Re: Fire But Saved Most Of Tractors

Posted by Blue3992 on December 06, 2005 at 17:44:01 from (172.139.208.210):

In Reply to: Fire But Saved Most Of Tractors posted by IaGary on December 06, 2005 at 17:07:24:

60 minutes or some similar program had a story about the newer Ford trucks and SUV's.

Here's the general gist of what I remember about it:

Appearantly there is a relay or something in the brake fluid resivior. The relay is part of the cruise control system, ie step on the brakes, this realy clicks, and the cruise switches off.

The example they had was some family in LA or somewhere that had this shiny new Expedition. They parked it in the garage, becasue they were afraid if they left it on the street that it would get stolen. Well, the Expedition caught fire, and burned their garage and house down. Wow.

Anyway, for some reason, Ford designed that relay to have power all the time, as opposed to having power to it just when the ignition swithc is on. Well, there have been problems with the relay going bad, heating up, and starting the brake fluid on fire.

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