‘Stop driving… immediately,’ Ford tells owners of removed 2006 Ranger pickups

Ford is recalling another 2,900 Ranger pickup trucks including 190 in Canada since they have been related to dual deaths due to poor Takata airbag inflators.

The automaker urged in a recover on Thursday for owners to stop pushing a trucks immediately after apropos wakeful final month of a pile-up in West Virginia, that happened in July, involving a 2006 Ford Ranger. The motorist in that collision was killed. It was the second such deadliness related a same indication and year, following another accident in Jan 2016.

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Both Rangers were versed with Takata airbag inflators built on a same day. At slightest 21 deaths worldwide have been related to a Takata inflators, which can detonation and send lethal steel fragments into a driver’s body. 

“Ford is saddened by these comfortless waste and offers a frank condolences to a drivers’ families,” a association said.

Ford had formerly removed some 391,000 Rangers from several model-years, but a vehicles in a new remember are all 2006 models built during a Twin Cities Assembly Plant in Minnesota from Aug. 10, 2005 to Dec. 15, 2005.

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The remember involves approximately 2,902 vehicles located in North America, with 2,712 located in a United States and 190 in Canada.

The association has set adult a website where drivers can check their car marker numbers to see if their lorry is enclosed in a recall. If it is, their instructions are utterly clear: Stop pushing it, now.

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“We take this matter really severely and are advising owners of these specific 2006 Ford Rangers to stop pushing their vehicles so dealers can make repairs immediately,” Ford said. “Dealers are prepared to get vehicles directly from customers, make permanent repairs that will solve a reserve risk and yield a giveaway halt loaner vehicle, if necessary.”

Takata pronounced final summer that it has recalled, or approaching to recall, airbags in about 125 million vehicles worldwide by 2019, and 19 different automakers worldwide are impacted.

The forsake led Takata to record for failure insurance in June, though a association still faces mixed lawsuits.

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Article source: http://www.cbc.ca/news/business/ford-ranger-recall-1.4483370?cmp=rss