Ford adds 4.5 m vehicles to defective switch recall

Ford Motor Co said Tuesday it will add 4.5 million older-model
vehicles to the long list of those recalled because a defective
cruise control switch could cause a fire. The latest voluntary action
pushes Ford's total recall due to faulty switches to 14.3 million
registered vehicles over 10 years, capping the company's largest
cumulative recall in history involving a single problem. The recall
covers 1.1 million Ford Windstar minivans that had a small risk of
fire due to internal leaking from the switches. Ford said in a letter
to federal regulators that it found a small number of reported fires
linked to the problem during an internal investigation that began
last year, but did not specify how many.