Ford Explorer. Published by Transport Canada as 2000308 on 29 December 2000. System: Engine.
What the notice says On certain vehicles, the original throttle bodies installed allowed a gap between the plate and bore to be built with reduced clearances or too narrow. This reduced clearance allowed the thin film of engine deposits normally present in the throttle body to contact or bridge the gap. If the engine deposits bridged the …
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Ford EXPLORER in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford EXPLORER is named on 91 American notices, 15 British, 13 European and 71 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2000308
- Recall date
- 29 December 2000
- Make
- Ford
- Models
- Explorer
- Model years
- 1997 to 1998
- Vehicle class
- SUV
- System
- Engine
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 9,657
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
On certain vehicles, the original throttle bodies installed allowed a gap between the plate and bore to be built with reduced clearances or too narrow. This reduced clearance allowed the thin film of engine deposits normally present in the throttle body to contact or bridge the gap. If the engine deposits bridged the gap between the throttle plate and bore and hardened, on the initial application of the accelerator pedal after the engine has cooled, the operator would need to apply additional force to the accelerator pedal to break the bridge. This could result in the throttle body sticking closed. Correction: Original throttle bodies will be replaced on affected vehicles.
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 2000308.
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.
- 2000301 · 29 December 2000 · Econoline · Seats And Restraints
- 2000302 · 29 December 2000 · Focus · Electrical
- 2000304 · 29 December 2000 · Windstar, Town Car, Grand Marquis · Seats And Restraints
- 2000306 · 29 December 2000 · Aerostar · Engine
- 2000307 · 29 December 2000 · F-350, F-250, F-150 · Fuel System
- 2000309 · 29 December 2000 · Aeromax, Louisville · Brakes
- 2000310 · 29 December 2000 · Super Duty, F-750, F-650 · Steering
- 2000305 · 20 December 2000 · Focus · Seats And Restraints
The same system: Engine
287 notices in this register name Engine. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2000306 · 29 December 2000 · Aerostar · Engine
- 2000221 · 6 October 2000 · TC/2000 Non-School Bus, TC/2000 School Bus, All American School Bus · Engine
- 2000218 · 5 October 2000 · K1200rs · Engine
- 2000219 · 5 October 2000 · K1200rs · Engine
- 2000205 · 26 September 2000 · XC Chassis · Engine
- 2000109 · 28 April 2000 · Cavalier, Sunfire · Engine
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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 311 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2000.
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