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Ford Offers Dealers $1,000 Bounty to Fix Ranger Airbags

Ford Motor Co. says it will pay its U.S. dealers $1,000 per truck to replace explosion-prone Takata Corp. airbag inflators in recalled 2006-model Ford Ranger pickups.
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Ford Motor Co. says it will pay its U.S. dealers $1,000 per truck to replace explosion-prone Takata Corp. airbag inflators in recalled 2006-model Ford Ranger pickups.

 

Ford has warned since February that 36,300 of the trucks should not be driven until they are repaired. The company tells Automotive News dealers have already repaired about 75% of the targeted trucks.

The faulty inflators have been blamed for at least one fatality involving a Ranger truck. The devices in the recalled models have been identified as especially likely to misfire in a crash.

The do-not-drive recall is part of a larger airbag inflator campaign to replace driver and passenger frontal airbags in 391,400 Rangers built between 2004 and 2006.

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