recalls on AU1's

[whiskers]

Just wondering if anyone knows how many recalls and for what there have been on the AU series 1, I have had my car since new and have only had one recall notice sent to me.
Why I'm asking this is that I read somewhere in the forums here that there was a recall to do with the steering rack and it seems that was a while ago. any info would be good Jsmilie:

[bomber]

The only recall I know ofscince ive had my AU 1 is for a bolt that came loose on the steering rack i beleive it was they just tack welded it in. that was about 2 years ago now

[302XLS]

yeah, there was a recall for the steering rack, i got the recall 2 years after i had to dish out $1800 to fix the problem and ford has given me the run around about getting re-embursed. the steering rack came off of the subframe and completely lost all steering capabilities, i was lucky that i was only doing 5 km/h at the time. I'd suggest that you get it checked out asap, if this happens at any sort of reasonable speed you be f*^#%*.

[james22]

Isn't there a website dedicated to this sort of stuff? I'm sure all the info is on there

[Sledgehammer]

Yep steering rack's the only one for memory. Must get around to taking my car in for that some day.....

[james22]

Found it...

http://www.recalls.gov.au/view_recal...?recall_type=5

And this other link is for all falcon recalls made

http://www.recalls.gov.au/search_rec...Submit2=Submit

[whiskers]

Originally Posted by james22

Found it...

http://www.recalls.gov.au/view_recal...?recall_type=5

And this other link is for all falcon recalls made

http://www.recalls.gov.au/search_rec...Submit2=Submit

just tried the links that you gave and they both timed out, damm

[whiskers]

just found this if anyone is interested on the above web
site. although only one of these are for my model/year/month there are other ones there

http://www.recalls.gov.au/view_recal..._ID_Auto=12196
http://www.recalls.gov.au/view_recal..._ID_Auto=12079
http://www.recalls.gov.au/view_recal..._ID_Auto=12080
http://www.recalls.gov.au/view_recal..._ID_Auto=12062

[Mechan1k]

This one is interesting - never heard about this one before:

Ford Au Falcon & Fairlane Vehicles

Date: 16/04/1999

Supplier Name: Ford Motor Company Of Australia Limited

Dealer Contacted : No

Product Make: Ford

Product Model: Falcon and Fairlane

Target Number: [no data entered]

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Product Info: Campaign Srcc176. Built From March 19, 1999 To March 22, 1999 Inclusive.

Defect Details: The Bolts Securing The Upper Suspension Arm To Upper Arm Bushes May Be Affected By Hydrogen Embrittlement Resulting In Suspension Noise And In Extreme Cases, Upper Arms May Separate From The Bushes.

[mattp]

Mine's had three recalls according to the stickers inside the door, PRGC161A (15/7/99), SRCC183 (15/7/99) and SRCC300 (09/07/04).
I found out from the links that SRCC300 was for the steering rack mounting stud, SRCC183 was for incorrectly torqued front spindle upper ball joints, but I can't find anywhere what the PRGC161A recall was for. It was done at the same time as the upper ball joints, I'm curious to find out what it was for. Anyone else know what it was for or have this recall? Cheers, Matt.

edit: I just found out the prefic PRGC instead of SRCC means that it wasn't a recall, but a service campaign. Still no idea what for though!