Ford Aspire
Registered from 1996 to 1997.
Crash test
| Stability control | No |
| Forward collision warning | No |
| Lane departure warning | No |
Crash-tested by NHTSA, the American road safety agency.
Specification
| Year | Measured |
|---|---|
| 1997 | 931 kg · 2390 mm wheelbase · 9.0 L/100km (EPA) · 9.8 L/100km city · 8.1 motorway · Hatch, 4-door |
| 1996 | 931 kg · 2390 mm wheelbase · 8.4 L/100km (EPA) · 9.4 L/100km city · 7.6 motorway · Hatch, 4-door |
Regulator investigations
Opened by NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation. An investigation is a question the regulator asked about a possible defect, not a fault it found — most end without a recall.
Fuel vapor valve leaks
Preliminary evaluation, opened July 1998, closed November 1998.
What the maker told its dealers
Service bulletins are the manufacturer's own repair guidance to dealers, filed with NHTSA. A bulletin is not a defect finding; the count rises with how many things a maker writes down, not only with how many go wrong.
Ford filed 48 bulletins about the 1997 Aspire.
- Power train: 11
- Engine and engine cooling: 8
- Electrical system: 5
- Service brakes, hydraulic: 5
- Exterior lighting: 3
- Visibility: 3
- Structure: 2
- Equipment: 1
- Fuel system, gasoline: 1
- Latches/locks/linkages: 1
- Other: 8
- Lamp-brake-invadvertent disabling of brake shift interlock. *mj · August 2004
- New transmission cooler flusher - service tips. 2003 escort and super duty f series included. *tt · October 2003
- Brake shift interlock.*jb · November 2001
- Information regarding transmission fluid usage charts. *slc · October 2001
- Some vehicles may exhibit heater core leaks. *slc · October 2001
- Some vehicles may exhibit a malfunction indicator lamp on with diagnostic trouble code p0300 stored in memory. engineering is investigating. *tt · January 2001
- Information on vehicles exhibiting a malfunction indicator lamp on with diagnostic trouble code p0300 stored in memory. *tt · January 2001
- Information on the new flush and fill tool available through rotunda. *tt · January 2001
40 more.
Grouped by NHTSA's top-level system; a bulletin filed under a sub-heading counts toward its system.