Ford Recalls 39K Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators Due to Fire Risk
Ford has recalled 39,000 2021 model-year Expeditions and Lincoln Navigators due to a fire risk.
Owners are being asked to park their vehicles outdoors until the company can address the issues.
Ford says it doesn’t yet know the cause of the fires.
Sixteen fires have been reported, with 14 occurring in rental vehicles. Some have happened when the car is turned off.
“Some customers have reported a burning smell and smoke from the front passenger engine compartment while driving.” Ford said. Some fires appeared to have started “in the rear of the engine compartment near the passenger side of the vehicle.”
Still, Ford has not yet recommended that owners stop driving their luxo-barge SUVs.
“We are working around the clock to determine the root cause of this issue and subsequent remedy so that customers can continue to enjoy using their vehicles,” Jeffrey Marentic, general manager of Ford passenger vehicles, said in a statement.
The recall appears to be limited to Expeditions and Navigators built between Dec. 1, 2020 and April 30, 2021.
Ford is also recalling 310,000 heavy-duty trucks because the airbag might not inflate in a crash, and just under 500 Mustang Mach-Es to address a software problem that could cause unintended acceleration or deceleration.
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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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“Some customers have reported a burning smell and smoke from the front passenger engine compartment while driving.” Ford said. Some fires appeared to have started “in the rear of the engine compartment near the passenger side of the vehicle.” So this is the front passenger engine compartment, as opposed to the rear driver engine compartment? But in the rear of the front. Does Ford know its way around an ICE vehicle, or is this a member of the Model e™ team getting in over his head? (Those guys put motors all over.) Just kidding - I enjoy parking outside. (And the Expedition seems like a pretty nice vehicle - if you can't swing a fullsize utility from GM.)
Nobody mentioned Telluride?
"Ford says it doesn’t yet know the cause of the fires." The Lincolns are catching fire from the burning embarrassment of being prettied-up Fords that have to spend their entire existence pretending to not be Fords.
In the last 12 years I have owned a 2008 Mustang convert. A 2015 EB, and just sold a low miles mint 2005 Mustang convert...All great looking and nice driving cars. All three Fords plagued with electrical problems !