Detroit, Nov 09: Ford Motor Co. said on Friday that it will recall 343,250 Ford Windstar minivans worldwide after a U.S. government compliance test showed that a rear seat could become dislodged in a crash. The recall, which includes 257,000 of the model year 2001 to 2003 minivans sold in the United States , comes after the rear seat came loose during tests by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), said Ford spokesman Glenn Ray.
Ray said that Ford disagrees with the procedure for the NHTSA test, which used straps to pull on seats in a parked vehicle to simulate forces in a crash.

The third-row bench seat failed in the NHTSA tests, but Ford will replace both the third- and second-row seat latches.
Ford conducts a different test to measure stresses in a crash, and the automaker is unaware of any incidents of seats becoming dislodged in a real crash, Ray said. Bureau Report