Ford Motor Co. has once more prolonged the non permanent closure of its Louisville Meeting Plant for one more week because it battles a software program challenge on the refreshed Escape and Lincoln Corsair crossovers.
The plant’s constructing chairman, Brandon Reisinger, knowledgeable staff Thursday the downtime will now final till March 6, which Ford confirmed to Automotive Information.
Subsequent week will mark the fourth-consecutive week the plant has been down.
Reisinger, nonetheless, famous the corporate seems to have solved the issue.
“We do have a brand new re-flash to deal with the programming challenge we have now with the clusters,” he advised staff. “This re-flash does seem like good. In the entire testing, they’ve had no points thus far. I believe they lastly have their challenge resolved.”
Reisinger had beforehand mentioned the issue concerned software program within the cluster that might have required a visit to the dealership.
The plant is presently within the pre-production part of the freshened Escape and Corsair launch.