Ford Contour, Mystique. Published by Transport Canada as 1999164 on 16 September 1999. System: Seats And Restraints.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the air bag sensor wiring pigtail insulation may become brittle and crack over time due to water accumulation in the protective convolute combined with high under hood temperatures and routing of the pigtail near the radiator. This could result in the air bag warning light illuminating and …
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 1999164
- Recall date
- 16 September 1999
- Make
- Ford, Mercury
- Models
- Contour, Mystique
- Model years
- 1998
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Seats And Restraints
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 33,029
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the air bag sensor wiring pigtail insulation may become brittle and crack over time due to water accumulation in the protective convolute combined with high under hood temperatures and routing of the pigtail near the radiator. This could result in the air bag warning light illuminating and disabling of the air bag. Correction: Air bag sensors with revised wiring insulation will be installed. Also, vehicles which have the air bag warning light illuminated will have a new air bag diagnostic monitor installed if required.
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 1999164.
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.
- 1999139 · 27 July 1999 · Mystique, Contour, Cougar · Engine
- 1999134 · 26 July 1999 · Probe · Emissions
- 1999215 · 15 November 1999 · F-250, F-350 Super Duty · Fuel System
- 1999224 · 30 November 1999 · Explorer · Structure
- 1999133 · 30 June 1999 · Explorer · Structure
- 1999126 · 23 June 1999 · Windstar · Brakes
- 1999231 · 16 December 1999 · Focus · Engine
- 1999102 · 26 May 1999 · Explorer · Brakes
The same system: Seats And Restraints
900 notices in this register name Seats And Restraints. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 1999163 · 16 September 1999 · C70, S70, V70 · Seats And Restraints
- 1999161 · 31 August 1999 · Park Avenue, Aurora · Seats And Restraints
- 1999209 · 15 November 1999 · Grand Prix · Seats And Restraints
- 1999210 · 15 November 1999 · SC, SW, SL · Seats And Restraints
- 1999131 · 28 June 1999 · Silver Seraph, Arnage · Seats And Restraints
- 1999232 · 16 December 1999 · ML Class · Seats And Restraints
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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 240 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 1999.
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