About 370,000 Ford Motor company cars are being recalled due to the possibility of loss of steering.
The cars include model year 2005 to 2011 Ford Crown Victoria, Mercury Grand Marquis and Lincoln Town Car sedans, according to CNBC News.
“The 355,000 vehicles in the U.S. recall are in Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin and West Virginia,” says CNBC.
The remainder are cars sold in Canada.
I own a 2004 Ford F150 pickup truck and just this past July(of 2013) my truck had the same issues with the steering shaft being rust corodided. I brought it to a mechanic and he thought it was one thing which turned into a few other possiblities, so I had him replace the power steering pump, fluid line w/ internal check valve and the rack and pinion, only to find out that after some internet browsing of my own, that other Ford f150 owners were having the same issues. I brought the truck to the Watertown Ct. Ford dealership and they replaced the the steering shaft. I spent around $1,200.00 to fix these so called problems. Obviously there are other makes and models that Ford has built in the early 2000 to mid 2000years that are going unnoticed with the same problems. Someone should look deeper into this and maybe help some Ford vehicle owners get re-embersed for the troubles.