a risk of injuries because of wear within the rear axle, between the axle shafts and the differential pinion shaft. Wearing away of the axle shaft will cause axle noise and a change in the vehicle's handling characteristics may be noticed. In cases of severe wearing, it may be possible for the axle shaft retaining clips to detach, resulting in the axle shafts coming out of the casing, thus causing loss of steering and possible instability.

Measures

Type of economic operator taking notified measure(s): OtherCategory of measure(s): Voluntary corrective action taken by the importer.Date of entry into force: Unknown

The recall concerns 2003 to 2006 model year FORD Transit cars, produced from 11.12.2003 until 30.04.2006 (Southampton, UK) and from 11.12.2003 until 30.07.2005 (Kocaeli, Turkey.