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| NHTSA Complaint Number: 006077004 | Incident Date: Aug, 17 2006 |
| Consumer's City: LOCKHART | Consumer's State: TX |
| Vehicle Transmission Type: AUTO | Manufacturers Name: Ford Motor Company |
| Model Name: TOWN CAR | Model Year: 2001 |
| Vehicle Involved in a Crash: No | Component's Description: Air bags:side/window |
| Vehicle Involved in a Fire: No | Persons Injured: 0 |
| Vehicle's VIN#: | Date added to File: May, 23 2021 |
| Date Complaint Received: Aug, 27 2006 | Complaint Type: IVOQ |
| Incident Reported To Police: No | Purchase Date: Dec, 09 2003 |
| Was Original Owner: No | Anti-lock Brakes: Yes |
| Number of Cylinders: 8 | Date of Manufacturer: - |
| Was Vehicle Towed: - | Description of the Complaints: Comments: our 2001 lincoln town car's drivers side curtain air bag deployed unintended on august 18th, at 7:00 pm while we were driving on a highway. there was no accident, no primary or secondary impact, no debris on the road, no potholes, no logs, rocks, trees, cows, or other debris frequently attributed to an unintended deployment. the ford dealership service manager states that there is an impact mark under the body directly under the air-bag sensor but we were driving on a paved roadway and nothing on the road, and nothing around to "run over". if anything had been run over previously, the airbag should have deployed then, and not waited for an undetermined period of time. the reaction to the deployment had us in the right side shoulder/drainage ditch as we assumed we had been hit by another automobile (none in sight). a quick external examination of the auto showed no impact. we had the car in the dealership recently to have an airbag wiring harness replacement to stop a blinking airbag light, this repair billed to our extended warranty company (?). the current repairs are almost $900.00, which we are having to pay ourselves, for something which should be a ford safety issue. the car should be returned to us early this week (august 28-sept-1). we have no issue about the warranty as the car has 76,000 miles, but this is a safety related situation that could have potentially caused a serious accident had there been another vehicle along side us at the time of the deployment. we feel that lincoln/ford should cover the cost of repairing the deployed air-bag. my cell number is 512-669-2244. franz hofmann. *nm |
