Vehicle profile
1992 Ford Festiva
Hatchback · Subcompact Cars
Specifications
What's under the hood.
- Horsepower
- 140 hp
- Cylinders
- 4-cyl
- Displacement
- 1.3L
- Fuel
- Gasoline
- Transmission
- Automatic 3-spd
- Drive
- FWD
- Body class
- Subcompact Cars
Federal recall campaigns
1 federal recall campaign.
How this compares
- vs 1992 Subcompact Cars
- 0.48× the 2.1 campaigns averaged across that group (fewer than typical)
- Most-affected system
- SUSPENSION — 1 of 1 (100%)
Derived from the federal campaign record across 1992 vehicles in the same body class. Counts are of campaigns, not of faults found.
96E017000
SUSPENSION:FRONT:CONTROL ARMEQUIPMENT DESCRIPTION: AFTERMARKET BALL JOINT/CONTROL ARM MANUFACTURED BY MOOG INDUSTRIES. DUE TO MISPACKAGING, CERTAIN BALL JOINT/CONTROL ARM ASSEMBLIES WERE INCORRECTLY PLACED IN THE WRONG BOXES.
Consequence: THESE BALL JOINT/CONTROL ARM ASSEMBLIES WILL NOT FIT INTO THE FRAME RECESS WITHOUT BEING ALTERED. ALSO THE STUD IS UNDERSIZED AND WILL NOT FIT THE SPINDLE PROPERLY POSSIBLY CAUSING A LOSS OF STEERING CONTROL INCREASING THE RISK OF A VEHICLE ACCIDENT.
Remedy: MOOG WILL REPLACE THE INCORRECTLY PACKAGED ASSEMBLIES WITH CORRECT BALL JOINT/CONTROL ARM ASSEMBLIES.
24/06/1996
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"year": 1992,
"make": "Ford",
"model": "Festiva",
"trim": "Festiva",
"submodel": "Hatchback",
"horsepower": 140,
"cylinders": 4,
"displacement_l": 1.3,
"transmission": "Automatic 3-spd",
"drive_type": "FWD",
"fuel_type": "Gasoline",
"body_class": "Subcompact Cars",
"image_url": "https://f005.backblazeb2.com/file/vehicle/vehicle-images/1992-ford-festiva-1754847126316-e90927d0.jpeg",
"image_type": "illustration",
"recall_count": 1
}Compare
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