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- Glad to see a manufacturer step up and take care of things for their customers. I hope all who are effected get their F150 or Super Duty fixed soon.
- The OP has a Fiat pickup and they have recalled 1.8 million pickups because they fall out of park. He thinks a door lock that could freeze is a big deal?
K Charles wrote:
The OP has a Fiat pickup and they have recalled 1.8 million pickups because they fall out of park. He thinks a door lock that could freeze is a big deal?
Actually I have 8 Fiats and around 15 or so Fords not counting the few Toyotas and other various makes and models that I have to worry about.
Also if you reread the Ram recall it doesn't say anything about it falling out of park it just says that it can be pulled out of park without applying the brake pedal. That is a feature that had to be added because of lack of parenting letting kids plat around in the vehicle. I'm one of those parents because my daughter did it when she was 4.
Have a great day. ;)transamz9 wrote:
K Charles wrote:
The OP has a Fiat pickup and they have recalled 1.8 million pickups because they fall out of park. He thinks a door lock that could freeze is a big deal?
Actually I have 8 Fiats and around 15 or so Fords not counting the few Toyotas and other various makes and models that I have to worry about.
Also if you reread the Ram recall it doesn't say anything about it falling out of park it just says that it can be pulled out of park without applying the brake pedal. That is a feature that had to be added because of lack of parenting letting kids plat around in the vehicle. I'm one of those parents because my daughter did it when she was 4.
Have a great day. ;)
I don't know how old you are but the shift interlock has been around for a long time. This is an outright failure of the system in a modern vehicle. I can only think of one vehicle off the top of my head that I owned that didn't have this feature and I believe that vehicle had a faulty switch. Maybe you didn't mean it to sound like this was a recent addition but that is the way it came off.- Ram you screwed up and now you want to fix it. Thank you. Ford you screwed up and now you want to fix it. Thank you.
mich800 wrote:
transamz9 wrote:
K Charles wrote:
The OP has a Fiat pickup and they have recalled 1.8 million pickups because they fall out of park. He thinks a door lock that could freeze is a big deal?
Actually I have 8 Fiats and around 15 or so Fords not counting the few Toyotas and other various makes and models that I have to worry about.
Also if you reread the Ram recall it doesn't say anything about it falling out of park it just says that it can be pulled out of park without applying the brake pedal. That is a feature that had to be added because of lack of parenting letting kids plat around in the vehicle. I'm one of those parents because my daughter did it when she was 4.
Have a great day. ;)
I don't know how old you are but the shift interlock has been around for a long time. This is an outright failure of the system in a modern vehicle. I can only think of one vehicle off the top of my head that I owned that didn't have this feature and I believe that vehicle had a faulty switch. Maybe you didn't mean it to sound like this was a recent addition but that is the way it came off.
No, I didn't mean it was a recent addition I just mean that now that people know it shouldn't be a life and death thing like the earlier poster made it out to be. The door handle IMO could be a bigger problem if someone couldn't get out in an emergency.
The shift lock has been around for a lot of years and we are trained to it now to the point that if the recall hadn't came out then most of us would not have known there was a problem until a child accidentally pulled it out of gear.K Charles wrote:
Went right for jugular! Fiat? LOL
The OP has a Fiat pickup and they have recalled 1.8 million pickups because they fall out of park. He thinks a door lock that could freeze is a big deal?TurnThePage wrote:
K Charles wrote:
Went right for jugular! Fiat? LOL
The OP has a Fiat pickup and they have recalled 1.8 million pickups because they fall out of park. He thinks a door lock that could freeze is a big deal?
Do what ya gotta do :W- Well, I can tell you that the F-150 door latch issue is a real safety issue. My current work truck is one of the effected ones. It was already off warranty when it started and could not be figured out at the dealer (reproduce the symptom). Nothing like having the drivers door open on it’s own while driving down the road to get your attention. Other times it simply wouldn’t latch at all. And now the rear suicide door on drivers side won’t latch properly at times. I just recently got the recall notice, and will be notified again when replacement parts are available. I’m hoping soon.
msjdbman wrote:
Well, I can tell you that the F-150 door latch issue is a real safety issue. My current work truck is one of the effected ones. It was already off warranty when it started and could not be figured out at the dealer (reproduce the symptom). Nothing like having the drivers door open on it’s own while driving down the road to get your attention. Other times it simply wouldn’t latch at all. And now the rear suicide door on drivers side won’t latch properly at times. I just recently got the recall notice, and will be notified again when replacement parts are available. I’m hoping soon.
Not a truck, but unintended door opening for Ford isn't new. Read Lee Iacoca's autobiography when he wrote of his early years at Ford showing a new model to the media at a car show.The passenger doors were tied together by a rope because they would pop open if the car was driven over rough pavement. That was in the mid 1950's. My late father had a '65 Fairlane (company issued vehicle) that had the same problem, and a trunk that converted to a swimming pool when it rained.
One would think by now ANY manufacturer would have the basics figured out............
