Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation
There was a request for a link to Ford's answer's to the NHTSA investigation posted on a previous thread, since closed. Here is the link: Ford's NHTSA Answers to the 6.7 investigation This PDF i...
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Getting back to The Big Bang Theory, and this is for the NHTSA folks to chew on, and the Bosch Folks to sweat...
Somewhere, after the Popular Mechanics test owner of that 2009 Jetta that had a HPFP fail, and had repaired, is a Bill of Material for parts for the repair of the downed Jetta in Santa Monica, CA, at VW of Santa Monica... I would love to see that list.
I say that because if VW knew to change all the parts out for a pump failure then, tank, nozzles, 3 fuel pumps, rails, injectors, et al, while on loan, then Bosch and VW were well aware of the potential for complete fuel system failure with this pump, and the complete contamination of the whole fuel system. They should NEVER have brought it to the North American Market if they were aware of the problems and the risk and expense involved to fix it... No where in the previous history of diesels did a pump take out a whole complete fuel system with contamination from the pump itself, such that everything the fuel touched had to be replaced. That was unheard of. If VW and Bosch gave a BIM for a complete replacement... then that is admission of guilt, they Knew the risk of and the potential for failure, and they knew the list of replacement parts it was going to require... and they had to have done failure analysis to know what parts to put on the Bill of Material for a fix.
Somewhere, after the Popular Mechanics test owner of that 2009 Jetta that had a HPFP fail, and had repaired, is a Bill of Material for parts for the repair of the downed Jetta in Santa Monica, CA, at VW of Santa Monica... I would love to see that list.
I say that because if VW knew to change all the parts out for a pump failure then, tank, nozzles, 3 fuel pumps, rails, injectors, et al, while on loan, then Bosch and VW were well aware of the potential for complete fuel system failure with this pump, and the complete contamination of the whole fuel system. They should NEVER have brought it to the North American Market if they were aware of the problems and the risk and expense involved to fix it... No where in the previous history of diesels did a pump take out a whole complete fuel system with contamination from the pump itself, such that everything the fuel touched had to be replaced. That was unheard of. If VW and Bosch gave a BIM for a complete replacement... then that is admission of guilt, they Knew the risk of and the potential for failure, and they knew the list of replacement parts it was going to require... and they had to have done failure analysis to know what parts to put on the Bill of Material for a fix.
