Ford Recalls 3.6 Million Vehicles For Faulty Cruise Control Switch and Possible Fire Risk

Article on cnn.com —  Ford recalling millions of vehicles because of faulty switches.  Here’s an excerpt:

Two years after his wife of 34 years died in a fire, an Iowa man continues to maintain the blaze was started by a faulty cruise control switch under the hood of her 1996 Ford F-150 pickup — while it was parked in the garage attached to his home.

Although Ford has denied — and continues to deny — the switch started the fire that killed 74-year-old Dolly Mohlis in 2005, the company recently settled a lawsuit brought against it by Earl Mohlis. And last week, it issued a recall of an estimated 3.6 million vehicles — bringing the total recalled over the past decade to more than 10 million — every single car and truck built with a similar cruise control switch.

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