Ford Motor Company (NYSE: F) is recalling ~101,944 model year 2016-2019 Taurus cars. The driver and front passenger B-Pillar door trim may detach while driving. Ford doesn’t say how it will fix the problem. The root cause of the recall remained a part of the assembly process until the end of Taurus production at the Chicago Assembly plant on 1 March 2019. During the first half of 2025, Ford Motor booked a $1.3 billion loss from repairs of vehicles under warranty, cancellation of plans to build an electric sport utility vehicle and other one-time costs. Ford is operating under a consent order from NHTSA because of its handing of recalls.
“Applique detachment may result from incomplete adhesion of the part to door sheet-metal during installation at the vehicle assembly plant on vehicles built after a process change that stopped the use of hand rollers that aided operators in ensuring complete adhesion of the part,” Ford said on the mandatory safety defect recall filing made public by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration this morning. [If the process isn’t broken, why change it? – AutoCrat] Continue reading
CARB Submits “Scathing Critique” of EPA
The California Air Resources Board (CARB) today – under a headline of “CARB submits scathing critique of U.S. EPA’s illegal effort to overturn the endangerment finding. Public comments accuse U.S. EPA of putting millions of lives at risk by ‘forsaking its statutory mission’ – submitted comments opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) illegal push to end federal responsibility for greenhouse gas emissions by overturning its 2009 endangerment finding.” The comments also note that EPA’s proposal ignores more than 15 years of its own research and regulations. This was previously covered by CARB here: AutoInformed.com on CARB Files Comments on DOE Climate Misinformation.*
“Let’s just say the quiet part out loud: EPA’s proposal is a stunningly sloppy and amateurish effort to sow doubt where there is no doubt,” said CARB Chair Liane Randolph. “And EPA cannot simply repeal its own standards based on a political whim. The agency owes the American people straight, honest answers why it is proposing to carelessly risk their health, lives and property.” Continue reading →