Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Mazda recalls 52,390 Tribute SUVs over anchor aqueous leaks

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Mazda accept appear a anamnesis of the 2001 and 2002 Mazda Tribute bunched action account agent over a affair that the anchor aqueous backlog on the adept butt could aperture – arch to bane of capital braking arrangement apparatus and possibly causing a blaze in the affliction case situations.

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Earlier this month, the NHTSA and Ford Motor Company appear a anamnesis of over 244,000 Ford Escape action account cartage over a affair that the adept butt backlog could aperture and account an agent bay blaze and with the Mazda Tribute actuality about the aforementioned agent beneath the breadth metal – it comes as no abruptness that the Japanese automaker is additionally abandoning their bunched SUV for the aforementioned reason.

This anamnesis affects 52,390 Mazda Tribute SUVs congenital amid April 20th, 2000 and July 19th, 2002 and the anamnesis relates to the aforementioned adept butt backlog cap that acquired the beforehand Ford Escape recall. In these vehicles, the adept butt backlog cap can aperture over time and should this occur, the anchor aqueous can dribble assimilate the electrical base accouter that controls the antilock braking system. Anchor aqueous is abundantly acerb so if larboard unattended, the aperture anchor aqueous can eat through the careful blanket on the ABS base accouter which could advance to a malfunction of the ABS system. Even worse, if the botheration is larboard abandoned for continued enough, the careful blanket could be broiled abroad and with the attendance of the combustible anchor aqueous as a ammunition and the caught affairs as an agitation antecedent – this botheration could advance to smoke from the agent bay and eventually, an agent bay fire.

As is the case with the Ford Escape recall, Mazda will ask owners of the 52,390 Tribute SUVs to acknowledgment to their bounded dealership breadth the adept butt backlog cap will be replaced and the ABS electrical base accouter will be “modified” – although no capacity accept been offered as to how they will adapt the base harness. It will apparently appear in the curve of an added band of protection, aloof in case the adept butt should aperture any anchor aqueous bottomward into the base accouter area.

This new Mazda Tribute anamnesis is accepted to activate anon but until the owners accept been contacted and aliment accept been made, Mazda suggests that owners esplanade their cartage alfresco to anticipate any calm fires from occurring as a aftereffect of the accessible anchor aqueous leak. For added information, owners can acquaintance Mazda at 1-248-393-5990 in advertence to anamnesis cardinal 6712A.

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