{
  "owners": null,
  "title": "Canadian recall 1981048 (Mercury and 1 more), 1981",
  "url": "https://carsmultiverse.com/canada/recall-1981048/",
  "summary": "Transport Canada recall 1981048, MERCURY, FORD LYNX, ESCORT, 1981-04-10. VEHICLES WITH AUTOMATIC SPEED CONTROL. FUEL MAY MIGRATE THROUGH THE SPEED CONTROL.",
  "excerpt": "Mercury Lynx, Escort. Published by Transport Canada as 1981048 on 10 April 1981. System: Not Entered. What the notice says Vehicles with automatic speed control. fuel may migrate through the speed control vacuum lines into the speed control servo assembly this could cause the vacuum o-ring to shrink allowing a vacuum leak. this leak may result in unintended activation of the speed control and could cause gradual acceleration of the … Is your vehicle included? Check with your VIN at Transport Canada , or ask a dealer. This page is an independent copy of the notice, kept so you can see what changed after it was published. It is not the authority, and the authority’s own text is the one to act on. VEHICLES WITH AUTOMATIC SPEED CONTROL. FUEL MAY MIGRATE THROUGH THE SPEED CONTROL VACUUM LINES INTO THE SPEED CONTROL SERVO ASSEMBLY THIS COULD CAUSE THE VACUUM O-RING TO SHRINK ALLOWING A VACUUM LEAK. THIS LEAK MAY RESULT IN UNINTENDED ACTIVATION OF THE SPEED CONTROL AND COULD CAUSE GRADUAL ACCELERATION OF THE VEHICLE. Transport Canada recorded this notice in capitals, as its system did for many years. It is reproduced here exactly as published. The wording above is the department's own, as it stood in the monthly file this site last read. Vehicle counts are the sum of the counts published for each make and model the recall covers. To act on a recall, use the official notice: Transport Canada recall 1981048 . The Canadian register on this site Mercury is named on 243 notices in the co",
  "register": {
    "authority": "Transport Canada",
    "country": "Canada",
    "index": "https://carsmultiverse.com/canada/"
  },
  "datePublished": "2026-09-05T14:24:37+00:00",
  "dateModified": "2026-09-05T14:24:37+00:00",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "citation": "CarsMultiverse, \"Canadian recall 1981048 (Mercury and 1 more), 1981\", https://carsmultiverse.com/canada/recall-1981048/, licensed CC BY 4.0.",
  "note": "CarsMultiverse is an independent record, not a safety authority. To act on a recall, use the official register."
}