Ford Expedition, Navigator, F-550, F-750, F-650, Focus. Published by Transport Canada as 2001204 on 13 August 2001. System: Other.
What the notice says Certain passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, and light and medium duty pickup trucks. A switch located in the plastic cover of the wiper motor gear case could malfunction and overheat, potentially resulting in loss of intermittent wiper function, loss of wiper park function, complete loss of wiper function, smoke …
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.
Ford EXPEDITION in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford EXPEDITION is named on 40 American notices, 1 European and 8 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
The American register
The European register
The Israeli register
Nothing here says any of these is this notice in another country. A model recalled in one country is often recalled in another, in different words and at a different time, and the authorities do not cross-reference each other. Reading them together is the reason this site holds more than one register.
What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2001204
- Recall date
- 13 August 2001
- Make
- Ford, Lincoln
- Models
- Expedition, Navigator, F-550, F-750, F-650, Focus, Excursion, F-350, F-250, Town Car, Taurus, Continental, F-150
- Model years
- 2000 to 2001
- Vehicle class
- Light Truck & Van
- System
- Other
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 83,005
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, and light and medium duty pickup trucks. A switch located in the plastic cover of the wiper motor gear case could malfunction and overheat, potentially resulting in loss of intermittent wiper function, loss of wiper park function, complete loss of wiper function, smoke or, potentially, ignition of the plastic cover material. Switch malfunction is most likely to occur when the intermittent setting of the wipers is being used, or when snow or ice obstructs the blades from returning to the "parked" position at the bottom of the windshield. Loss of visibility while driving increases the risk of a crash. Correction: Dealers will inspect the date code on the wiper motor. Motors built with the suspect time frame will have the wiper motor gear case cover replaced.
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 2001204.
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.
- 2001205 · 7 August 2001 · Contour, Mystique · Other
- 2001213 · 22 August 2001 · Windstar · Electrical
- 2001214 · 22 August 2001 · Windstar · Electrical
- 2001120 · 8 June 2001 · Windstar · Suspension
- 2001125 · 28 May 2001 · Explorer · Other
- 2001131 · 16 May 2001 · F-750, F-650 · Suspension
- 2001132 · 16 May 2001 · Taurus · Seats And Restraints
- 2001041 · 21 February 2001 · F-550, F-450 · Suspension
The same system: Other
398 notices in this register name Other. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2001205 · 7 August 2001 · Contour, Mystique · Other
- 2001219 · 29 August 2001 · Sentra · Other
- 2001220 · 29 August 2001 · Targa, Bullet, Targa TTLX · Other
- 2001300 · 15 November 2001 · Eiger 400 (lt-A400f) · Other
- 2002020 · 7 February 2002 · WXLL, WXR, WX · Other
- 2002023 · 11 February 2002 · Discovery · Other
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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 Ford Expedition, 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 301 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2001.
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