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DETROIT (Reuters) – author Motor Co said it would request most 144,000 F-150 models in the United States and Canada from the 2005 and 2006 model eld due to a venture that airbags could deploy because of a brief circuit.

The maker said a mistake in the assembly of the trucks at its Norfolk, Colony being could drive an airbag wire in the steering wheel to brief circuit.

Ford said that it received an unspecified sort of complaints most the airbag problem. In most cases, airbags had deployed meet a few seconds after the trucks were started.

A salutation to NHTSA this week from author said the maker believes, "the information does not inform an indefensible venture to motor container safety. However, to refrain a protracted discussion with the authority and to wage bushel to those vehicles most likely to exhibit the condition, author is recalling those vehicles produced at the metropolis Assembly Plant from Nov 1, 2004, through June 30, 2005."

Ford has now recalled more than 1 million vehicles in the first digit months of this year, more than the 600,000 recalled for all of 2010.

A request attending was not directly posted on the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration's website and it was not directly country how many drivers complained most the problem, or if there had been some reports of related injuries.

"Ford is alive of digit customer that jumped from the container after a deployment that occurred in a driveway," the consort said in a statement.

The F-150 is the top-selling container in the United States and Ford's ascendency of the lucrative truck market has contributed to its readying low Chief Executive Alan Mulally.

Ford said it would notify owners of the vehicles covered by the request in early March.

The maker said it expected the bushel to change the potentially imperfect wiring command would take inferior than half a day and would be done at no calculate at author dealerships.

Ford said most of the vehicles with the imperfect wire appeared to hit been shapely during the first agitate working at the metropolis being from Nov 2004 to June 2005.

In cases where the airbag has deployed in the trucks, author said a warning light had been illuminated notifying driver's that the container needed service.

(Reporting by Kevin Krolicki; redaction by Gerald E. McCormick, Tim Dobbyn and Andre Grenon)

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