| Subject: | Engine compartment fire |
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| Investigations Summary: | This investigation was opened on Apr. 14, 2009. It was closed on Apr. 15, 2009. The office of defects investigation (odi) received a defect petition dated March 5, 2009 alleging that the petitioner never received the recall remedy for 07v-156 and that, as a result, the petitioner's my2003 Ford escape caught fire at the abs control module. In response to odi follow-up, the manufacturer verified that the petitioner's vehicle had in fact received service related to safety recall 07v156 - a fact later corroborated by the petitioner. Circumstances of the fire experienced in the petitioner's remedied vehicle indicate that the remedy was ineffective. Additional review by odi identified an additional 6 similar (alleged to have originated in the engine compartment at or near the abs control module ) non-crash fire incidents in subject vehicles known to have received the recall remedy. Accordingly, a recall query (rq09-002) has been opened to assess the effectiveness of the recall remedy. |
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