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NHTSA Complaint Number: 005022922 | Incident Date: May, 30 2005 |
Consumer's City: PENSACOLA | Consumer's State: FL |
Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Ford Motor Company |
Model Name: FORD | Model Year: 1998 |
Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Unknown or other |
Vehicle Involved in a Fire: Yes | Persons Injured: 0 |
Vehicle's VIN#: 1FMRU17L0WL | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
Date Complaint Received: Jun, 03 2005 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Sep, 03 2001 |
Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
Number of Cylinders: 6 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: My wife was teaching at the local jr. college here in pensacola florida. she parked the truck at approx. 6:45pm ,her classroom faces the parking lot. from the second floor some of her students could see something on fire in the parking lot, it's approx. 8:40pm by now. the car was seen by the groundskeepers and sercurity to have what appeared to be smoke and sparks of fire comming from the hood. they attempted to use fire extingushers but the flames and fire by this time was to hot.soon afterwards the fire dept. arrived. most of the fire was under the hood on the drivers side that engulfed the front driverside including the roof driver door and the tire completly melted away on the drivers side. we've spoken with ford motor company and we where asked very pointantly exactly what did we expect of ford motor company.we can't imagion a more ludacris question! we where told that the legal dept. at ford motor company would get back with us in 24-48hrs. we've exceeded 48hrs + now... |