500,000+ Ford Escape, Bronco Sport SUVs Recalled over Hearth Threat

• Ford has issued a recall of greater than half 1,000,000 Bronco Sport and Escape SUVs to repair a defective gasoline injector.
• The issue impacts the 2020 via 2023 Escape and 2021 via 2023 Bronco Sport automobiles which have the 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine.
• In its filings with the Nationwide Freeway Visitors Security Administration (NHTSA), Ford stated a gasoline injector might crack, growing the danger of an underhood hearth.

Ford will recall 333,342 Escape and 188,436 Bronco Sport SUVs from the 2020 via 2023 mannequin years over a danger of engine hearth. The recall is expounded to a gasoline injector that might crack, inflicting a possible gasoline or gasoline vapor leak that might result in an underhood hearth, Ford stated. In filings with NHTSA, Ford stated the motive force must be attentive to note any potential gasoline scent “each inside and outside the automobile” and, in case of a fireplace, might “discover smoke or flames” from the engine compartment or below the automobile.

The recall impacts automobiles with the bottom fashions’ 181-hp turbocharged 1.5-liter three-cylinder engine. No info was supplied to NHTSA as as to whether there have been incidents of fireside in clients’ automobiles.

Ford will set up up to date engine management software program to note and supply a message on the automobile’s instrument panel if there’s a drop in stress within the gasoline rail. Additionally as a part of the recall, Ford stated it is going to set up a drain tube to let any leaked gasoline drain from the cylinder head and keep away from the fireplace danger. Homeowners shall be notified of the recall in mid-December. Within the meantime, they will verify the NHTSA remembers web site for details about the recall and to see if their automobile is affected.