Ford did not live up to, the implied claims about their vehicle and they definitely did not exercise due care to prevent people from being injured by their products. Ford was negligent and did not inform its customers of the possibly rollover issues facing the Ford Explorer. Even though they replaced tires on over 45,000 vehicles in the Middle East and other countries with hot temperatures. Ford and Firestone analyze 63 vehicles in the Southwestern US and knowing that there issues still concluded that the tires were safe. However, Firestone has been just as unfair as Ford the concluded that “there was a correlation between heat and the tire problems and also blamed the motorist for not keeping the tires properly inflated (Firestone case study). On one hand, Firestone exercised due care by offering free inspection of tires that were not covered by the initial recall. Firestone should have informed their customers of the tire separation
Ford did not live up to, the implied claims about their vehicle and they definitely did not exercise due care to prevent people from being injured by their products. Ford was negligent and did not inform its customers of the possibly rollover issues facing the Ford Explorer. Even though they replaced tires on over 45,000 vehicles in the Middle East and other countries with hot temperatures. Ford and Firestone analyze 63 vehicles in the Southwestern US and knowing that there issues still concluded that the tires were safe. However, Firestone has been just as unfair as Ford the concluded that “there was a correlation between heat and the tire problems and also blamed the motorist for not keeping the tires properly inflated (Firestone case study). On one hand, Firestone exercised due care by offering free inspection of tires that were not covered by the initial recall. Firestone should have informed their customers of the tire separation