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Re: Dateline NBC, Runaway Fords and my customers
Posted to Open Discussion Forum on 2/12/1999

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Alan,

The failure chain they outlined on the show was pretty involved. It required 3 seperate failures to cause the runaway accelleration.

1) The vacuum dump valve at the brake pedal fails closed ... Login to read more.