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2020+ Shelby GT500 Mustang
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<blockquote data-quote="Tob" data-source="post: 16536761" data-attributes="member: 83412"><p>The recall covers certain auto S550's too, not just GT500's.</p><p></p><p>Ford used a glass reinforced nylon for S550 brake pedal pivot brackets, without issue. Somebody at Ford decided to push for some cost savings here and as a result, the material used was changed to polypropylene (also reinforced with glass fiber). Ford witnessed a few polypropylene bracket failures, voluntarily instituted this recall program, and as a result are removing the polypropylene units and going back to nylon.</p><p></p><p>The brackets are 100% identical, aside from the material change. The ribbing, fillets, radii, physical size and dimensions have not changed. No new reinforcement in the pivot area that failed.</p><p></p><p>The savings per bracket was very small but the choice to make the change is now proving to be very costly. The question is, how did Ford's both virtual and real world testing/evaluation not reveal the failures customers witnessed?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tob, post: 16536761, member: 83412"] The recall covers certain auto S550's too, not just GT500's. Ford used a glass reinforced nylon for S550 brake pedal pivot brackets, without issue. Somebody at Ford decided to push for some cost savings here and as a result, the material used was changed to polypropylene (also reinforced with glass fiber). Ford witnessed a few polypropylene bracket failures, voluntarily instituted this recall program, and as a result are removing the polypropylene units and going back to nylon. The brackets are 100% identical, aside from the material change. The ribbing, fillets, radii, physical size and dimensions have not changed. No new reinforcement in the pivot area that failed. The savings per bracket was very small but the choice to make the change is now proving to be very costly. The question is, how did Ford's both virtual and real world testing/evaluation not reveal the failures customers witnessed? [/QUOTE]
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