Mercury Tracer, Escort. Published by Transport Canada as 1993078 on 1 June 1993. System: Steering.
What the notice says On vehicles with manual transmission, the roll pins securing the ignition lock cylinder in the steering column housing may not remain in place. this could cause the ignition lock cylinder to disengage from the steering column housing which could result in steering column lock-up and loss of steering control. …
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
- 1993078
- Recall date
- 1 June 1993
- Make
- Mercury, Ford
- Models
- Tracer, Escort
- Model years
- 1991
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Steering
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 8,789
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
ON VEHICLES WITH MANUAL TRANSMISSION, THE ROLL PINS SECURING THE IGNITION LOCK CYLINDER IN THE STEERING COLUMN HOUSING MAY NOT REMAIN IN PLACE. THIS COULD CAUSE THE IGNITION LOCK CYLINDER TO DISENGAGE FROM THE STEERING COLUMN HOUSING WHICH COULD RESULT IN STEERING COLUMN LOCK-UP AND LOSS OF STEERING CONTROL. CORRECTION: VEHICLES WILL BE INSPECTED AND IF ROLL PINS ARE PRESENT AND FULLY INSERTED, A PLASTIC SNAP-ON SLEEVE WILL BE INSTALLED TO PREVENT THE PINS FROM COMING OUT. IF ONE OR BOTH OR THE ROLL PINS ARE MISSING OR NOT FULLY INSERTED, THE IGNITION LOCK HOUSING ASSEMBLY WILL BE REPLACED (ALONG WITH THE DOOR LOCKS AND THE LIFTGATE/DECK-LID LOCKS SO THAT KEY COMPATIBILITY IS MAINTAINED).
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 1993078.
Mercury elsewhere in this register
Mercury is named on 243 notices in the copy of Transport Canada’s register held here, of which these are the nearest to this one in time.
- 1993103 · 21 July 1993 · Tempo, Topaz · Emissions
- 1992166 · 30 December 1992 · Sable, Taurus, Continental · Structure
- 1992157 · 4 December 1992 · Villager · Fuel System
- 1994041 · 28 February 1994 · Cougar, Thunderbird · Emissions
- 1992120 · 29 September 1992 · Taurus, Sable, Explorer · Seats And Restraints
- 1992121 · 29 September 1992 · Escort, Tracer · Fuel System
- 1992123 · 29 September 1992 · Crown Victoria, Taurus, Topaz · Seats And Restraints
- 1992117 · 28 September 1992 · Mustang, Capri · Seats And Restraints
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.
- 1993101 · 20 July 1993 · RM, DMM · Steering
- 1993107 · 3 August 1993 · WX, Acl · Steering
- 1993038 · 23 March 1993 · 4900 6x6, 4800 4x4 · Steering
- 1993035 · 16 March 1993 · Truck · Steering
- 1993121 · 1 September 1993 · FLD120, FLD112 · Steering
- 1993011 · 22 January 1993 · Testarossa · Steering
Reading this against the source
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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 Prime Time Tracer, 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 Mercury: 243 in the register, and 177 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1993.
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