Ford Galaxie 500, Monterey, Marquis, Custom 500, Ltd, Continental. Published by Transport Canada as 1979207 on 14 December 1979. System: Steering.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the steering idler arm bushing could develop a stiffening condition which could result in the idler arm bracket separating from the vehicle frame. This condition would cause hard or stiff steering, steering noise or poor steering return.
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.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1979207
- Recall date
- 14 December 1979
- Make
- Ford, Mercury, Lincoln
- Models
- Galaxie 500, Monterey, Marquis, Custom 500, Ltd, Continental
- Model years
- 1969 to 1973
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 384,244
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the steering idler arm bushing could develop a stiffening condition which could result in the idler arm bracket separating from the vehicle frame. This condition would cause hard or stiff steering, steering noise or poor steering return.
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 1979207.
Ford elsewhere in this register
Ford is named on 818 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1979202 · 4 December 1979 · L Series · Suspension
- 1979135 · 7 August 1979 · Club Wagon, F-150, F-100 · Not Entered
- 1979122 · 18 July 1979 · Econoline · Not Entered
- 1979107 · 15 June 1979 · Club Wagon, Econoline, E150 · Not Entered
- 1979108 · 15 June 1979 · E350, Econoline, Club Wagon · Not Entered
- 1979106 · 14 June 1979 · F-350 · Not Entered
- 1979040 · 8 March 1979 · L Series · Not Entered
- 1979036 · 22 February 1979 · F-800, F-700 · Not Entered
The same system: Steering
582 notices in this register name Steering. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1979013 · 23 January 1979 · S1700, S1853, S1823 · Steering
- 1978103 · 3 October 1978 · Meteor, Ltd, Marquis · Steering
- 1981116 · 8 December 1981 · Conventional · Steering
- 1982027 · 5 March 1982 · S, Conventional, DC · Steering
- 1982036 · 19 April 1982 · 230, 280, 300 · Steering
- 1976135 · 16 December 1976 · 200 Series · Steering
Reading this against the source
This page is what Transport Canada published in the Vehicle Recalls Database, kept as it was read. The authority publishes only its current wording; if a notice is rewritten, the earlier version disappears there and is kept here. The whole register is at /canada, and how the reading is done is set out in the method.
What the words on this notice mean — the system it is filed under, and what the filing type says about who found the fault.
This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Lincoln Continental, in all seven, is kept on that vehicle's own page, with the newest in each.
This register keeps an index of its own for every maker and every year it holds: Canadian recalls on a Ford: 1,346 in the register, and 209 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1979.
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