Ford and Mazda Launch 160 000 Service Campaign.

Near 160 000 Ford, Mercury and Mazda off-roaders fell under the service campaign for the reason of inappropriately think inner compartment upholstery. The recall campaign will relate to Ford Escape, Mercury Mariner and Mazda Tribute 2005 models that were not equipped with side safety curtains and sun-roof. The inner upholstery needs to be made more think and elastic in the part of left A-pillar and joint between pillar and roof protecting driver’ head when crash.

Deficient head protection of Ford, Mazda and Mercury drivers was revealed after NHTSA crash test of Ford Escape. But as Ford Motor Co. officials stated inner company crash tests of the model had been held many times and always resulted positively and up to the safety standards. As James Vondale, the Ford car safety director, NHTSA crash tests include estimating driver’s head crash to various surfaces and materials so that a whole multitude of various variables appear.

Nevertheless Ford and Mazda preferred to launch a service campaign as not to fall into seamless and senseless argues with NHTSA.