A series of new class actions are alleging that GM vehicles and vehicles produced by
Ford Motor Company are defective because of a fuel injection pump that both brands of
vehicles are using in some of their diesel vehicles that they knew was incompatible with
United States diesel fuel standards.
Joining me for more on this, to give us a little bit of clarification here is Scott
Hardy from top class actions.
So Scott, right now what we're looking at is we've got certain GM diesel vehicles, certain
Ford diesel vehicles, they all use this, it is a CP4 fuel injection pump that was made
by Bosch.
They used it in Europe.
It was doing great in Europe, and so Ford and GM said, let's bring that to our United
States vehicles, and then all hell broke loose, didn't it?
Right.
It sure did, and it's simply because, as you mentioned, the fuel, the diesel fuel they
use in Europe is not the same due to environmental regulations as they use here in the United
States.
And so the fuel, the diesel fuel they use in Europe is more viscous.
It's more lubricating and so then you have this CP4 pump which is pushing that fuel into
the engine and it doesn't have that same lubrication that we, in the United States as it has in
Europe, which can cause metal shavings to go into the engine.
So we're seeing not only the fuel pump failing, but we're also seeing catastrophic failures
within the engines themselves and so you have people that are having problems in their trucks
that could cost upwards of 50, 60, $75,000, if you go ahead and load up a fully diesel
truck.
Then these trucks are failing and it could cost $5,000, $10,000, even $20,000 to get
that vehicle back on the road and working.
And so you also have owners that are complaining about this fact that can't even sell their
trucks even though they're still working because people know as the class action states that
GM and Ford put what could be caused and alleged ticking time bomb within these trucks themselves
rather than actually fix the problem.
Right, a lot of these people who are trying to sell their vehicles, even if they still
work, they don't know if there's been the corrosion that you talked about, the metal
shavings from the parts rubbing together.
That could be just lurking in the engine.
It could be building up in any nook or cranny inside of the internal components there, so
without a way to really just take the entire engine apart and clean out what's in there
or even at least see if it's there, these people have no clue whether or not their vehicle
is going to just completely shut down or you know, turn off or go out of control while
going down the interstate or even going down the street with children playing on side of
the road.
They don't know, but the thing here is that Ford knew.
GM knew.
They knew exactly what would happen with the CP4 fuel injector pumps but still said, you
know what, let's give it a shot here in the United States.
I mean, that's pretty much what's happened here, isn't it?
Exactly.
I mean, Ford is selling more than a thousand trucks a day.
More than a thousand trucks a day, just, you know, pushing these cars out there and you've
got these, these models going back to 2011.
So this has been ongoing for years and years and Ford and GM have still not addressed it,
still not swapped out the pump.
You know, if we look at the cars that are included, the trucks that are included and
the Ford, it actually goes up to 2018.
And so we're thinking that we know from 2011, 2018, they're still using the same problematic
fuel pump in the US for these diesel trucks.
People are still buying them right now.
That is a huge problem and it's an expensive problem because you can't, as you said, you
can't just go ahead and take apart your engine and see if you're experiencing it.
You can't just peek into your fuel injector pump to see if there's a problem.
You're not going to know until your engine quits, until you have problems, and then all
of a sudden you're stuck with a huge mechanical bill and diesel engines are supposed to be
super reliable.
You're supposed to be able to truck through those diesel engines for hundreds of thousands
of miles.
But according to these class actions, these diesel engines won't last that long and will
be very expensive to fix.
When as you, exactly as you said, GM and Ford were both aware that there would be problems
using that fuel pump in America.
And as usual, you know, these automobile companies, they typically will put profits over safety,
profits over reliability, but every time, and I mean that every single time it comes
back to bite them because lawyers in this country will stand up for the victims every
time and they're always going to make sure that these companies pay up and take care
of the people whose products have been destroyed, whose lives have been destroyed.
And that is what is so important about the trial lawyers here in the United States.
And it's what's so important about what you guys do over at top class actions.
Now, if anybody is questioning this, if you have any, you know, concerns that maybe one
of your vehicles is on this list, I encourage you to follow the links in the description
to this video to top class actions.
They have complete lists of the vehicles.
Keep checking back, those could be updated as this investigation continues.
But Scott Hardy, thank you for all that you do and we appreciate you staying on top of
this story.
Thanks Farron, I appreciate it.