{"id":149715,"date":"2017-01-10T11:05:40","date_gmt":"2017-01-10T09:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=149715"},"modified":"2017-01-10T11:05:40","modified_gmt":"2017-01-10T09:05:40","slug":"ford-kuga-parts-shortage-adds-fuel-to-the-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/149715\/ford-kuga-parts-shortage-adds-fuel-to-the-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"Ford Kuga parts shortage adds fuel to the fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Kuga owners attempting to find replacement parts\u00a0can expect to wait several new months for new parts according to a report by\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2017\/01\/10\/Another-burning-issue-for-Ford-Kuga-owners-fume-over-parts-shortage\" target=\"_blank\">Times Live<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>As a result several Kuga owners have taken to social media to air their frustration at being unable\u00a0to either repair or sell their vehicles without facing a massive loss.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was meant to be for a so-called hour maintenance check and it\u2019s been a week we have been without our car. We phoned them to find out what\u2019s going on and apparently the parts are only to be expected to arrive in February sometime. Really now,\u201d said Kuga owner\u00a0Leigh-Anne MacGregor on\u00a0the Ford Vehicles Burning FaceBook group.<\/p>\n<p>Two more Ford Kugas burst into flames this past weekend with over 40 vehicles experiencing combustion issues\u00a0over the past few years. While Ford believes the issue lies with a faulty coolant system, other independent research has pointed to a faulty plastic fuel pipe connection and an electrical wiring problem being\u00a0responsible for the fires.<\/p>\n<p>Ford has, however, expressed reluctance to recall the vehicle, stating that there currently isn\u2019t enough evidence to initiate a recall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile our investigations into the reports of engine fires in Kugas equipped with the 1.6-litre EcoBoost engine in South Africa are not complete at this time\u201a we have found that the fires may be a result of engine overheating,&#8221; said Ford&#8217;s news operations director\u00a0John Gardiner\u201a<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is why we recommend customers with these vehicles to go to their Ford dealer where they will check the coolant concentration level and for any leaks or damage to the cooling system\u201a plus conduct static and dynamic cooling system pressure tests.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are ensuring that our dealers have the necessary stock of Ford-approved replacement parts so that they can carry out the maintenance checks on the coolant systems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect full spare parts coverage at all our dealerships in the next few days. In the interim\u201a should a dealer find that a part needs to be replaced on a customer car\u201a but that the part is not currently in his stock\u201a the customer will be provided with a courtesy car until the part can be replaced.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/motoring\/149597\/this-is-how-much-you-would-get-if-you-sold-your-ford-kuga-now\/\" target=\"_blank\">This is how much you would get if you sold your Ford Kuga now<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ford Kuga owners attempting to find replacement parts can expect to wait several new months for new parts according to a new report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":147465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11119],"tags":[25],"class_list":["post-149715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motoring","tag-active"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149715"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149735,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149715\/revisions\/149735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}