Ford Focus, Fusion, C-Max. Published by Transport Canada as 2018443 on 23 August 2018. System: Electrical.
What the notice says Certain plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles were supplied with a 120V convenience charge cord that may be susceptible to overheating if there is a poor connection at the electrical outlet. This could result in increased cord temperatures, melting, and an increased risk of fire causing injury and/or damage to …
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Ford FOCUS in the other registers
This site holds seven national and European registers. Ford FOCUS is named on 19 American notices, 56 British, 29 European and 16 Israeli. Those are separate campaigns, filed with separate authorities on their own schedules.
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What Transport Canada published
- Recall number
- 2018443
- Recall date
- 23 August 2018
- Make
- Ford
- Models
- Focus, Fusion, C-Max
- Model years
- 2012 to 2015
- Vehicle class
- Car
- System
- Electrical
- Raised as
- Safety MFR
- Vehicles affected
- 1,324
- Register
- Canada — Transport Canada, Vehicle Recalls Database
Certain plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles were supplied with a 120V convenience charge cord that may be susceptible to overheating if there is a poor connection at the electrical outlet. This could result in increased cord temperatures, melting, and an increased risk of fire causing injury and/or damage to property. Correction: Dealers will replace the factory supplied 120V convenience cord with the latest version of the cord that includes thermal protection.
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 2018443.
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.
- 2018555 · 9 October 2018 · GT · Structure
- 2018577 · 23 October 2018 · Focus · Fuel System
- 2018332 · 15 June 2018 · Edge · Powertrain
- 2018310 · 13 June 2018 · F-150, Expedition, Navigator · Fuel System
- 2018311 · 13 June 2018 · F-750, F-650 · Brakes
- 2018629 · 15 November 2018 · Expedition, Navigator · Structure
- 2018216 · 27 April 2018 · Transit · Electrical
- 2018718 · 20 December 2018 · F-150, F-450 Super Duty, F-350 Super Duty · Electrical
The same system: Electrical
686 notices in this register name Electrical. A defect that keeps returning under one heading is worth reading as a group rather than one notice at a time.
- 2018426 · 15 August 2018 · Freedom Express · Electrical
- 2018501 · 13 September 2018 · Crf250l · Electrical
- 2018327 · 15 June 2018 · S Class · Electrical
- 2018329 · 15 June 2018 · Ventana Class A Motorhome, Dutch Star Class A Motorhome, Essex Class A Motorhome · Electrical
- 2018616 · 7 November 2018 · Vision School Bus · Electrical
- 2018617 · 7 November 2018 · Vision Non-School Bus · Electrical
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This notice names one vehicle among several registers that have written about it. Every notice this site holds for the Ford Fusion, 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 704 Canadian vehicle recalls filed in 2018.
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