Federal Register #DP26-004

NHTSA Denies Petition to Investigate Ford Fusion Hybrid ABS

This notice concerns NHTSA’s decision on a petition to investigate the Ford Fusion Hybrid’s anti-lock braking system. - Government agency: U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), Office of Defects Investigation. - OEM: Ford manufactured the vehicle named in the petition, the model year 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. - The petition alleged that failure of the anti-lock braking system’s hydraulic control unit (HCU) could cause an ABS warning, impaired ABS, loss of traction and electronic stability control, and reduced braking performance on slippery roads. - NHTSA denied the petition, finding that the hybrid’s brake system differed from the non-hybrid vehicles covered by an earlier recall and that the reported failure information did not establish an unreasonable safety risk warranting a new investigation. - This is a regulatory notice, not a procurement or award; no products or services are being requested.

Description

NHTSA denied petition DP26-004, which requested a safety defect investigation into the hydraulic control unit for the Anti-lock Braking System on the model year 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid. The petition alleged that an illuminated ABS malfunction indicator lamp was associated with HCU failure, ABS malfunction, loss of traction and electronic stability control functions, and reduced braking performance on slippery roads. After reviewing the petition and other information, NHTSA concluded that the issues did not warrant a new defect investigation. This notice reports the reasons for the denial.

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