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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and enter "EA11003"
At the bottom of the page is a yellow orangish button labeled "Document Search" Press it and it should get you here:
Plenty of Bosch HPFP reading by car badge and failure rates by brand.
Since Volkwagen was the first to claim "Clean Diesel" with this Bosch common rail CP4 HPFP, they have the most "history" with Bosch on the trials and tribulations. VW searched for "gas in fuel", for "bad fuel" for "water" by taking samples of fuel from the fuel tanks of failed Bosch HPFP's and try as they might, telling the public with dead vehicles out there needing complete new fuel systems, they couldn't find what Bosch was pointing the finger at for fuel problems.
Here is the link of correspondence between Bosch and Volkswagen, plenty of it is redacted, yet very easy to read between the lines.
Volkswagen / Bosch correspondence.
and enter "EA11003"
At the bottom of the page is a yellow orangish button labeled "Document Search" Press it and it should get you here:
Plenty of Bosch HPFP reading by car badge and failure rates by brand.
Since Volkwagen was the first to claim "Clean Diesel" with this Bosch common rail CP4 HPFP, they have the most "history" with Bosch on the trials and tribulations. VW searched for "gas in fuel", for "bad fuel" for "water" by taking samples of fuel from the fuel tanks of failed Bosch HPFP's and try as they might, telling the public with dead vehicles out there needing complete new fuel systems, they couldn't find what Bosch was pointing the finger at for fuel problems.
Here is the link of correspondence between Bosch and Volkswagen, plenty of it is redacted, yet very easy to read between the lines.
Volkswagen / Bosch correspondence.
