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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hawkeye-08 wrote:
I am starting to think that these pumps are generally right at the threshold, some are below the threshold and "don't last", but most are above the threshold and will survive the warranty period and beyond.. I am in the computer industry and we call it infant mortality rate (for example, there are a certain percentage of disks that will fail in the first several months of operation). This does not mean the disks are all bad, just that some failed... and as long as the percentages stay within the acceptable limits, life is good.
In the computer business, it is 90 days or 5+ years.
However, what bothers me is this is a failure that is well past the infant mortality period, where a manufacturing defect should have been caught.
Go to the TDI forum, and they are replacing pumps every 30,000 miles in the worse cases.
Something tells me it is something that sailed right past durability testing, QC for manufacturing, and all the normal through German Bosch checks.
Something they did not foresee.
That is what makes it interesting for me.
