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Vehicle's front driver side window spontaneously fell off track and into the door while in a car wash at dealership. Operator was overcome with water, entire interior was soaking wet.
The contact owns a 2015 Ford Fiesta. The contact stated that water was leaking from the windshield into the dashboard and the air bag and stabilizing warning lights illuminated. The vehicle was taken to a dealer. The vehicle was not diagnosed or repaired. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The failure mileage was 1,800. The VIN was unavailable.
This all came about at 11:30 pm when leaving the work place the car would not provide heating to the defrosters or other areas after the engine was at operating temp. The outside temp was at minus six and wind chill below that number.the car was driven home a distance of five plus miles with the windshield frosted making it difficult to see through. Upon arrival at home there was two small cleared spots the size of half dollars at the bottom of the windshield. After having the car towed to the dealer this morning they determined the problem was an iced cabin air filter and [frozen] as in iced fan blower they had to dry out. Per ssm 44942 in which engineers at Ford [ I presume ] were investigating or as stated on the paper work I received from the dealer, concerned engineers. This falls under safety do to vision being impaired because of this problem which appears to be known by the manufacture. This car was only driven at this late time of night as traffic was almost nil and the extreme weather dictated.
- Muskegon, MI, USA
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- Monroeville, PA, USA