I guess you didn't get the memo. That recall was 15 years ago.

 

Wish i would've known. Made me aware, do recall check on every car. Because these car manufacturers really don't care about what they build anymore.

 

Luckily it was parked outside and not in that garage.

Good luck with that... hope you got good insurance.

 

Let me get it out of the way first, the truck was a 2004 5.4 flareside. I know that does not fit the recall, yet the truck had trouble coming out of park, the battery had been draining, and it had broken brake line so we know the master had been topped up (and fluid had likely dribbled more than once.
My husband was going to do the repairs for a friend, he's a retired red seal mechanic. He moved the truck ftom our driveway and backed it into the garage, shut it off and hung the keys on the garage wall. Next afternoon he walked out of the open doors of the garage and heard a 'pop' behind him. He turned in time to see a basketball-sized ball of fire come out of the drivers side wheel well. He ran into our house anf told me 'the garage is on fire', I gave him the kitchen fire extinguisher and asked if I should call 911. He said 'Yes!' and ran back out - in that time, the truck was engulfed, and as I dialed 911 I could then see flames busting out the garage's back window and out under the sills by the concrete pad. The OP said something about an extinguisher like 'pissing on a volcano'? Yeah.
Our house is 18 feet away, our barn about 100. We have six cats and a german shepherd, and all my pet carriers were outside from giving awsy a bunch of roosters a couple days before - I hollered to hubby to move our cars, and while the windows started cracking on that side of the house and in the door, I ducked out in between house and garage, grabbed the carriers, started stuffing cats and handing carriers to hubby. There were 2 cats I couldn't catch, and the bloody doggo didnt like being drug away by his collar and put up in our truck for safety. I guess he'd rather growl and burn??
Anyway, the garage burned to the ground but thank god thd wind was blowing away from the house, it melted and scorched the side and took out the power.
I have attached pictures.
And here is a question - this f-150 was out of KC MO plant. Is it possible one of the recalled CCDSs went on it?
Has anyone else had a fire like this from a vehicle not included in the recall? Also curiously, when I pull up the VIN on several sites it calls it an SVT Lightning with recalls including the switch, but Ford Canada does not. VIN is 1FTRF04544KC10817.

 

Let me get it out of the way first, the truck was a 2004 5.4 flareside. I know that does not fit the recall, yet the truck had trouble coming out of park, the battery had been draining, and it had broken brake line so we know the master had been topped up (and fluid had likely dribbled more than once.
My husband was going to do the repairs for a friend, he's a retired red seal mechanic. He moved the truck ftom our driveway and backed it into the garage, shut it off and hung the keys on the garage wall. Next afternoon he walked out of the open doors of the garage and heard a 'pop' behind him. He turned in time to see a basketball-sized ball of fire come out of the drivers side wheel well. He ran into our house anf told me 'the garage is on fire', I gave him the kitchen fire extinguisher and asked if I should call 911. He said 'Yes!' and ran back out - in that time, the truck was engulfed, and as I dialed 911 I could then see flames busting out the garage's back window and out under the sills by the concrete pad. The OP said something about an extinguisher like 'pissing on a volcano'? Yeah.
Our house is 18 feet away, our barn about 100. We have six cats and a german shepherd, and all my pet carriers were outside from giving awsy a bunch of roosters a couple days before - I hollered to hubby to move our cars, and while the windows started cracking on that side of the house and in the door, I ducked out in between house and garage, grabbed the carriers, started stuffing cats and handing carriers to hubby. There were 2 cats I couldn't catch, and the bloody doggo didnt like being drug away by his collar and put up in our truck for safety. I guess he'd rather growl and burn??
Anyway, the garage burned to the ground but thank god thd wind was blowing away from the house, it melted and scorched the side and took out the power.
I have attached pictures.
And here is a question - this f-150 was out of KC MO plant. Is it possible one of the recalled CCDSs went on it?
Has anyone else had a fire like this from a vehicle not included in the recall? Also curiously, when I pull up the VIN on several sites it calls it an SVT Lightning with recalls including the switch, but Ford Canada does not. VIN is 1FTRF04544KC10817.

 

Let me get it out of the way first, the truck was a 2004 5.4 flareside. I know that does not fit the recall, yet the truck had trouble coming out of park, the battery had been draining, and it had broken brake line so we know the master had been topped up (and fluid had likely dribbled more than once.
My husband was going to do the repairs for a friend, he's a retired red seal mechanic. He moved the truck ftom our driveway and backed it into the garage, shut it off and hung the keys on the garage wall. Next afternoon he walked out of the open doors of the garage and heard a 'pop' behind him. He turned in time to see a basketball-sized ball of fire come out of the drivers side wheel well. He ran into our house anf told me 'the garage is on fire', I gave him the kitchen fire extinguisher and asked if I should call 911. He said 'Yes!' and ran back out - in that time, the truck was engulfed, and as I dialed 911 I could then see flames busting out the garage's back window and out under the sills by the concrete pad. The OP said something about an extinguisher like 'pissing on a volcano'? Yeah.
Our house is 18 feet away, our barn about 100. We have six cats and a german shepherd, and all my pet carriers were outside from giving awsy a bunch of roosters a couple days before - I hollered to hubby to move our cars, and while the windows started cracking on that side of the house and in the door, I ducked out in between house and garage, grabbed the carriers, started stuffing cats and handing carriers to hubby. There were 2 cats I couldn't catch, and the bloody doggo didnt like being drug away by his collar and put up in our truck for safety. I guess he'd rather growl and burn??
Anyway, the garage burned to the ground but thank god thd wind was blowing away from the house, it melted and scorched the side and took out the power.
I have attached pictures.
And here is a question - this f-150 was out of KC MO plant. Is it possible one of the recalled CCDSs went on it?
Has anyone else had a fire like this from a vehicle not included in the recall? Also curiously, when I pull up the VIN on several sites it calls it an SVT Lightning with recalls including the switch, but Ford Canada does not. VIN is 1FTRF04544KC10817.

 

2004 Ford F-150 Recall

Item Affected: VEHICLE SPEED CONTROL

Date Announced: 08/03/2007

Let me get it out of the way first, the truck in our story was a 2004 5.4 flareside. I know that does not fit the recall, yet the truck had trouble coming out of park, the battery had been draining, and it had broken brake line so we know the master had been topped up (and fluid had likely dribbled more than once.
My husband was going to do the repairs for a friend, he's a retired red seal mechanic. He moved the truck ftom our driveway and backed it into the garage, shut it off and hung the keys on the garage wall. Next afternoon he walked out of the open doors of the garage and heard a 'pop' behind him. He turned in time to see a basketball-sized ball of fire come out of the drivers side wheel well. He ran into our house anf told me 'the garage is on fire', I gave him the kitchen fire extinguisher and asked if I should call 911. He said 'Yes!' and ran back out - in that time, the truck was engulfed, and as I dialed 911 I could then see flames busting out the garage's back window and out under the sills by the concrete pad. The OP said something about an extinguisher like 'pissing on a volcano'? Yeah.
Our house is 18 feet away, our barn about 100. We have six cats and a german shepherd, and all my pet carriers were outside from giving awsy a bunch of roosters a couple days before - I hollered to hubby to move our cars, and while the windows started cracking on that side of the house and in the door, I ducked out in between house and garage, grabbed the carriers, started stuffing cats and handing carriers to hubby. There were 2 cats I couldn't catch, and the bloody doggo didnt like being drug away by his collar and put up in our truck for safety. I guess he'd rather growl and burn??
Anyway, the garage burned to the ground but thank god thd wind was blowing away from the house, it melted and scorched the side and took out the power.
I have attached pictures.
And here is a question - this f-150 was out of KC MO plant. Is it possible one of the recalled CCDSs went on it?
Has anyone else had a fire like this from a vehicle not included in the recall? Also curiously, when I pull up the VIN on several sites it calls it an SVT Lightning with recalls including the switch, but Ford Canada does not. VIN is 1FTRF04544KC10817 .

 

Sorry about the loss, but the 04 NBS F150 did not use the switch that was the cause of the previous recalls. Completely different system.

Whatever the cause, it was other than the circumstances discussed in this thread.

 

It would not be the first time a part was put on that wasn't supposed to be, so I thought I would ask.

Also do you know if is there is an option to delete a post? All I see is 'edit' so perhaps I am missing it. My duplicated several times and I'd like to remove the extras.

 

You can't delete it, but you can edit it and delete everything. You do need a few characters for it to be valid, so just type post deleted or something like that.

 

also note that the vehicle was in need of unknown repairs and in unknown condition prior to the incident

 

I’m sick! Just put a brand new alternator, battery, starter and much more. Firefighters, were surprised because the truck was in pretty good condition. Not sure what started it but the cruise control switch was smoking a couple days ago on the master cylinder it was a miner leak but it was just needing tightened. Drive great the day before no codes and I was ecstatic. Luckily my home/neighbors home wasn’t damaged and I hadn’t left for work as I was heading out to go it was engulfed. So much money gone down the drain.

4-6-21 How my morning started before heading to work and hadn’t crunk her up before fire.

 

No, it needed to be replaced.

 

perfect example of operator ERROR

 

Judging by the photos, that was from the master cylinder area.

You wouldn't happen to have any pictures of the engine bay before the fire? We can usually point out if the cruise control recall was done by the pigtail and label.