Word: reared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...strangest recall is the one that Ford announced last week involving 436,000 1972 Torinos and Montegos. In 16 cases the rear axles and wheels actually came off these new cars. Ford will bring each car back twice-the first time to install a retainer plate on the rear axle to hold it in place; the second time to replace the whole axle with a heavier...
Ford was forced into this odd procedure by a budding driver rebellion against recalls that look to critics like mere patch-up jobs. Two weeks ago, Ford executives decided only to install an inexpensive retainer plate on a rear hub of each car. The plate is designed to increase the screeching noise that occurs when an axle starts to come loose, so that the driver cannot help noticing it, and to hold the axle in place for at least 100 miles, so that the driver has time to reach a garage. In doing no more than that, the company would...
...industry's test-driving procedures also seem inadequate. Ford men now suspect that several axle failures resulted from cars being driven in the Northeast over roads that had been sprinkled with salt to melt ice and snow. The salt, they think, got into a bearing that holds the rear axle together and caused it to deteriorate. Somehow that possibility was not considered in all the 19 million miles of test driving that Ford puts its new cars through each year. Automen insist that they cannot duplicate in road tests every condition that may come up in actual driving; that...
...South Viet Nam's President Nguyen Van Thieu ordered the city held "at all costs" and sent a crack armored column of 20,000 men northward to relieve it. Fearful that the column might be trapped and cut off from the rear, the area commander, General Nguyen Van Minh, halted the majority of his troops 15 miles from...
...outing. Last December, for example, Chevrolet whistled back 6.7 million automobiles to treat motor-mount problems. Last week it was Ford Motor Co.'s turn. Ford announced that it was recalling 423,000 '72 Torinos and Montegos-the entire production of those two lines-to correct a rear axle defect. Unusual wearing of the bearings in the rear axle assembly, Ford explained, could cause the axle to separate or disengage from the wheel, or to jam, bringing the car to an abrupt halt. Thus far, 16 such failures have occurred, causing one injury. Ford, still uncertain about...