2000 Ford E-450 defect investigations

Investigations by NHTSA’s Office of Defects Investigation that name the 2000 Ford E-450. An investigation is how complaints can become a recall: complaints → investigation → (sometimes) TSB → recall.

• HVAC Switch Failures
  Preliminary Evaluation PE09055 · opened Dec 7, 2009 · closed Apr 21, 2010

  ODI has received 1 complaint and reports from 4 transportation fleets alleging 182 switch failures.Each fleet operates mini buses built on a Ford E350 or E450 cutaway chassis.The OEM HVAC blower switches have melted, smoked, burned or experienced open flame and become inoperable on vehicles in each fleet.Some drivers h…

• ENGINE COMPARTMENT FIRES
  Engineering Analysis EA05005 · opened Mar 22, 2005 · closed Aug 2, 2006 · led to recall 08V025000

  Ea05-005 is closed with ford?s actions in recalls 05v-017, 05v-388, and 06v-286, recalling approximately 6.7 million vehicles equipped with texas instruments speed control deactivation switches (scds).the brake systems in these recalled vehicles generate a vacuum that can potentially cause the scds to fail and, in cert…

• RAPID TIRE DEFLATION
  Engineering Analysis EA02018 · opened Aug 19, 2002 · closed Aug 22, 2003

  This investigation was opened on certain ford pickup trucks and vans to evaluate the effects of a valve stem ejection (with rapid air loss) and a slow leaking valve stem on vehicle handing.during the investigation, odi evaluated over 1,100 complaints and warranty claims, conducted vehicle dynamic testing on a subject v…