Originally Posted By: supton
Wonder how they found out about the issue. I mean, no accidents or injuries, so... how did they find out about the issue?
[I'm in no way bashing, I'm curious if they are periodically tearing down vehicles and doing quality checks, or if enough techs in the pits were noting gas leaks when these vehicles were being serviced and that those notes are examined at a higher level, etc.]
I'm guessing there were warranty claims for incidents that didn't result in an accident or injury. Like you said, dealers could have seen this during routine service.
Tear-downs and quality checks are a possibility as well. Maybe an engineer noticed something seemed off with the design and brought up the possibility that there could be a design issue.
Lots of possibilities here, just goad to see Ford did the responsible thing and issued a recall rather than ignoring it.