AFTER your advice on the failure of brake hoses on Falcons, I asked Consumer Affairs Victoria about my 2005 BA ute. Two weeks later Ford Australia asked me to take my ute to my dealer to have the front brake hoses replaced. Thank you for the advice you have given all concerned and for the continuous pressure you have applied to Ford. Without it this matter would have been swept under the carpet, and perhaps many motorists injured or killed.
TALKING to Bruce after getting his letter, he tells me the dealer replaced the hoses with later BF hoses, which appear different from the BA hoses taken from his ute. A staff member of the dealer's service department told him the hoses were to go back to Ford for testing. Bruce's son, who runs an Ultratune service centre, says when Falcons are jacked up and the wheels off the ground, the brake hoses are very taut, as if the suspension is hanging on them. Sounds much like the reason Ford gave for recalling the Territory, and adds to the evidence of a problem.
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