Ford 12 passenger van mirror piece fell out10/13/2023 You are not going to want to carry on reading this and in fairness it was a freak thing that I have never heard of before or after.Ī guy I work with has his wing mirror amputated on his Citro£n Picasso and the car would not start.Īfter getting it towed to his local dealer's it ended up needing rewiring and a new computer. So, to the OP, if a total replacement is required try and persuade the owner to recognise your honesty and go down the breakers yard route even if that means a respray. Quite frankly it looked as good as new, and there was no way of telling (at least to my lay eyes) that it wasn't new. Once I had recovered from the shock, they suggested the breakers yard route, and located one although it was the wrong colour, which they were happy to respray. They said the full price for a new replacement including fitting and VAT was just under £450. My first port of call was my local garage. Unfortunately no note left by an honourable person like the OP, so I had to deal with it myself. I had by mirror broken whilst it was parked. On my new car, I'd probably want a new one fitted - partly because I don't currently have the time to source the part from a breakers and take the door apart to fit it. I’m sure if anyone from the government reached out to the facebook group mentioned above, along with other Ford facebook/social media groups that this would cover like the Ford edge groups, they would easily find that this is a major safety issu.> If it was my old car when I had time, I'd get a replacement from a breakers and swap them over. I’ve seen previous articles that mention the NHTSA has received reports of these flying off, but the number of reports was only around 160. Please investigate this and really review this issue. I unfortunately do not have specific dates/milage/pictures of my previous incidents, and didn’t think of filling out a report until now when I’m in the middle of replacing my b-pillar, but I can provide the dates and pictures of the piece off of my b-pillar below. These seem to be poorly engineered parts if they continually fly off the vehicles, plus Ford doesn’t make or sell these parts very cheap so it’s obvious they are just trying to make money while putting lives at risk. I really believe something needs to happen to fix this. I’m lucky that all 3 times it happened to me, there weren’t any motorcycles driving behind me that could have gotten seriously injured by these pieces flying off at highway speeds. I’ve also seen many Ford Explorers driving around that have the trim pieces missing meaning that either they fly off so often that I am seeing these vehicles during this short time before the owner’s get them replaced, or they flew off and people just didn’t want to fix it because they fly off so often. I’ve joined a “5th generation Ford Explorer” facebook group, and it seems that this is a very common occurrence to many users of this vehicle. Since then, the same thing has happened to my driver’s side a pillar exterior trim, and just this week (August 2023) the b pillar trim that also held my keyless entry keypad has also flown off while driving down the highway. I purchased this car in January of 2021 and in April of 2022 the passenger side front window a pillar trim flew off while driving down the highway.
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