Ford's answers to the NHTSA 6.7 Investigation

NinerBikes wrote:

NewsW wrote:
Time for an update here.

Can everyone do a scan of other forums and see if there are new reported cases of failures?

Ford, GM are primary interest, VW next.

Did everything die down?

Which could indicate something changed.

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=299854

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=299854&page=6

Bosch pumps are not dying down on VW's, the 2011's are coming on with failures just now, look at page 6 listings. They are just now getting enough mileage to show failures.

Here is a list of failures by state, by no means comprehensive, just folks with failures that happened to find TDIclub on line and then decide to be included in Dwiesel's study. Many have not requested inclusion, for fear of retribution by VW while their pump was dead, in shop, waiting for warranty coverage.

http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=293629

In my observation, it is irrelevant what badge or motor block this pump is hung on... it fails, with alarming regularity, and it only becomes an issue and really sucks when it happens to you. Sure, the odds may be low it happens to you, but if it does, I don't care how special it makes you feel, you still have a down vehicle and major inconvenience while all the parts get assembled to perform major surgery and do the fix on your vehicle.

Wiping out a 10 to $15,000 whole fuel system is a design defect. A HPFP needs to be designed that takes into account failure of the pump not wiping out the whole fuel system, from stem to stern... way, way, waaaaaay too much collateral damage. Damage should be limited to the pump being the only failure and the only item in need of replacing, and it should be accounted for in the basic design.