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"Study of Motor Vehicle Fires" 

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Office of Research and Development 

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration 

February 1988 

Prepared by 

Data Link, Inc. 

Washington, D.C. 
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"Study of Motor Vehicle Fires" 

INTRODUCTION 

The purpose of the work reported here is to review and analyze 

motor vehicle accident records and records of motor vehicle 

defects, so that a series of questions can be addressed 

concerning the origins, incidence, and characterization of 

motor vehicle (MV) fires nationwide, with emphasis on cars. 

This document reports the results of work conducted between 

November 1, 1987 and December 10, 1987. The work draws raw 

data concerning police reported MV fires from the two national 

accident data systems (the Fatal Accident Reporting System and 

the National Accident Sampling System); and from the accident 

records of selected States (Michigan, Maryland, Ohio, 

Pennsylvania, Washington, Indiana, Texas, and Illinois). 

Raw data concerning fire related MV defects are obtained from 

files of national scope maintained by NHTSA's Office of Defects 

Investigation. This includes records of MV Owner Complaints;, 

Technical Service Bulletins issued by MV manufacturers, MV 

Recall Campaigns, and public Records of MV Defect 

Investigations. 

The files mentioned above address MV accidents and/or 

MV defects from different perspectives, and following different 

protocols. Moreover, the subject of MV fires is inherently 

fuzzy. A motor vehicle fire can be the outcome of a crash, or 

the primary cause of it; or it can be a concurrent and 

contributing factor to a crash's outcome. 

Furthermore, even in the absence of a crash, a MV fire can be a 

manifestation of MV component or design defects, and can lead 

to increased accident and casualty risks. Because of all these 

factors, a higher than usual complexity should be anticipated 

in addressing and processing raw data, as well as in the review 

and interpretation of results concerning motor vehicle fires. 

The report that follows has two main parts: Part A is 

expository, presents the results of data reduction and 

analysis, and is keyed to the sources of raw data. Part B cuts 

across the various sources of information and addresses 

questions and issues concerning motor vehicle fires. 
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PART A. INCIDENCE AND ATTRIBUTES OF MV FIRES ON THE HIGHWAY 

This part addresses in an expository fashion the pertinent 

information extracted from processing the national accident 

records (the National Accident Sampling System, NASS; and the 

Fatal Accident Reporting System, FARS) and the accident records 

of selected States (Michigan, Ohio, Maryland, Pennsylvania, 

Washington, Indiana; and to a lesser extent Texas and 

Illinois). 

1. National Experience in All Police Reported Accidents (NASS) 

This section addresses the NASS records in the years 1979-1985 

and arrives at national estimates of MV fire and casualty 

counts and rates, as a function of principal MV, crash, and 

fire attributes. 

(a) Fire Counts 

The principal variable for MV Fire designation in the NASS is 

"Fire", at the Vehicle Level. It assumes the following values: 

0 = No Fire; 

1 = Minor Fire, Started in Vehicle; 

2 = Major Fire, Started in Vehicle; 

3 = Minor Fire, Started Externally; 

4 = Major Fire, Started Externally; 

5 = Fire of Unknown Severity and Origin; 

9 = Unknown if Fire; 

This variable is examined first in conjunction with the postaccident disposition of the vehicle: Driven or Towaway. When 

the NASS years 1981-1985 are pooled together the nationally 

weighted results shown in Table 1 are obtained. 

Assuming redistribution of unknown or unavailable category 

counts according to known category proportions, by towaway 

status in Table 1, leads to a five year 1981-1985 pool of 

counts in known Fire-Towaway categories. When this pool is 

divided by five, the mean values of annual incidence are 

obtained as shown in Table 2. 

Table 2 refers to all motor vehicles, annually and nationally, 

in police reported highway accidents. A similar procedure may 

be applied for cars, with results shown in Table 3. It is 

important to keep in mind that the raw counts that generate the 

results of Table 3 are limited. This is shown in Table 4. 
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Table 4 presents the 1981-1985 pool of raw (not weighted for 

national estimates) counts of cars recorded in the NASS, 

according to Fire and Towaway Status. The total count of cars 

with fire related information in the five years 1981-1985 is 

about 263. A similarly constructed table yields about 424 for 

all motor vehicles in the same 1981-1985 period. 

(b) Fire Rates and Distributions 

The use of the counts in Tables 2 and 3 allows calculations of 

proportional fire rates, as well as an evaluation of the 

distribution of motor vehicle fires among major accident damage 

categories. Shown below are the proportional rates, in MV Fires 

per 1,000 NASS Accident Involved Motor Vehicles. The rates are 

shown as a function of towaway occurrence, for cars and other 

motor vehicles. 

Motor Towaway 

Vehicles No Yes Total 

Cars 0.30 6.83 2.29 

Other 1.79 8.50 3.24 

All 0.76 7.19 2.56 

About 2.6 motor vehicles are associated with fire, per 1,000 

NASS accident involved. This rate is about 2.3 for cars, but 

about 40% higher for other motor vehicles. The rate is also 

very strongly related to the towaway outcome of the accident. 

This is evident in the table above, as well as in the following 

table: 

Motor Percent Towaway 

Vehicles w Fire No Fire 

Cars 91 30 

Other 57 22 

All 79 28 

The distribution of motor vehicle fires according to fire 

magnitude (major v. minor) and origin (internal to the vehicle 

v. external) is shown below: 
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Towaway 

Yes 

No 

Total 

Motor 

Vehicles 

Cars 

Other 

All 

Cars 

Other 

All 

Cars 

Other 

All 

Percent of 

Major 

48 

61 

51 

5 

18 

15 

43 

43 

43 

Fires that ar 

Internal 

84 

74 

82 

86 

39 

53 

85 

58 

75 

Note in the above table that the percentages for minor fires or 

for external fires are the complements of the values shown for 

major or internal fires. It is evident in these results that 

the majority of motor vehicle fires (85% for cars) have an 

internal origin, and that about half the fires are of a major 

magnitude, especially in towaway cases. 

(c) NASS Fires in Relation to Crash Attributes 

Two important variables, the General Area of Damage (GAD) and 

the Extent of Deformation, both from the NASS vehicle level, 

have been selected in order to probe the association of NASS MV 

fires with crash attributes. The resolution of car fire 

incidence, as a function of these crash attributes is given in 

Tables 5 and 6. 

These tables display results concerning car fire distributions, 

as well as proportional rates of car fires as a function of 

values asssumed by the GAD and TAD variables. NASS car fires 

are categorized by magnitude (minor or major), irrespective of 

origin. For comparison purposes, the distribution of cars with 

no fire is also displayed. 

(d) Occupant Casualties, Injury Severity, and Lesions in NASS 

Fires 

The NASS, at the occupant level, offers several variables for 

reviewing the casualty patterns in MV fires. Two such 

variables of general interest are: the maximum injury severity 

in the AIS scale, (MAIS), and the treatment/mortality 

associated with an occupant's injuries. 
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MAIS distributions for car occupants are shown in Table 7 for 

three cases: No Fire, Minor Fire, and Major Fire. In a similar 

format, Table 8 gives the distributions of injury outcomes, 

which include: fatality; hospitalization; transport to an 

emergency facility with subsequent release; treatment at the 

scene or later without emergency transport; and no treatment. 

Tables 7 and 8 address distributions of occupant counts. In 

the case of No Fire the distributions are based on samples of 

tens of thousands of observations, and thus have relatively 

small uncertainties. In the case of Fire, however, whether 

minor or major, the available samples are small, i.e. a few 

hundred counts. Thus the reader should be skeptical of any 

fire/no fire differences, unless these differences are very 

large, as in the case of serious injuries and fatalities. 

In addition to injured occupants, the NASS allows an 

examination of occupant injuries, which may be ordered by 

severity as 1st (most severe), 2nd (second most severe), etc. 

Injuries in the NASS may also be addressed by lesion, body 

region organ etc. The variable lesion is particularly 

important in a study of MV fires, as one of the values it 

assumes is "burns", in addition to a long list of other more 

frequent values, such as abrasion, concussion, contusion, 

laceration, fracture, rupture, etc. 

The distribution of "burns" among other lesions of car occupant 

injuries is shown in Table 9. Each of the nine cells of this 

table is addressed by the occurrence and the magnitude of car 

fire, and by whether or not "burns" is associated with the 1st, 

2nd, or 3rd injury of car occupants. 

Each cell contains two numbers; the top number is simply the 

row percent. The second number is the percent proportion of 

"burns" among all possible lesions. 

Note the counterintuitive result of a very high percentage of 

"burns" associated with injuries of occupants in cars with no 

recorded fire. It is hot clear, without further investigation, 

whether this is due to a substantial under-reporting of fires, 

or whether a large number of "burns" occur as a result of 

contact with hot surfaces in the absence of fire, or still 

whether "burns" is miscoded in the place of another lesion, in 

the case of no fire. This topic deserves further study. 

Injury outcomes, with "burns" as the lesion of the most severe 

injury, are addressed in Table 10. This table shows the 

patterns of mortality or administered treatment, as a function 

of fire occurrence and magnitude, specifically when "burns'" is 

the lesion of the most severe injury. The table is structured 

very similar to Table 8, which addresses outcome distributions, 

irrespective of specific lesion. 

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2. Motor Vehicle Fires in Fatal Accidents Nationwide (FARS) 

This section addresses the FARS records in the twelve years 

1975-1986 and arrives at national census values of MV fire and 

casualty counts and rates in fatal accidents, as a function of 

principal MV, and crash attributes. 

The FARS, a census of all fatal accidents on U.S. roads, 1975 

to 1986, is the primary source of data for the evaluation of 

fire risks in fatal motor vehicle accidents. This accident 

file offers a categorical variable: "Fire" with values "Yes" or 

"No", concerning the "occurrence of fire in a vehicle during 

the fatal accident". 

The variable is coded for virtually each and every vehicle in 

the file, with very few unknowns; however, there is relatively 

little, if any, additional information concerning the fire, its 

origin, and its temporal or possibly causal links to accident 

attributes. 

In spite of such limitations the FARS data are very much worth 

reviewing, because of the gravity of fatal accidents, the broad 

coverage and bulk offered by the file in the twelve calendar 

years of its operation, and because of the coverage of several 

important accident, and vehicle attributes, notwithstanding the 

absence of solid links with fire occurrence. 

For these reasons, several cross-sections of fire related FARS 

data will be presented in the following tables and will be 

discussed later. 

The leading descriptor we shall apply to indicate the 

propensity of a MV to fire during a fatal accident is the rate 

of vehicles with fire occurrence per 100 fatal accident 

involved vehicles. This measure is closely related to the* odds 

of MV fire eruption, given a fatal accident involvement for the 

vehicle in question. 

The national average fire rate in the fatal accidents of the 

last 10 years, say 1977-1986, is about 2.67 for all motor 

vehicles, and 2.42 for cars, per 100 involved in these fatal 

accidents. A more detailed breakdown by major motor vehicle 

category (bodytype) is shown in Table 11. 

For the full twelve years of FARS operation, 1975-1986, the 

national average fire rates are: 2.61 for all MV and 2.35 for 

cars, per 100 fatal accident involved vehicles. These rates 

may be resolved by calendar year as shown in Table 12. 
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In this table we divide all motor vehicles into Cars and Other 

MV. In each category we report counts for fire occurrence, in 

conjunction with counts for all fatal accident involvements, 

irrespective of fire. Further, we calculate fire rates per 100 

fatal accident involved vehicles. These rates are shown in the 

last three columns of the table, for cars, other MV, and all 

MV. 

In view of a possible role of fuel volatility in MV fires, we 

resolve fire rates by month of the year and by State, so that 

possible seasonal and regional effects can be examined. The 

results of these resolutions are given in Tables 13 and 14, 

with a display format identical to that discussed in connection 

with Table 12. 

Because of scope limitations in this study, further resolution 

of MV fire rates will be addressed for cars only. This 

includes resolution by crash attributes, such as crash type 

(single vehicle, multi-vehicle crash, or no crash), principal 

point of impact, and rollover occurrence; and resolution by 

principal car attributes such as model year, market class, make 

and, whenever appropriate, model. 

Car fire association with crash attributes is shown in Table 15 

at several levels of resolution, as a function of the crash 

attributes mentioned above. For each entry, this table gives 

the frequency of occurrence of the fatal event represented by 

the entry, the count of cars with fire, the count with no fire, 

and the rate of fire per 100 total. 

The sensitivity of car fire rates to car model year, market 

class, car make, and car model is addressed in Tables 16, 17, 

18, and 19 respectively. Also, the fire rates in these tables 

are given as a function of the fatal crash type, and are 

accompanied by standard errors, so that determinations of 

statistically significant differences across various entries 

can be facilitated. 

The FARS data/ by file definition, are biased and thus 

inappropriate for a consideration of casualties other than 

fatalities. By the same token the FARS data are the most 

qualified for addressing fatalities, and the rate of fatalities 

in cars with fire per 100 total fatalities, irrespective of 

fire. 

Fatality counts in FARS cars, with and without fire occurrence, 

are shown in Table 20 as a function of calendar year from 1975 

to 1986. The same table also presents the rate of car occupant 

fatalities in cars with fire per 100 total fatalities, 

irrespective of fire. 
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3. Motor Vehicle Fires in State Accident Records 

In this section we describe briefly the additional data bases 

addressed in this investigation concerning motor vehicle fire 

experience, as reported in the accident records of Michigan 

(1978-1984), Maryland (1978-1984), Ohio (1981-1984), and 

Pennsylvania (1978-1984). These States and calendar years were 

selected on the basis of availability, and contents relevant to 

this investigation. 

Detailed data on motor vehicle fires in the State of Michigein 

are shown in Tables 21 to 31-b of the Appendix. Tables 32 to 

38 of the same Appendix give detailed data for the State of 

Maryland. Furthermore, data on car fires in the State of Ohio 

are shown in Tables 39 to 41, while Tables 42 to 42-c address 

relevant data from the State of Pennsylvania. 

4. Fires Associated with Motor Vehicle Component Failures 

Data concerning motor vehicle fire association with motor 

vehicle component failures, as well as concerning the frequency 

of failures of fuel system related components on the road, were 

retrieved from the NHTSA/ODI public files, used by NHTSA for 

motor vehicle defect investigations. 

The file that provided most of the material for analysis in 

this work is that of NHTSA/ODI records of motor vehicle owner 

complaints, concerning component failures and related hazards 

and accidents. A good description of the nature and contents 

of this file is provided by Tables 44 to 49 in the Appendix. 

Table 50 in the same Appendix is a summary of data concerning 

fire occurrence associated with motor vehicle component 

failures, and of data concerning the outcome of such failures. 

Detailed data presentations are made in Tables 51 to 69. 
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PART B. MOTOR VEHICLE FIRE ISSUES 

In Part A of this report we discussed briefly the origins of 

detailed data and results presented in the Tables of the 

Appendix. That discussion was keyed to the files of accident 

and defect records used in this investigation. This part here 

cuts across several or all files and is keyed on issues and 

questions concerning motor vehicle fires, as discussed 

individually in the following sections. 

1. The Odds of Motor Vehicle Fire 

The odds of car or other motor vehicle fire are quantitatively 

evaluated in this work by a calculation of the proportional 

rate of car fire occurrence per 1,000 accident involved cars, 

or per 100 fatal accident involved cars, if fire occurs in a 

fatal car accident. 

The majority of the tables in the Appendix report values for 

the odds of fire, evaluated on the basis of data of various 

origins, and resolved by several parameters relevant to motor 

vehicle accidents and fires, and their outcomes. 

A summary of the odds of car fires, in the form of car fire 

rates, is given in Table 43 for police reported fires in 

various States and in the nationally representative NASS. 

Focusing on entries for all fires, we see values ranging from . 

2.2 to 3.7 per 1,000 accident involved cars. 

Fire occurrence in motor vehicles, irrespective of accident 

occurrence, may be much higher. See for instance Table 50, 

Item a, where a rate of 2.83 fires is reported per 100 motor 

vehicle component failures. 

Note that this rate is not only exclusive of crash induced 

fires, but also about 10 times higher than the rate quoted 

above for accident involved cars. However, the reader should 

also ponder the possibility of motor vehicle component failures 

being over-reported when they are associated with fire. 

Fire occurrence in fatal accidents also takes place at higher 

rates than in police reported accidents. This higher rate, 

about 2.5 per hundred as shown in Table 11, is an order of 

magnitude higher than the rate in police reported accidents of 

all severities. 
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2. Annual Incidence of Car Fires Nationwide 

The NASS national estimate of annual car fire incidence is of 

course representative, but also rather uncertain as it is based 

on a relatively small sample. Alternative estimates are 

possible on the basis of State accident records. Individual 

States may not always be nationally representative, but they 

offer the bulk of data needed for a national projection. We 

shall use several State files to minimize the risks of nonrepresentativeness. 

We make projections based on two figures: one is a State's rate 

of car fires; and the second figure is the NASS estimate of 

accident involved cars, about 7,500,000 per year. The results 

of these projections are shown in the last column of Table 43. 

In this column we see that the annual incidence of car fires, 

in police reported accidents nationwide, ranges between 16,000 

and 26,000. This range reflects not only statistical 

fluctuations but also State to State variations of fire and 

accident definitions. 

At the same time it should be recognized that this range, 

although applicable to police reported car fires, may be a 

serious underestimate of all motor vehicle related fires. Not 

all car fires, whether accident related or not, are reported in 

police accident records. 

Examples are car fires occuring in gas stations, service 

stations, or private roadways. In addition, motor vehicle 

authorities, such as insurance, record car fires that are not 

necessarily reported by the police, even when reported to the 

police. Moreover, many car accidents, some of which may be car 

fires, go entirely unreported. 

A NHTSA study, (The Economic Cost of Motor Vehicle Accidents, 

January 1983), has addressed and estimated the annual incidence 

of all accident involved cars in all these cases at about 

35,000,000 per year, 7,500,000 of which are police reported 

according to the NASS national estimate, and the rest are 

either reported elsewhere, or entirely unreported. 

No estimate is available for the proportional rate of fires in 

the case of car accidents beyond those reported by the police. 

However we may establish an upper bound by using the average of 

about 3 per thousand used earlier. Under this assumption, the 

annual incidence of car fires in the U.S. may be as high as 

105,000 irrespective of severity, or reporting threshold. 

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3. Injury and Injury Outcome Rates and Severity 

Irrespective of whether car fires are associated with higher 

crash severities, the injury rates of occupants in cars with 

fire are very substantially higher than those of occupants in 

cars with no fire. This is evident in Table 7 with injury 

severity resolution, and in Table 8 with resolution for injury 

outcome. 

There is evidence that this disparity is to a good part due to 

the fire, and not to a possibly higher crash severity that 

might be associated with the fire. See examples of this 

evidence in Tables 25 and 26, where fire/no fire injury rates 

are compared under comparable crash severities. More evidence 

on this issue is discussed next, in connection with the rates, 

severity, and outcome of occupant burns. 

4. Frequency, Severity, and Outcome of Occupant Burns 

Based on detailed data from Pennsylvania accident records in 

the three years 1982-1984, the number of accident involved car 

occupants was about one million. About 62% of these were 

uninjured; 0.085% sustained burns as their most severe injury, 

while the balance of about 38% had other types of injury as 

their most severe injury. People with burns as a proportion of 

all injured are about 0.222% . 

Inspite of the smallness of these proportions, the national 

estimates of car occupants with burns and of car occupant 

fatalities due to burns are by no means small. Using the NASS 

national estimate of about 12,000,000 accident involved car 

occupants per year and the 0.085% proportion quoted above for 

those who sustain burns, we arrive at 10,200 car occupants with 

burns, as the most severe injury, per year nationwide. 

The severity of these burns and their outcome are also 

noteworthy, as shown in the following percent distributions of 

injured people by gravity of outcome, according to the type of 

the most severe injury. These results also are based on the 

earlier referenced data from Pennsylvania accident records in 

the three years 1982-1984, where the number of accident 

involved car occupants was about one million. 
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Column Percent by 

Injury Type 

Injury 

Severity 

Fatal 

Major 

Moderate 

Minor 

Unknown 

Burns 

12.6 

8.1 

20.2 

53,8 

5.3 

Other 

1.2 

4.8 

26.0 

67.0 

1.0 

Total 100.0 100.0 

We have also addressed these distributions based on a larger 

pool of data, namely about 2,200,000 accident involved car 

occupants in Pennsylvania during 1978 to 1984. The joint, 

injury type/injury severity distribution for these occupants is 

shown in Table 42-b. In addition Tables 42 and 42-a show 

similar joint distributions for occupants of all (as opposed to 

cars only) motor vehicles. These are limited to calendar year 

1984 only, but show essentially very similar results. 

5. Fire and Burns Related Car Occupant Fatalities 

A census of fire related car occupant fatalities in the U.S. by 

year, during 1975 to 1986, is shown in Table 20. These fire 

related fatalities, about 1,000 per year, occur at a rate of 

about 4 per 100 fatalities in general. Based on data shown in 

Tables 42-b and 20, we conclude that over 60%, or more than 600 

of these fatalities occur as a result of burns. 

»We reach this conclusion by noting: (a) that about 2.38 percent 

of all car occupant fatalities are burns related, as shown in 

Table 42-b; and (b) that there are about 25,500 car occupant 

fatalities per year, in general, as shown in Table 20 for the 

same 1978-1984 averaging period. This may represent a lower 

bound, as indicated by an alternative way of estimating the 

count of burns induced car occupant fatalities. 

According tb Table 42-b, about 12.7% of all car occupants, with 

burns as their most severe injury, die. Moreover, in the last 

section we estimated the number of car occupants with burns as 

their most severe injury to be about 10,200 per year 

nationwide. It follows that the number of burns related 

fatalities may be as high as 1295 per year. 

Note that there is no basic inconsistency between this 1295 

estimate and the FARS census count of about 1000 fire related 
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fatalities per year, if we take into account the fact that FARS 

like several other accident records may underestimate the count 

of fires in car accidents, as a result of coding protocol. 

6. Year to Year, Seasonal, and Regional Variations 

Year to year variations of fire rates are shown in Table 12 for 

fatal accident involved motor vehicles, in Table 20 for car 

occupant fatalities, and in Tables 22 and 33 and 42-c for 

accident involved cars in the States of Michigan, Maryland, and 

Pennsylvania, respectively. 

In principle, we expect the year to year variations of fire 

rates to capture major influencing factors, such as car fuel 

system design and component changes due to model year turnover 

(whether related to FMVSS 301 or to EPA Evaporative Emission 

Control Requirements), and year to year variations of car 

travel exposure severity, or fuel volatility changes mandatcid 

by EPA or the States. 

It turns out that so many possibly counteracting influences, in 

the same melting pot with changing protocols for recording car 

accident fires, produce rather uneventful trends and allow no 

simple data interpretations, without extensive and elaborate 

analyses. 

Fire rates, whether for fatal accident involved cars or car 

occupant fatalities, show a definite rise of about 20% in the 

late 1970's, followed by a level behavior in the first half of 

the 1980's. A similarly rising trend is observed in the car 

fire rate in all accidents of the State of Maryland, Table 33. 

A stronger rising trend (by a factor of 2 between 1979 and 

1984) is observed in the case of car fires in all accidents of 

the State of Pennsylvania. However we do suspect that a major 

part of this trend may be due to changes in fire reporting 

protocols. 

For example, no such trend is observed in the State of 

Michigan, Table 22. In this case the overall fire rate remains 

virtually constant in the 1978-1984 period. Furthermore in 

this case, a very substantial reduction is observed in the rate 

of fuel leaks, irrespective of fire occurrence. 

Seasonal (e.g. temperature related) variations of fire rates 

are more pronounced and more consistent than year to year 

variations. This is evident in Table 13 for fatal accident 

involved cars, and in Table 34 for cars involved in all 
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accidents in the State of Maryland. This trend supports the 

thesis that fuel volatility may be playing an important role in 

motor vehicle fires. 

A similarly expected trend of fire rates by State, correlating 

with State annually averaged temperatures, is not easily 

observed, see Table 14. Such a trend may be masked by 

confounding factors such as the State to State variation of 

travel exposure severity. 

7. Sensitivity of Fire Rates to Motor Vehicle Category 

It is easily established, and all data sources are in 

agreement, that most motor vehicle categories other than cars 

have fire rates significantly higher than those of cars. This 

is evident in Table 11 concerning motor vehicle fires in fatal 

accidents nationwide, in Table 21 concerning motor vehicle 

fires in accidents of all severities in the State of Michigan, 

and similarly in Table 32 for all accidents in the State of 

Maryland. 

A summary of these rates is shown below, where the FARS fire 

rates are per 100 fatal accident involved vehicles, while the 

State rates are per 1000 vehicles involved in all accidents. 

MV Fire Rates in 

Motor Vehicle 

Category 

Cars 

PU and Vans 

Single Trucks 

Artie. Trucks 

Motorcycles 

All MV 

FARS 

2.4 

2.8 

4.4 

5.3 

2.0 

2.7 

Michigan 

2.2 

2.2 

4.3 

5.4 

2.0 

2.3 

Maryland 

2.3 

3.1 

5.3 

9.7 

3.0 

2.6 

On grounds of sensible speculation we could assign the 

situation observed above to: (a) higher accident severities for 

vehicles other than cars; (b) fires of external origin; and (c) 

less strict requirements for fuel system protection in such 

vehicles. 

Fire rates may show a substantial sensitivity to vehicle 

bodytype, as discussed above, but when cars only are 

considered, the fire rates are insensitive to car market class 

and origin of manufacture. The evidence of this is shown in 

Table 17. 
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8. Crash Mode and Crash Severity Effects on Car Fire Rates 

Detailed results for fatal accident involved cars, given in 

Table 15, show that the two crash modes associated with the 

highest rates of crash fires are the rear impact, at 6.40, and 

the rollover, at 3.65, as compared to 2.46 fires per 100 fatal 

accident involved cars, irrespective of crash mode. 

In spite of such high rates, however, rear impacts and rollover 

contribute relatively little to the nation's fatal accident car 

fires, due to the very low incidence of these crash events. As 

shown in Table 15, car rear impacts in fatal accidents have a 

frequency of 4.5% and account for about 11.8% of all car fires. 

The numbers for rollover are 15.3% and 22.8% respectively. 

The balance of car fires, over 66%, occur in association with 

crash modes that are neither rear impacts, nor rollovers, but 

are distributed over a large number of other crash modes, each 

having a fire occurrence rate about 2.3 per 100. 

This significant finding is contrary to a popular notion that 

car fires are associated primarily with rear impacts, and it 

points in the direction of omnidirectional protection 

reguirements for car fuel systems. Very similar results are 

evident in Table 23 concerning the sensitivity of car fire 

rates to the crash mode in all accidents of the State of 

Michigan. 

Another popular notion, that car fires are associated primarily 

with high crash severities, is also found unjustified, based on 

evidence shown in Table 6 for NASS cars, and especially in 

Table 24 for cars involved in all accidents in the State of 

Michigan. 

As seen in Table 24, the high crash severities responsible for 

high fire rates are associated with low frequencies of 

occurrence. Consequently the majority of car fires, over 55%, 

occur at crash severities not exceeding TAD 5. Moreover, a 

large proportion of fires occur at zero crash severity, as noncrash or pre-crash fires. 

9. The Influence of Model Year and Car Age on Car Fire Rates 

Resolution of car fire rates by model year is expected to help 

in the identification of trends that might be associated with 

significant design changes in the car fuel systems. Two types 

of such changes may arise from: (a) the EPA mandated 
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evaporative emission control requirements, for implementation 

with model years starting circa 1970; and (b) the FMVSS 301 

requirements in their most comprehensive version, for 

implementation with model years starting circa 1975. 

In addition, major design changes of fuel systems may have 

taken place between the second half of the 1970's and the first 

half of the 1980's, when all major manufacturers redesigned 

their car fleets for fuel economy purposes. 

In addressing the possible effects of the mentioned changes on 

car fire rates we have examined, with model year resolution, 

the fatal accident experience of MY 66-86 cars, in the 1975-

1986 accident years. The results of this examination are shown 

in Table 16. We also have examined the MY 66-84 car fire 

experience during calendar years 1978 to 1984, in all accidents 

of Michigan, Maryland, and Ohio, with results shown in Tables 

27, 35, and 39, respectively. 

In the case of fatal accident involved cars, the fire rate 

appears to increase steadily between model years 66 and 75. An 

increase about 60% is evident over this time period. 

Furthermore, it appears that this trend is arrested in MY post75, with a 20% decline between MY 75 and MY 82, followed by a 

20% rise again in MY post-82. 

In view of the statistical errors stated in Table 16, all MY 

post-75 variation may be due to statistical fluctuations. 

However the MY 66-75 rise is substantial and significant. It 

is not clear at this point whether this substantial increase is 

associated with implementation of evaporative emission 

controls. However, the elimination of this trend and the 

possible reduction of the fire rate in MY post 1975 is 

consistent with FMVSS 301 implementation. 

In the case of fires associated with all car accidents, the 

rates appear to fluctuate a little in MY pre-75, but to 

decline very much in MY post-75. This strong trend is evident 

in all three States: Michigan, Maryland, and Ohio, as may be 

seen in Tables 27, 35, and 39, respectively. In all three 

cases also the rates fluctuate relatively little in the 10 

model years preceeding 1975, with possible peaks around the 

middle of this range. 

When a series of model years, such as 66 to 84, is addressed in 

a range of calendar years, such as 78 to 84, cars of recent 

model years are also cars of a lower age, and conversely. 

Given that car age (i.e. the calendar year minus model year 

difference) may significantly affect the fire rate, we have 

addressed the fire rates of car subfleets where car age is 

limited in a relatively narrow range. 
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Results from these analyses are shown in Tables 28-a and 28-b 

for Michigan, and in Tables 36 and 40 for Maryland and Ohio 

respectively. These results do not address a significant 

number of MY pre-75 cars, due to car age and calendar year 

limitations. However, the results address fire rates for MY 

post-75 cars, under controlled car age conditions, and clearly 

show two important points. 

First, they confirm the sharp decline of car fire rates as 

discussed above for MY post-75; and second the results, either 

for individual model years, or for all model years combined, 

show the very strong influence of car age on the fire rates. 

The results and conclusions presented above are very tentative, 

as more thoughtful and better controlled analyses would be 

reguired in order to arrive at more definitive answers to the 

questions of sensitivity of car fire rates to car model year 

and car age. 

10. Crash, Pre-Crash, and Non-Crash Fires 

As a matter of general definition, a car fire is characterized 

as a crash fire when a crash takes place in the absence of a 

fire, and the fire erupts at any stage post crash initiation. 

Implicit in this definition is the idea that the fire is caused 

by the crash. 

The opposite holds for pre-crash fires, where a car fire erupts 

first and an accident, most usually a crash, happens next, with 

a strong causal link to the fire. A third possibility exists, 

namely a non-crash car fire, where a fire erupts but no crash 

takes place at all. 

Neither the FARS nor the NASS records make any categorical 

distinction of fires in the categories mentioned above. 

However, three of the State accident records used in this 

investigation, namely the records of Maryland, Ohio, and 

Pennsylvania make certain distinctions that deserve attention. 

The Maryland records, as may be seen in Tables 32 to 35 

characterize a fire as the principal cause or not the principal 

cause of the accident associated with the fire. This is of 

course a judgement call of the accident investigating police 

officer, but nevertheless is useful information. 

Based on data given in the mentioned tables, cars with fires 

that are blamed as the principal cause, as opposed to a 

consequence, of Maryland car accidents with fire represent 

about 58% of all car fires. 
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Motor vehicle, and specifically car fires in the State of Ohio 

are characterized as "Due to Crash" and "Other", as may be seen 

in Tables 39 to 41. Presumably the characterization "Other" 

includes both pre-crash and non-crash fires. The proportion of 

these "Other" car fires is estimated from table 39 at 49% of 

all car fires 

Every vehicle involved in an accident in the State of 

Pennsylvania is associated with up to three events: Event 1, 2, 

and 3, presumably in temporal sequence. In the majority of the 

records, only up to two events are recorded. Each of these 

events assumes values from a long list that includes, in 

addition to "Fire" and "Explosion", all other conceivable 

events in a MV accident. 

Accordingly in the Pennsylvania records it is possible to 

distinguish whether a fire preceeded or followed a crash or 

other accident events, depending on whether fire is the first 

or the second or subsequent event. 

Based on the data shown in Table 42-c, the proportion of car 

fires where the fire was the first event is between 65% and 70% 

of all car fires, depending on specifics. This may represent 

the proportion of all pre-crash and non-crash fires in 

Pennsylvania. 

11. Owner Experience with Motor Vehicle Fires 

Table 50 in the Appendix is a summary of motor vehicle owner 

experience with component failures that lead one way or another 

to a fire. The vehicles in this case are cars and other light 

vehicles such as pickups and vans used for personal 

transportation. The data source is the NHTSA/ODI file of MV 

Owner complaints, with about 210,000 records of interest here. 

Item a in Table 50 shows the rate of fire occurrence as about 

2.8% of all cases where a component fails. Subsequent items 

show that the outcomes of component failures are much more 

serious when a fire occurs, in association with a component 

failure. 

12. Fuel System Failures 

Based on data in the NHTSA/ODI files concerning MV non-crash or 

pre-crash situations, the fuel system, whether cited as a 

system or by specific component, is one of the most frequently 

associated with defects or failures, irrespective of fire 
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eruption. Relevant data are shown in Table 54 of the Appendix. 

Furthermore, the same table also shows that the proportional 

rate of fire eruption, given a direct fuel system failure, is 

about three times higher than the average for all system 

failures. 

The frequency of fuel system failures, in comparison to all 

other MV component failures, has been addressed on the basis of 

data reported in four different sources as summarized below, 

for cars, light trucks, and other light vehicles used in 

personal transportation: 

— Fuel System Failures 

NHTSA/ODI File Count % of All Components 

45181 

11977 

428 

219 

18.9 

17.6 

21.1 

21.2 

MV Owner Complaints 

Mfrs' Tech. Serv. Bulletins 

MV Recall Campaigns 

MV Defect Investigations 

It is evident in these results that the proportional rate of 

fuel system failures with respect to all MV component failures 

is about 20% , irrespective of the source of data. Failure 

rates are of course sensitive to many factors. 

Results on sensitivity to MV make are summarized in Tables 70, 

71, 72, and 73 concerning the four entries shown in the table 

above, respectively. Sensitivity to model year or to specific 

model is shown on Tables 61 or 63, concerning the proportional 

rate of fuel system failures, based on owner complaints. In 

all these tables the rate in question is found to vary by a 

factor as large as four. 

Further resolution of the general "Fuel System" category into 

specific components, including fuel emission control 

components, has not been particularly encouraging in this 

study. The primary difficulty arises from coding 

generalizations, in which particular fuel system subcategories 

are often subsumed by more general categories. 

In order to see this difficulty refer to Table 74 in the 

Appendix. This table lists all the fuel related components, 

that failed in the experience of MV owners, by code, decoded 

name, count, and percent distribution. 

Given that all specific subcategories are shown and that there 

is no overlap in this tabulation, one expects to see the 

general categories, say codes ending in four, five, or six 

zeros, relatively underpopulated in favor of the more specific 

subcategories that are stated in the table. Instead, the 

opposite is observed. 
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The distribution shown in Table 74 refers to fuel related 

component failures, irrespective of fire occurrence. Very 

similar results are obtained for failures of such components 

with fire occurrence, as may be seen in Table 75. 

Because of the substantial and unknown distortions of the 

mentioned distributions, this investigation finds it not 

feasible to obtain any detailed and definitive resolution of 

failing fuel systems into specific component failures, 

especially in cases with fire occurrence. 

Furthermore, for the same reasons, it is not feasible to 

adequately address the association of failing fuel emission 

contol components with MV makes, models, and model years. Note 

that, in cases with fire occurrence, there is also the 

additional difficulty of very limited sample sizes, as is 

evident in Entries 25 to 29 of Table 75. 

CONCLUSIONS 

The data bases and data addressed by this investigation are. 

generally adequate for a useful characterization of motor 

vehicle fires and for an evaluation of the factors that 

influence fire incidence, severity, and outcome. 

This investigation has addressed most of the issues and has 

answered most of the questions concerning motor vehicle fires, 

as discussed in Part B. However, the investigation did not 

produce detailed distributions of fuel system component 

failures and failure modes, especially in association with fire 

occurrence. 

The reasons for this difficulty are traced to coding 

generalizations of data concerning fuel system components, and 

to sample size limitations. For the same reasons it is 

concluded that the feasibility of an in-depth failure mode 

analysis of fuel emission control components, based on the data 

addressed here, is at best limited. 

The work that would be required to address these issues with 

higher expectations falls in two categories: (a) Further and 

deeper exploitation of the data at hand for a clarification of 

the role played by various fuel component failures in fire 

occurrence; and (b) Retrieval of additional data and execution 

of analyses seeking to correlate specific component and design 

characteristics of the fuel systems with fire experience on the 

road. 

Included under (a) above is a case by case examination and a 

review of narratives plus other contextual information in the 
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NHTSA ODI data files. This approach may overcome some of the 

limitations discussed earlier. A more promising approach is 

that of item (b) above. 

In this case, car and other light vehicle subfleets operating 

on U.S. roads would be categorized on the basis of generally 

available information, concerning generic components and 

designs of fuel sytems, and specifically of fuel emission 

control components. 

In addition, the on the road fire experience of the same 

vehicle categories would be characterized on the basis of 

accident records. Further analyses of these separate results 

would show whether there are any grounds for correlating 

specific component and design attributes of the fuel system 

with fire experience on the road. 
"Study of Motor Vehicle Fires" 

Appendix of Detailed Tables 

February 1988 

DRAFT 

Prepared by 

Data Link, Inc. 

Washington D.C. 
P.25 

"Study of Motor Vehicle Fires" 

Tables 1 to 10: Accident Data from the NASS 

Tables 11 to 20: Accident Data from the FARS 

Tables 21 to 31b: Accident Data from the State of Michigan 

Tables 32 to 38: Accident Data from the State of Maryland 

Tables 39 to 41: Accident Data from the State of Ohio 

Tables 42 to 42c: Accident Data fom the State of Pennsylvania 

Table 43: Summary of Car Fire Rates and Projections 

Tables 44 to 49: General Data from NHTSA/ODI Files on Motor 

Vehicle Owner Complaints 

Table 50: Summary Table Concerning Fires in the 

NHTSA/ODI Files (Owner Complaints) 

Tables 51 to 65: Detailed Data Concerning Records in the 

NHTSA/ODI Files (Owner Complaints) 

Tables 66 to 69: Summary Data from the NHTSA/ODI File of 

MV Manufacturer Tech Service Bulletins 

Table 70: 

Table 71: 

Frequency of Fuel System Component Failures 

in Motor Vehicle Owner Complaints 

Frequency of Fuel System Components Addressed 

in Motor Vehicle Mfrs' Technical Service 

Bulletins 

Table 72: 

Table 73: 

Tables 74, 75: 

Frequency of Fuel System Components Appearing 

in Motor Vehicle Recall Campaigns 

Frequency of Fuel System Component Appearing 

in NHTSA MV Defects Investigations 

Lists of Codes, Counts, and Distributions of 

Fuel Related Components in Owner Complaints 
$<*L 

Table 1. Classification of the 50,981,645 Motor Vehicles in the 

National Projection of the NASS Pool 1981-1985, According to 

NASS Fire Category and Towaway Status 

NASS Fire Category 

No Fire 

Minor Fire, 

Major Fire, 

Minor Fire, 

Major Fire, 

Started in Vehicle 

Started in Vehicle 

Started Externally 

Started Externally 

Motor Vehicle Towaway 

No Yes Unkn 

14247316 13331855 183169 

Fire^of Unknown Severity and Origin 

Unknown if Fire 

Missing Data 

Data Not Collected 

5174 

199 

3461 

1378 

651 

37320 

7540071 

486565B 

34973 

35544 

6886 

9165 

11158 

18358 

109549 

425101 

351 

0 

0 

0 

230 

3472 

69992 

44414 

Table 2. Annual Incidence of Motor Vehicle Fires in Conjunction 

with Towaway; National Projection of the 1981-1985 

NASS Average with Fully Redistributed Unknowns. 

NASS Fire Category 

No Fire 

Minor Fire, 

Major Fire, 

Minor Fire, 

Major Fire» 

Started in Vehicle 

Started in Vehicle 

Started Externally 

Started Externally 

Vehicle Towaway 

Fire of Unknown Severity and Origin 

All Motor Vehicle Fires 

No 

7334518 

2664 

102 

1782 

709 

i 335 

Yes 

2835683 

7396 

7400 

1434 

1908 

2398 

Total 

10170201 

10060 

7502 

3216 

2617 

2733 

5592 20536 26128 

All Motor Vehicles 7340110 2856219 10196329 
Table 3. Annual Incidence of Car Fires in Conjunction 

with Towaway; National Projection of the 1981-198! 

NASS Average with Fully Redistributed Unknowns. 

NASS Fire Category 

No Fire ! 

Minor Fire, Started in Car 

Major Fire, Started in Car 

Minor Fire, Started Externally 

Major Fire, Started Externally 

Fire of Unknown Severity and Origin 

Car Towaway 

No 

5064892 

1239 

75 

210 

0 

0 

Yes 

2211522 

5959 

5331 

1022 

1083 

1807 

Total 

7276414 

7198 

5406 

1232 

1083 

1807 

All Car Fires 1524 15202 16726 

All Cars 5066416 2226724 7293140 

Table 4. Five Year Pool of Raw Counts of Car Fires in 

Conjunction with Towaway; 1981-1985 NASS Pool. 

Car Towaway 

NASS Fire Category No Yes 

18511 

Started in Car 6 

Started in Car 2 

Started Externally 2 

Major Fire, Started Externally 0 

Fire of Unknown Severity and Origin 0 

No Fire 

Minor Fire, 

Major Fire, 

Minor Fire, 

All Car Fires 10 253 

Total 

33105 

99 

88 

21 

18 

27 

51616 

105 

90 

23 

18 

27 

263 

All Cars 18521 33358 51879 
P.28 

Table 5. Incidence of Car Fires by Magnitude in NASS 

as a Function of Car's General Area of Damage (GAD); 

General Area 

of Damage 

Front 

Side 

Rear 

Top 

1981-1985 

Car Fires, Column % 

None 

53.5 

30.4 

11.5 

4.6 

Minor 

77.1 

12.6 

6.6 

3.7 

Major 

49.3 

12.5 

26.6 

11.5 

Car Fire 

1,000 Ace 

Minor 

4.9 

1.4 

1.9 

2.7 

Rate per 

.Involv. 

Major 

1.5 

0.7 

3.8 

4.1 

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 3.4 1.6 

Table 6. Incidence of Car Fires by Magnitude in NASS as a 

Function of Car's Crash Severity (TAD); 1981-1985. 

Car Fires, Column % 

Extent of 

Deformation (TAD) 

1 (None) 

2 

3 , 4 

5 , 6 

7 , 8 (Max) 

9 (Unkn) 

None 

45.2 

28.4 

20.0 

3.5 

1.1 

1.8 

Minor 

27.7 

25.9 

30.4 

7.2 

6.1 

2.6 

Major 

12.6 

31.9 

21.5 

25.3 

1.4 

7.2 

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 
P.29 

Table 7. Injury Severity of Car Occupants in NASS Car Fires by 

Fire Occurrence and Magnitude; 1981-1985. 

Occupants, Column % 

by Fire Magnitude 

Max Injury 

Severity, MAIS 

Uninjured 

Unkn Sever. 

MAIS = 1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

Total 

None 

77.9 

3.5 

15.6 

2.0 

0.73 

0.13 

0.09 

0.04 

100.0 

Minor 

45.8 

14.0 

23.4 

9.3 

5.7 

0.56 

0.84 

0.31 

100.0 

Major 

61.2 

5.1 

16.5 

7.3 

3.8 

2.2 

1.5 

2.4 

100.0 

Table 8. Car Occupant Casualties in NASS Car Fires as a Function 

of Treatment/Mortality by Fire Occurrence and Magnitude; 

Treatment/Mortali ty 

Fatality 

Hospitalization 

Transport Sc Release 

Treatment, No Transp. 

No Treatment 

Occupants, Column V. 

by Fire Magnitude 

None 

0.24 

2.3 

8.1 

2.9 

86.4 

Minor 

2.9 

12.5 

20.3 

4.9 

59.5 

Major 

6.1 

11.7 

14.4 

1.0 

66.8 

Total 100.0 100.0 100.0 
P.30 

Table 9. Burns of Car Occupants for their Most Severe, Second, 

and Third Most Severe Injuries, as a Function of Car 

Fire Occurence and Magnitude; NASS 1981-1985. 

Car Fire Magnitude 

+. r H + 

! None ! Minor ! Major J 

1 j. + + 

Row Percent 5 83.90 i 2.23 ! 13.87 5 

7, of All Lesions ! 0.03 ! 0.72 i 6.57 '. 

+ . + + + 

Row Percent '. 89.96 ! 0.85 '. 9.19 ! 

•/. of All Lesions '. 0.10 ! 0.44 i 9.58 ! 

Row Percent ! 78.51 ! 0.00 ! 21.49 ! 

% of All Lesions 5 0.04 ! 0.00 ! 8.41 S 

+ — + + + 

1st Injury 

2nd Injury 

3rd Injury 

Table 10. Outcome of Injured Car Occupants* with Burns as the 

Most Severe Injury, as a Function of Fire Occurrence 

and Magnitude; NASS 1981-1985. 

Treatment/Mortality 

Injured, Column 7. 

by Fire Magnitude 

None Minor Major 

Fatality 6.8 

Hospitalization 15.8 

Transport & Release 20.4 

Treatment, No Transp. 4.1 

No Treatment 52.9 

Total 

45.7 

54.3 

37.6 

24.5 

16.6. 

13.4 

7.6 

100.0 100.0 100.0 
P.31 

Table 11. Counts of Motor Vehicles, with Fire and Total, based 

on the Ten Year 1977-1986 FARS National Census; 

Proportional Rates of Fire per 100 FARS Involved MV 

1977-1986 FARS Census 

Motor 

Vehicles 

Cars 

Vans 

Pickups 

Straight Trks 

Comb in. Trks 

Buses 

Motorcycl 

Other 

All 

es 

— MV 

w Fire 

8931 

488 

2609 

568 

2100 

27 

920 

476 

16119 

Counts — 

Total 

368925 

18406 

91876 

13035 

39700 

3248 

46498 

22477 

604165 

Rate 

per 100 

2.42 

2.65 

2.84 

4.36 

5.29 

0.83 

1.98 

2.12 

2.67 

Table 12. Calendar Year Resolution of Counts and Rates of 

Fires for Cars and Other MV, Involved in Fatal 

Accidents, in 1975-1986 

Fatal Accident Involved Motor Vehicles 

Cal. 

Year 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

80 

81 

82 

33 

84 

85 

86 

All 

Car 

w Fire 

744 

771 

832 

867 

978 

931 

1031 

859 

827 

841 

800 

965 

10446 

s 

No Fire 

37897 

37206 

39038 

40544 

39999 

39059 

38864 

34047 

33049 

34389 

34000 

35937 

444029 

Other 

w Fire 

508 

543 

673 

713 

796 

789 

778 

662 

593 

713 

683 

788 

8239 

MV 

No Fire 

17637 

18878 

21478 

23600 

24763 

24426 

23835 

22408 

22057 

23583 

24271 

24819 

271755 

Fire R 

Cars 

1.96 

2.07 

2.13 

2.14 

2.45 

2.38 

2.65 

2.52 

2.50 

2.45 

2.35 

2.69 

2.35 

ates p 

Other 

2.88 

2.88 

3.13 

3.02 

3.21 

3.23 

3.26 

2.95 

2.69 

3.02 

2.81 

3.17 

3.03 

er 100 

All 

2.25 

2.34 

2.49 

2.46 

2.74 

2.71 

2.89 

2.69 

2.58 

2.68 

2.55 

2.89 

2.61 
P.32 

Table 13. Month by Month Resolution of Counts and Rates of 

Fires for Cars and Other MV, Involved in Fatal 

Accidents, in 1975-1986 

Fatal Acci 

onth 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

All 

dent Invo 

Cars 

w Fire 

646 

590 

719 

837 

913 

928 

1047 

1007 

941 

978 

943 

897 

10446 

No Fire 

30710 

29308 

34162 

34575 

37552 

37937 

39958 

41032 

38496 

40498 

39092 

40705 

444029 

lved Motor Vehicles 

Other 

w Fire 

425 

442 

560 

603 

738 

870 

871 

953 

840 

757 

637 

543 

8239 

MV 

No Fire 

16407 

15812 

18522 

20562 

24794 

26769 

28419 

28690 

25422 

24406 

21354 

20594 

271755 

Fire Rates p 

Cars 

2.10 

2.01 

2.10 

2.42 

2.43 

2.45 

2.62 

2.45 

2.44 

2.41 

2.41 

2.20 

2.35 

Other 

2.59 

2.80 

3.02 

2.93 

2.98 

3.25 

3.06 

3.32 

3.30 

3.10 

2.98 

2.64 

3.03 

er 100 

All 

2.27 

2.29 

2.43 

2.61 

2.65 

2.78 

2.81 

2.81 

2.79 

2.67 

2.61 

2.35 

2.61 
Table 14. State by State Resolution of Counts and Rates of 

Fires for Cars and Other MV, Involved in Fatal 

Accidents, in 1975-1986 

Fatal Accident Involved Motor Vehicles 

Cars Other MV Fire Rates per 100 

U.S. 

State 

AL 

AK 

AZ 

AR 

CA 

CO 

CT 

DE 

DC 

FL 

GA 

HI 

ID 

IL 

IN 

IA 

KS 

KY 

LA 

ME 

MD 

MA 

MI 

MN 

MS 

MO 

MT 

NE 

NV 

NH 

NJ 

NM 

NY 

NC 

ND 

OH 

OK 

OR 

PA 

RI 

w Fire 

107 

19 

172 

130 

1545 

100 

113 

49 

9 

311 

378 

40 

27 

. 777 

288 

195 

118 

186 

208 

33 

100 

182 

421 

225 

139 

280 

34 

55 

39 

51 

254 

42 

510 

177 

34 

413 

250 

128 

392 

24 

No Fire 

9509 

785 

6593 

4356 

46054 

5281 

5039 

1296 

598 

26006 

13762 

1563 

1824 

19622 

10666 

5187 

4440 

7891 

8971 

1865 

6875 

8403 

18668 

6814 

6150 

10038 

1770 

2754 

2167 

1611 

12081 

3818 

24550 

14986 

1097 

18923 

7060 

5029 

20020 

1131 

w Fire 

68 

24 

216 

158 

1196 

155 

52 

23 

3 

239 

256 

8 

41 

371 

221 

169 

156 

126 

182 

25 

77 

78 

225 

191 

117 

265 

60 

80 

48 

22 

88 

90 

241 

139 

40 

263 

316 

149 

258 

16 

No Fire 

5327 

1015 

6571 

3966 

31030 

4447 

2422 

652 

235 

14256 

7747 

782 

2242 

9378 

6900 

3844 

3547 

4695 

6846 

1302 

3724 

3115 

8390 

4525 

4158 

6274 

2085 

2257 

1667 

986 

4422 

4033 

10010 

7236 

1009 

9229 

6246 

4281 

10442 

549 

Cars 

1.13 

2.42 

2.61 

2.98 

3.35 

1.89 

2.24 

3.78 

1.51 

1.20 

2.75 

2.56 

1.48 

3.96 

2.70 

3.76 

2.66 

2.36 

2.32 

1.77 

1.45 

2.17 

2.26 

3.30 

2.26 

2.79 

1.92 

2.0O 

1.80 

3.17 

2.10 

1.10 

2.08 

1.18 

3.10 

2.18 

3.54 

2.55 

1.96 

2.12 

Other 

1.28 

2.36 

3.29 

3.98 

3.85 

3.49 

2.15 

3.53 

1.26 

1.68 

3.30 

1.02 

1.83 

3.96 

3.20 

4.40 

4.40 

2.68 

2.66 

1.92 

2.07 

2.50 

2.68 

4.22 

2.81 

4.22 

2.88 

3.54 

2.88 

2.23 

1.99 

2.23 

2.41 

1.92 

3.96 

2.85 

5.06 

3.48 

2.47 

2.91 

All 

1.18 

2.39 

2.95 

3.46 

3.56 

2.62 

2.21 

3.70 

1 .44 

1.37 

2.95 

2.05 

1.67 

3.96 

2.90 

4.03 

3.43 

2.48 

2.47 

1.83 

1.67 

2.26 

2.39 

3.67 

2.48 

3.34 

2.44 

2.69 

2.27 

2.81 

2.07 

1.68 

2.17 

1.42 

3.51 

2.40 

4.25 

2.98 

2.13 

2.38 
P.34 

Table 14 (Cont'd) 

Fatal Accident Involved Motor Vehicles 

Cars Other MV Fire Rates per 100 

U.S. — 

State w Fire No Fire w Fire No Fire Cars Other All 

SC 167 8703 105 4354 1.92 2.41 2.08 

SD 41 1403 48 1223 2.92 3.92 3.39 

TN 258 11450 167 6306 2.25 2.65 2.39 

TX 786 32011 903 25653 2.46 3.52 2.93 

UT 16 2444 37 2298 0.65 1.61 1.12 

VT 31 1073 21 602 2.89 3.49 3.10 

VA 154 10025 130 5340 1.54 2.43 1.85 

WA 154 7703 117 4927 2.00 2.37 2.15 

WV 73 4230 67 2668 1.73 2.51 2.03 

WI 191 8529 133 4835 2.24 2.75 2.42 

WY 20 1205 59 1707 1.66 3.46 2.71 

All 10446 444029 . 8239 271755 2.35 3.03 2.61 
P.35 

Table 15. Counts and Rates of Fire for Fatal Accident Involved 

Cars as a Function of Crash Type, Rollover Occurrence, 

and Principal Point of Impact; FARS 1978 to 1986 

Car Roll Princ.Point Event 

Crash Type over of Impact Freq. 7. 

Non Crash — 5.9 

Single Veh — 37.6 

Multi-Veh — 56.5 

No 84.7 

Yes 15.3 

Front 58.9 

Side 22.2 

Rear 4.5 

Other 14.4 

Non Crash No 0.8 

Yes 5.1 

Single Veh No Front 21.0 

Side 5.5 

Rear 0.7 

Other 2.5 

Yes Front 3.2 

Side 1.2 

Rear 0.1 

Other 3.4 

Multi-Veh No Front 33.9 

Side 14.8 

Rear 3.5 

Other 2.0 

Yes Front 0.9 

Side 0.7 

Rear 0.2 

Other 0.6 

All All All 100.0 

Car C 

Fire 

428 

3419 

4252 

6255 

1844 

4300 

1524 

958 

1317 

85 

343 

1467 

567 

110 

201 

509 

145 

28 

392 

2145 

726 

764 

190 

179 

86 

56 

106 

8099 

ounts 

Total 

19065 

120611 

182112 

273109 

48679 

190102 

71612 

14002 

46072 

2668 

16397 

67826 

17619 

2080 

8130 

9963 

3784 

454 

10755 

109615 

48045 

10821 

6305 

2698 

2164 

647 

1817 

321788 

Fire Rate 

per 100 

2.20 

2.76 

2.28 

2.24 

3.65 

2.21 

2.08 

6.40 

2.78 

3.09 

2.05 

2.12 

3.12 

5.02 

2.41 

4.86 

3.69 

5.81 

3.52 

1.92 

1 .49 

6.59 

2.93 

6.22 

3.82 

7.97 

5.51 

2.46 
Table 16. Car Fire Rates per 100 Fatal Accident Involved Cars, 

and their Standard Errors, as a Function of Model 

Year, for Various Crash Types. 

Source: The FARS 1975-1986 

Car Fires per IOO FARS Cars, by Crash Type 

Cr 

Model 

Year 

66 

67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

30 

81 

82 

83 

84 

85 

86 

All 

Ra 

1.72 

1.94 

1.96 

2.08 

2.13 

2.34 

2.38 

2.26 

2.37 

2.90 

2.53 

2.50 

2.29 

2.62 

2.19 

2.02 

2.06 

2.28 

2.28 

2.50 

2.53 

ERa 

0.23 

0.20 

0.16 

0.14 

0.13 

0.13 

0.11 

0.10 

0.10 

0.12 

0.10 

0. 10 

0.10 

0.11 

0.11 

0.12 

0.14 

0.17 

0.17 

0.22 

0.34 

Single 

Rs 

1.58 

1.95 

2.30 

2.29 

2.32 

2.33 

2.42 

2.39 

2.41 

3.28 

2.70 

2.61 

2.44 

2.55 

2.46 

2.31 

2.59 

2.24 

2.53 

2.74 

2.47 

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ERs 

0.31 

0.29 

0.26 

0.22 

0.20 

0.19 

0.17 

0.15 

0.15 

0.19 

0.16 

0.15 

0.15 

0.16 

0.18 

0.21 

0.25 

0.27 

0.28 

0.36 

0.51 

Multi 

Rm 

1.85 

1.86 

1.61 

1.85 

1.92 

2.32 

2.28 

2.15 

2.29 

2.57 

2.38 

2.39 

2.14 

2.63 

1.98 

1.78 

1.69 

2.30 

2.09 

2.34 

2.50 

-Veh 

ERm 

0.33 

0.27 

0.20 

0.18 

0.17 

0.17 

0.14 

0.12 

0.13 

0.15 

0.13 

0.12 

0.12 

0.14 

0.14 

0.15 

0». 17 

0.22 

0.21 

0.28 

0.45 

All 2.35 0.03 2.50 0.04 2.21 0.04 
P.37 

Table 17. Car Fire Rates per 100 Fatal Accident Involved 

Cars, and their Standard Errors, by Car Market Class 

and Origin of Manufacture, for Various Crash Types. 

Sources FARS 1975-1986. 

Car Fires per 100 FARS Cars, by Crash Type 

Car 

Class 

Subc 

Subc 

Subc 

Comp 

Comp 

Comp 

Mid 

Std 

Orgn 

Dom 

Jpn 

Eur 

Dom 

Jpn 

Eur 

Dom 

Dom 

All 

Ra 

2.41 

2.12 

2.18 

2.35 

1.71 

2.37 

2.35^ 

2.25 

ERa 

0.09 

0.08 

0.13 

0.06 

0.45 

0.23 

0.07 

0.05 

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Rs 

2.21 

2.04 

1.78 

2.43 

1.33 

3.02 

2.58 

2.66 

e-Car 

ERs 

0.13 

0.11 

0.18 

0.09 

0.59 

0.38 

0.10 

0.09 

Mult 

Rm 

2.53 

2.18 

2.44 

2.26 

2.02 

1.72 

2.15 

1.93 

i-Veh 

ERm 

0.12 

0.10 

0.18 

0.07 

0.67 

0.28 

0.08 

0.06 

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Table 19. (Concluded) 

Car Fires per 100 FARS Cars, by Crash Type 

Car' s 

Model 

Celica 

Supra 

Cressida 

Carina 

Tercel 

Starlet 

Camry 

Triumph 

Volvo 

Mitsubishi 

Other 

All 

Class 

Subc 

Comp 

Comp 

Subc 

Subc 

Subc 

Comp 

Sprt 

Comp 

Subc 

Unci 

All 

All 

Ra 

1.39 

1.91 

2.43 

2.06 

1.16 

0.88 

0.80 

3.19 

2.04 

2.97 

3.04 

2.35 

ERa 

0.19 

0.85 

1.07 

1.44 

0.35 

0.88 

0.80 

0.70 

0.40 

1.69 

0.32 

0.03 

Singl 

Rs 

1.02 

1.97 

1.19 

O.OO 

0.54 

2.08 

0.00 

2.48 

2.01 

1.79 

2.49 

2.50 

e-Car 

ERs 

0.23 

1.13 

1.18 

0.00 

0.38 

2.06 

0.00 

0.87 

0.60 

1.77 

0.41 

0.04 

Mult 

Rm 

1.77 

1.82 

3.28 

4.08 

1.55 

0.00 

1.25 

3.96 

2.06 

4.44 

3.51 

S.S1 

i-Veh 

ERm 

0.31 

1.27 

1.61 

2.83 

0.51 

0.00 

1.24 

1.12 

0.54 

3.07 

0.48 

0.04 
Table 20. Counts and Rates of Car Occupant Fatalities in FARS 

by Fire Occurrence, in 1975-1986 

Fire Occurrence 

Calendar + + + 

Year ! No ! Yes ! Total 

75 ! 25022 ! 828 '. 25850 

; : 3.20 : 

H 1 H76 ! 25158 ! 932 ! 26090 

• i 3 • uJ7 i 

+ + H77 ! 25763 ! 939 ! 26702 

• i 3 . *J2 I 

+ + + 

78 ! 27027 ! 1022 \ 28049 

: : 3.64 : 

79 ! 26579 ! 1148 ! 27727 

4.14 i 

+ + + 

80 ! 26284 ! 1064 ! 27348 

• • 3.8 9 i 

+ _ + + 

81 ! 25401 ! 1125 ! 26526 

: : 4.24 : 

+ + .». 

82 ! 22115 ! 984 ! 23099 

! 4.26 ! 

1 + — + 

83 ! 21801 ! 950 ! 22751 

: : 4.18 : 

; H + _ — r 

84 S 22433 i 961 ! 23394 

: ; 4.11 : 

85 ! 22110 ! 888 I' 22998 

S i 3.86 ! 

+ + + 

86 ! 23605 ! llll i 24716 

! ! 4.50 ! 

+ + ._+ 

Total 293298 11952 305250 
P.44 

Table 21. Motor Vehicle Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Motor Vehicles, According to Fire and/or Fuel 

Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident Involved 

Vehicles, as a Function of Bodytype 

Leak or Fire Rates 

Motor Vehicle Counts per 1000 Total 

Body Freq — 

Type 7. (1) (2) (3) <4> Total <1> (2) (3) <5> 

Car 75.3 23030 4154 1467 2486379 2515030 9.2 1.7 0.6 2.2 

PU,Van 12.0 5044 611 276 393990 399921 12.6 1.5 0.7 2.2 

3 1.2 713 79 41 37883 38716 18.4 2.0 1.1 3.1 

4 1.6 1203 159 74 53170 54606 22.0 2.9 1.4 4.3 

5 1.5 3050 169 102 47315 50636 60.2 3.3 2.0 5.4 

6 8.5 5377 314 260 277270 283221 19.0 1.1 0.9 2.0 

All 100.0 38417 5486 2220 3296007 3342130 11.5 1.6 0.7 2.3 

(1) Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

(2) Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

(3) Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

<4) No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

(5) Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
Table 22. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire and/or Fuel 

Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident Involved 

Cars, as a Function of Calendar Year 

Motor Vehicle Counts 

Leak or Fire Rates 

per 1000 Total 

Cal. 

Year 

78 

79 

80 

82 

83 

84 

All 

( 1 ) 

5931 

4803 

3566 

2935 

3011 

3117 

23363 

(2) 

785 

771 

626 

650 

675 

703 

4210 

(3) 

386 

279 

229 

203 

187 

207 

1491 

(4) 

502032 

468154 

374318 

368965 

376468 

422189 

2512126 

Total 

509134 

474007 

378739 

372753 

380341 

426216 

2541190 

(1) 

11.6 

10.1 

9.4 

7.9 

7.9 

7.3 

9.2 

<2> 

1.5 

1.6 

1.7 

1.7 

1.8 

1.6 

1.7 

(3) 

0.8 

0.6 

0.6 

0.5 

0.5 

0.5 

0.6 

<5> 

2.3 

2.2 

2.3 

2.3 

2.3 

2.1 

2.2 

(1) Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

(2) Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

(3) Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

(4) No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

(5) Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
P.46 

Table 23. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire and/or 

Fuel Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident 

Involved Cars, as a Function of Impact Mode 

Leak or Fire Rates 

Car Counts per 1000 Total 

Freq 

7. (1) (2) (3) (4) Total (1) (2) (3) (5) 

1.5 3279 169 104 35068 38620 84.9 4.4 2.7 7.1 

28.9 5377 1383 4§8 727199 734427 7.3 1.9 0.6 2.5 

14.7 1604 453 144 370221 372422 4.3 1.2 0.4 1.6 

6.8 1256 217 69 172243 173785 7.2 1.2 0.4 1.6 

6.2 1028 151 71 155178 156428 6.6 1.0 0.5 1.4 

11.5 5865 338 240 286618 293061 20.0 1.2 0.8 2.0 

Rear 6.0 1331 161 71 150097 151660 8.8 1.1 0.5 1.5 

Side 7.2 1291 200 71 180500 182062 7.1 1.1 0.4 1.5 

Frnt 16.0 1652 430 155 403437 405674 4.1 1.1 0.4 1.4 

1. Rr 0.7 395 12 15 16676 17098 23.1 0.7 0.9 1.6 

Car 

Impact 

Mode 

No Impact 

Cntr Front 

Right Frnt 

Right Side 

Right Rear 

Cntr Rear 

Left 

Left 

Left 

Frnt 

All 100.0 23363 4210 1491 2512126 2541190 9.2 1.7 0.6 2.2 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

(5) 

Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
P.47 

Table 24. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire and/or 

Fuel Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident 

Involved Cars, as a Function of Crash Severity (TAD) 

Crash 

Sever. 

TAD 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

Freq 

y. 

3.3 

26.6 

26.1 

19.3 

11.8 

6.0 

2.7 

1.7 

2.4 

(1) 

70 

1210 

2150 

3371 

4173 

4168 

3602 

4276 

343 

Car Counts 

(2) 

87 

696 

675 

545 

463 

409 

354 

842 

139 

(3) 

27 

136 

168 

139 

137 

158 

160 

529 

37 

(4) 

84944 

674372 

660451 

486980 

293863 

147138 

64828 

38272 

61278 

Total 

85128 

676414 

663444 

491035 

298636 

151873 

68944 

43919 

61797 

per 1000 Tot 

(1) 

0.8 

1.8 

3.2 

6.9 

14.0 

27.4 

52.2 

97.4 

5.6 

(2) 

1.0 

1.0 

1.0 

1.1 

1.6 

2.7 

5.1 

19.2 

2.2 

(3) 

0.3 

0.2 

0.3 

0.3 

0.5 

1.0 

2.3 

12.0 

0.6 

al 

(5) 

1.3 

1.2 

1.3 

1.4 

2.0 

3.7 

7.5 

31.2 

2.8 

All 100.0 23363 4210 1491 2512126 2541190 9.2 1.7 0.6 2.2 

(1) Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

(2) Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

(3) Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

(4) No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

(5) Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
Table 25. Occupants of Cars with Fire; Michigan 1978-1984. 

Occupant Counts, According to Fire and/or Fuel 

Leak, and Injury Rates per 1000 Accident 

Involved Car Occupants, as a Function of 

Crash Severity (TAD), at (K+A+B) Injury Severities 

Counts of Injured Car Occupants 

Crash at K, A, or B Injury Severities 

Sever. Freq 

TAD 7. (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Total 

1 3.3 17 1 2 3 615 635 

2 26.6 56 12 8 20 6026 6102 

3 26.1 159 29 11 40 14215 144214 

4 5 31.1 1377 161 57 218 70244 71839 

6 7 8 10.4 6143 744 483 1227 89296 96666 

9 2.4 98 7 5 12 2440 2550 

Counts of All Car Occupants 

Crash 

Sever. 

TAD 

1 

2 

3 

4 5 

6 7 8 

9 

Freq 

% 

3.3 

26.6 

26.1 

31.1 

10.4 

2.4 

(1) 

70 

1210 

2150 

7544 

12046 

343 

Invo 

(2) 

87 

696 

675 

1008 

1605 

139 

lved 

(3) 

27 

136 

168 

276 

847 

37 

in Accidents 

(4) 

114 

832 

843 

1284 

2452 

176 

(5) 

84944 

674372 

660451 

780843 

250238 

61278 

Total 

85128 

676414 

663444 

789671 

264736 

61797 

Injury Rates of Car Occupants 

at K, A, or B Injury Severities 

TAD 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

(5) 

Crash 

Sever. 

TAD 

1 

2 

3 

4 5 

6 7 8 

9 

Freq 

•/• 

3.3 

26.6 

26.1 

31.1 

10.4 

2.4 

(1) 

242.9 

46.3 

74.0 

182.5 

510.0 

285.7 

Scale of Damage Severity: 

Severity; 9 

Vehicle wittUnknown. 

» No Fire, but 

Vehicle with Fire, 

Vehicle with » Fire, 

Fire, Irrespective 

No Fire, No 

per 1000 Involved in 

(2) 

11.5 

17.2 

43.0 

159.7 

463.6 

50.4 

l=None 

(3) (4) 

74.1 26.3 

58.8 24.0 

65.5 47.4 

206.5 169.8 

570.2 500.4 

135.1 68.2 

; 2-8 Increasi 

with Fuel Leak; 

Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

and wi 

of Fue 

Fuel Leak. 

th Fuel 

1 Leak, 

Leak; 

(2+3); 

Accidents 

(5) Total 

7.2 7.5 

8.9 9.0 

21.5 21.7 

90.0 91.0 

356.8 365.1 

39.8 41.3 

ng Damage 
Table 26. Occupants of Cars with Fire; Michigan 1978-1984., 

Occupant Counts, According to Fire and/or Fuel 

Leak, and Injury Rates per 1000 Accident 

Involved Car Occupants, as a Function of 

Crash Severity (TAD), at (K+A) Injury Severities 

Crash 

Sever. 

TAD 

1 

2 

3 

4 5 

6 7 8 

9 

Crash 

Sever. 

TAD 

1 

2 

3 

4 5 

6 7 8 

? 

Freq 

y. 

3.3 

26.6 

26.1 

31.1 

10.4 

2.4 

Freq 

y. 

3.3 

26.6 

26.1 

31.1 

10.4 

2.4 

Counts c 

(1) 

8 

16 

40 

379 

3317 

48 

f Inj 

at K or A I 

(2) 

— 

3 

7 

41 

422 

4 

Counts 

(1) 

70 

1210 

2150 

7544 

12046 

343 

Invo 

(2) 

87 

696 

675 

1008 

1605 

139 

(3) 

1 

2 

4 

21 

333 

3 

ured Car Occupants 

njury 

(4) 

1 

5 

11 

62 

755 

7 

of All Car 

lved 

(3) 

27 

136 

168 

276 

847 

37 

Severities 

(5) 

170 

1082 

2289 

13863 

35218 

740 

Occupant 

in Accidents 

(4) 

114 

832 

843 

1284 

2452 

176 

(5) 

84944 

674372 

660451 

780843 

250238 

61278 

Total 

179 

1103 

2340 

14304 

39290 

795 

5 

Total 

85128 

676414 

663444 

789671 

264736 

61797 

Crash 

Sever. 

TAD 

Freq 

y. 

Injury Rates of Car Occupants 

at K or A Injury Severities 

per 1000 Involved in Accidents 

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Total 

1 

2 

3 

4 5 

6 7 8 

9 

3.3 

26.6 

26.1 

31.1 

10.4 

2.4 

114.3 

13.2 

18.6 

50.2 

275.4 

139.9 

4.3 

10.4 

40.7 

262.9 

28.8 

37.0 

14.7 

23.8 

76.1 

393.2 

81.1 

6.0 

13.6 

48.3 

307.9 

39.8 

2.0 

1.6 

3.5 

17.8 

140.7 

12.1 

1.6 

3.5 

18.1 

148.4 

12.9 

TAD Scale of Damage Severity: l=None; 2-8 Increasing Damage 

Severity; 9 Unknown. 

(1) Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

(2) Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

(3) Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

(4) Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3); 

(5) No Fire, No Fuel Leak. 
Table 27. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire and/or Fuel 

Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident Involved 

Cars, as a Function of Model Year 

Leak or Fire Rates 

Car Motor Vehicle Counts per 1000 Total 

Model Freq • 

Year 7. (1) (2) (3) (4) Total (1) (2) (3) (5) 

Pre-66 2.1 855 105 44 53161 54165 15.8 1.9 0..8 2.8 

66 0.7 432 41 17 17470 17960 24.1 2.3 0..9 3.2 

67 1.1 602 46 32 27427 28107 21.4 1.6 1,1 2.8 

68 1.8 975 93 46 45744 46858 20.8 2.0 1.0 3.0 

69 2.5 1242 138 66 61536 62982 19.7 2.2 1.0 3.2 

70 3.4 1587 158 78 83646 85469 18.6 1.8 0„9 2.8 

71 4.5 1846 216 99 111501 113662 16.2 1.9 0.9 2.8 

72 6.5 2333 332 143 163006 165814 14.1 2.0 0,9 2.9 

73 8.0 2431 442 152 201389 204414 11.9 2.2 0.7 2.9 

74 7.5 1970 430 134 189087 191621 10.3 2.2 0.7 2.9 

75 6.6 1401 310 103 167158 168972 8.3 1.8 0.6 2.4 

76 8.9 1657 339 113 224895 227004 7.3 1.5 0.5 2.0 

77 11.1 1696 374 120 279254 281444 6.0 1.3 0.4 1.8 

78 10.7 1512 395 115 269955 271977 5.6 1.5 0.4 1.9 

79 8.2 1146 294 90 207659 209189 5.5 1.4 0.4 1.8 

80 5.2 586 180 47 131884 132697 4.4 1.4 0.4 1.7 

81 3.8 426 125 31 96264 96846 4.4 1.3 0.3 1.6 

82 3.1 287 93 26 78279 78685 3.6 1.2 0.3 1.5 

83 2.3 200 59 21 59192 59472 3.4 1.0 0.4 1.3 

84 1.6 168 38 14 41177 41397 4.1 0.9 0.3 1.3 

All 100.0 23363 4210 1491 2512126 2541190 9.2 1.7 0.6 2.2 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

(5) 

Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

VehiclV with Fire, Unknown if" Fuel Leak; 

Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
P.51 

Table 28-a. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire and/or Fuel 

Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident Involved 

Cars, as a Function of Model Year and Car Age 

Leak or Fire Rates 

Car Motor Vehicle Counts per 1000 Total 

Model Freq 

Year % (1) (2) (3) (4) Total (1) (2) (3) (5) 

0 to 5 Year Old Cars 

73 4.0 666 94 40 56760 57560 11.6 1.6 0.7 2.3 

74 6.5 920 169 59 91834 92982 9.9 1.8 0.6 2.5 

75 7.1 793 176 66 101607 102642 7.7 1.7 0,6 2.4 

76 9.2 884 178 61 131574 132697 6.7 1.3 0.5 1.8 

77 14.1 1174 247 90 202402 203913 5.8 1.2 0.4 1.7 

78 16.0 1271 323 97 229107 230798 5.5 1.4 0.4 1.8 

79 14.5 1146 294 90 207659 209189 5.5 1.4 0.4 1.8 

80 9.2 586 180 47 131884 132697 4.4 1.4 0.4 1.7 

81 6.7 426 125 31 96264 96846 4.4 1.3 0.3 1.6 

82 5.5 287 93 26 78279 78685 3.6 1.2 0.3 1.5 

83 4.1 200 59 21 59192 59472 3.4 1.0 0.4 1.3 

84 2.9 168 38 14 41177 41397 4.1 0.9 0.3 1.3 

All 100.0 8532 1978 642 1430181 1441333 i.9 1.4 0.4 1.8 

0 to 3 Year Old Cars 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

80 

81 

82 

83 

84 

All 

4.2 

10.2 

17.1 

15.8 

13.6 

10.2 

10.1 

8.2 

6.2 

4.3 

100.0 

320 

642 

949 

823 

688 

406 

426 

287 

200 

168 

4920 

66 

131 

192 

186 

176 

129 

125 

93 

59 

38 

1197 

30 

45 

68 

67 

63 

33 

31 

26 

21 

14 

398 

39819 

97288 

162779 

150532 

129351 

97279 

96264 

78279 

59192 

41177 

954402 

40235 

98106 

163988 

151608 

130278 

97847 

96846 

78685 

59472 

41397 

960917 

8.0 

6 . wi 

5.8 

5.4 

5.3 

4.1 

4.4 

3.6 

3.4 

4.1 

5.1 

1.6 

1.3 

1.2 

1.2 

1.4 

1.3 

1.3 

1.2 

1.0 

0.9 

1.2 

0.7 

0.5 

0.4 

0.4 

0.5 

0.3 

0.3 

0.3 

0.4 

0.3 

0.4 

2.4 

1.8 

1.6 

1.7 

1.8 

1.7 

1.6 

1.5 

1.3 

1.3 

1.7 

(1) Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

(2) Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

(3) Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

(4) No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

(5) Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
Table 28-b. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Rates of Car Fires per 1000 Accident Involved 

Cars, as a Function of Model Year and Car Age 

Fire Rates per 1000 

Accident Involved Cars 

by Car Age 

Model 

Year 

re-66 

66 

67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

80 

81 

82 

83 

84 

All 

2.8 

3.2 

2.8 

3.0 

3.2 

2.8 

2.8 

2.9 

2.9 

2.9 

2.4 

2.0 

1.8 

1.9 

1.8 

1.7 

1.6 

1.5 

1.3 

1.3 

< 6 Yrs 

—— 

2.3 

2.5 

2.4 

1.8 

1.7 

1.8 

1.8 

1.7 

1.6 

1.5 

1.3 

1.3 

< 4 Yrs 

———— — 

2.4 

1.8 

1.6 

1.7 

1.8 

1.7 

1.6 

1.5 

1.3 

1.3 

All 2.2 1.8 1.7 
P.53 

Table 29. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire and/or 

Fuel Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident 

Involved Cars, as a Function of Car Make 

Leak or Fire Rates 

Car Counts per 1000 Total 

Freq — 

Car Make 7. (1) (2) (3) (4) Total (1) (2) (3) (5) 

Am Motors 2.6 827 123 37 63984 64971 12.7 1.9 0.6 2.5 

Buick 7.6 1298 300 94 191133 192825 6.7 1.6 0.5 2.0 

Cadillac 2.4 330 112 19 60254 60715 5.4 1.8 0.3 2.2 

Chevrolet 22.8 5357 905 327 572256 578845 9.3 1.6 0.6 2.1 

Chrysler 2.7 496 117 49 68861 69523 7.1 1.7 0.7 2.4 

Dodge 5.1 1411 214 80 128051 129756 10.9 1.6 0.6 2.3 

Ford 17.4 4672 736 298 436947 442653 10.6 1.7 0.7 2.3 

Lincoln 1.1 146 53 18 27992 28209 5.2 1.9 0.6 2.5 

Mercury 4.9 1089 213 78 122756 124136 8.8 1.7 0.6 2.3 

Olds 9.6 1636 374 95 241888 243993 6.7 1.5 0.4 1.9 

Plymouth 6.2 1674 240 90 155895 157899 10.6 1.5 0.6 2.1 

Pontiac 9.2 1959 405 158 230178 232700 8.4 1.7 0.7 2.4 

Volkswag 1.8 581 131 41 44263 45016 12.9 2.9 0.9 3.8 

Othr Imp 5.0 1254 194 77 126285 127810 9.8 1.5 0.6 2.1 

Othr Dom 1.7 633 93 30 41383 42139 15.0 2.2 0.7 2.9 

All 100.0 23363 4210 1491 2512126 2541190 9.2 1.7 0.6 2.2 

(1) Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

(2) Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

(3) Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

(4) No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

(5) Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
Table 30. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire and/or 

Fuel Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident 

Involved Cars, as a Function of Car Make (MY Post-75) 

Leak or Fire Rates 

Car Make 

Am Motors 

Bu i c k 

Cadillac 

Chevrolet 

Chrysler 

Dodge 

Ford 

Lincoln 

Mercury 

Olds 

Plymouth 

Pontiac 

Vo1k swag 

Othr Imp 

Othr Dom 

Freq 

7. 

2.0 

7.6 

2.5 

22.6 

2.9 

4.7 

16.6 

1.3 

5.1 

10.0 

5.1 

9.4 

1.4 

6.8 

2.0 

(1) 

191 

386 

142 

1725 

221 

424 

1347 

68 

378 

60.1 

412 

651 

160 

638 

345 

Car 

(2) 

50 

130 

46 

400 

65 

97 

311 

28 

116 

156 

90 

187 

33 

125 

65 

Count 

(3) 

11 

39 

13 

139 

23 

31 

105 

6 

22 

41 

21 

66 

9 

39 

12 

s 

(4) 

27714 

106386 

35413 

313956 

40312 

64723 

230908 

17891 

71473 

138782 

71082 

130435 

18955 

94792 

28179 

Total 

27966 

106941 

35614 

316220 

40621 

65275 

232671 

17993 

71989 

139580 

71605 

131339 

19157 

95594 

28601 

per 

(1) 

6.8 

3.6 

4.0 

5.5 

5.4 

6.5 

5.8 

3.8 

5.3 

4.3 

5.8 

5.0 

8.4 

6.7 

12.1 

1000 Total 

(2) 

1.8 

1.2 

1.3 

1.3 

1.6 

1.5 

1.3 

1.6 

1.6 

1.1 

1.3 

1.4 

1.7 

1.3 

2.3 

(3) 

0.4 

0.4 

0.4 

0.4 

0.6 

0.5 

0.5 

0.3 

0.3 

0.3 

0.3 

0.5 

0.5 

0.4 

0.4 

(5) 

2.2 

1.6 

1.7 

1.7 

2.2 

2.0 

1.8 

1.9 

1.9 

1.4 

1.6 

1.9 

2.2 

1 .7 

2.7 

All 100.0 7689 1899 577 1391001 1401166 1.4 0.4 1.8 

(1) Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

(2) Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

(3) Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

(4) No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

(5) Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
Table 31-a. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire and/or 

Fuel Leak, and Incidence Rates per 1000 Accident 

Involved Cars, as a Function of Car Make (MY Post-80) 

Leak or Fire Rates 

Car Counts per 1000 Total 

Freq : 

Car Make */• (1) (2) (3) (4) Total (1) (2) (3) (5) 

Am Motors 2.1 43 15 3 8751 8812 4.9 1.7 0.3 2.0 

Buick 9.0 105 32 11 36844 36992 2.8 0.9 0.3 1.2 

Cadillac 2.3 33 9 1 9573 9616 3.4 0.9 0.1 1.0 

Chevrolet 20.8 340 115 25 85241 85721 4.0 1.3 0.3 1.6 

Chrysler 2.2 35 14 8 9034 9091 3.8 1.5 0.9 2.4 

Dodge 5.3 95 33 12 21469 21609 4.4 1.5 0.6 2.1 

Ford 14.9 261 64 20 60793 61138 4.3 1.0 0.3 1.4 

Lincoln 0.9 14 7 1 3659 3681 3.8 1.9 0.3 2.2 

Mercury 5.2 89 32 4 21235 21360 4.2 1.5 0.2 1.7 

Olds 9.5 135 39 12 39017 39203 3.4 1.0 0.3 1.3 

Plymouth 5.2 87 19 7 21250 21363 4.1 0.9 0.3 1.2 

Pontiac 8.9 113 44 19 36369 36545 3.1 1.2 0.5 1.7 

Volkswag 1.6 42 11 0 6695 6748 6.2 1.6 0.0 1.6 

Othr Imp 9.9 217 40 13 40342 40612 5.3 1.0 0.3 1.3 

Othr Dom 2.2 69 23 3 8966 9061 7.6 2.5 0.3 2.9 

All 100.0 1678 497 139 409238 411552 4.1 1.2 0.3 1.5 

(1) Vehicle with No Fire, but with Fuel Leak; 

(2) Vehicle with Fire, Unknown if Fuel Leak; 

<3) Vehicle with Fire, and with Fuel Leak; 

(4) No Fire, No Fuel Leak; 

(5) Fire, Irrespective of Fuel Leak, (2+3). 
P.56 

Table 31-b. Car Fires in the State of Michigan 1978-1984. 

Rates of Car Fires per 1000 Accident Involved , 

Cars, as a Function of Make and Model Year I 

Fire Rates per 1000 

Accident Involved Cars 

by Model Year 

Car Make 

Am Motors 

Buick 

Cad i11ac 

Chevrolet 

Chrysler 

Dodge 

Ford 

Lincoln 

Mercury 

Olds 

Plymouth 

Pontiac 

Volkswag 

Othr Imp 

Othr Dom 

All 

2.5 

2.0 

2.2 

2.1 

2.4 

2.3 

2.3 

2.5 

2.3 

1.9 

2.1 

2.4 

3.8 

2.1 

2.9 

Post-75 

2.2 

1.6 

1.7 

1.7 

2.2 

2.0 

1.8 

1.9 

1.9 

1.4 

1.6 

1.9 

2.2 

1.7 

2.7 

Post-80 

2.0 

1.2 

1.0 

1 .6 

2.4 

2.1 

1.4 

2.2 

1.7 

1.3 

1.2 

1.7 

1.6 

1.3 

2.9 

All 2.2 1.8 I.i 
Table 32. Motor Vehicle Fires in the State of Maryland 1978-1984. 

Counts'of Motor Vehicles, According to Fire's Role in 

the Accident and Damage; Rates of Car Fires per 1000 

Accident Involved MV, as a Function of Bodytype 

Body 

Type 

M/C 

Car 

S.W. 

LTV 

Truck 

HDT 

Other 

Freq 

y. 

1.4 

69.8 

5.7 

10.0 

2.3 

1 .6 

9.2 

( 1) 

23977 

1226509 

100103 

175511 

40767 

28560 

160949 

Car 

(2) 

11 

1656 

242 

323 

135 

176 

81 

Count 

(3) 

6 

450 

58 

87 

34 

36 

33 

s 

(4) 

56 

771 

70 

135 

48 

68 

62 

Total 

24050 

1229386 

100473 

176056 

40984 

28840 

161125 

Car Fire Rat 

per 1000 Tot 

(2) 

0.5 

1.3 

2.4 

1.8 

3.3 

6.1 

0.5 

(3) 

0.2 

0.4 

0.6 

0.5 

0.8 

1.2 

0.2 

(4) 

2.3 

0.6 

0.7 

0.8 

H.2 

2.4 

0.4 

es 

al 

(5) 

3.0 

2.3 

3.7 

3.1 

5.3 

9.7 

1.1 

All 100.0 1756376 2624 704 1210 1760914 i.: 0.4 0.7 2.6 

(1) No Fire; 

(2) Fire Principal Cause of Accident, Fire Damage; 

(3) Fire Principal Cause of Accident, No Fire Damage; 

(4) Fire, not the Principal Cause of Accident, Fire Damage; 

(5) = (2)+(3)+(4). 
Table 33. Car Fires in the State of Maryland 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire's Role in 

the Accident and Damage; Rates of Car Fires 

per 1000 Accident Involved Cars, as a Function 

of Calendar Year 

Cal . 

Year 

78 

79 

80 

81 

82 

83 

84 

All 

( 1 ) 

251585 

222425 

170594 

167836 

165704 

170967 

177501 

1326612 

Car 

(2) 

286 

274 

204 

195 

287 

315 

337 

1898 

Counts 

(3) 

68 

90 

55 

75 

91 

80 

49 

508 

(4) 

129 

127 

105 

111 

115 

119 

135 

841 

Total 

252068 

222916 

170958 

168217 

166197 

171481 

178022 

1329859 

Car Fire Rat 

per 1000 Tot 

(2) 

1.1 

1.2 

1.2 

1.2 

1.7 

1.8 

1.9 

1.4 

(3) 

0.3 

0.4 

0.3 

0.4 

0.5 

0.5 

0.3 

0.4 

(4) 

0.5 

0.6 

0.6 

0.7 

0.7 

0.7 

0.8 

0.6 

es 

al 

(.5) 

1.9 

2.2 

2.1 

2.3 

3.0 

3.0 

2.9 

2.4 

(1) No Fire; 

(2) Fire Principal Cause of Accident, Fire Damage; 

(3) Fire Principal Cause of Accident, No Fire Damage; 

(4) Fire not the Principal Cause of Accident, Fire Damage; 

( 5 ) = (2) + ( 3) + (4 ) . 
Table 34. Car Fires in the State of Maryland 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire's Role in 

the Accident and Damage; Rates of Car Fires 

per 1000 Accident Involved Cars, as a Function 

of Month 

Month 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

( 1 ) 

110194 

101697 

106850 

107489 

120831 

108975 

104659 

107310 

106019 

115743 

111855 

123162 

Car 

(2) 

127 

113 

120 

164 

201 

194 

230 

217 

150 

130 

134 

117 

Cour 

(3) 

32 

33 

40 

46 

47 

33 

54 

43 

47 

52 

41 

40 

its 

(4) 

61 

55 

51 

68 

78 

88 

72 

63 

81 

64 

64 

96 

Total 

110414 

101898 

107061 

107767 

121157 

109290 

105015 

107633 

106297 

115989 

112094 

123415 

Ca r Fire Rat 

per 1000 Tot 

(2) 

1.2 

1.1 

1.1 

1.5 

1.7 

1.8 

2.2 

2.0 

1.4 

1.1 

1.2 

0.9 

(3) 

0.3 

0.3 

0.4 

0.4 

0.4 

0.3 

0.5 

0.4 

0.4 

0.4 

0.4 

0.3 

(4) 

0.6 

0.5 

0.5 

0.6 

0.6 

0.8 

0.7 

0.6 

0.8 

0.6 

0.6 

0.8 

E?S 

al 

(5) 

2.0 

2.0 

2.0 

2.6 

2.7 

2.9 

3.4 

3.0 

2.6 

2.1 

2.1 

2.0 

All 1326612 1898 508 841 1329859 1.4 0.4 0.6 2.4 

( 1 ) No Fire; 

(2) Fire Principal Cause of Accident, Fire Damage; 

(3) Fire Principal Cause of Accident, No Fire Damage; 

(4) Fire not the Principal Cause of Accident, Fire Damage? 

(5) = (2)+(3)+(4). 
Table 35. Car Fires in the State of Maryland 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire's Role in 

the Accident and Damage; Rates of Car Fires 

per 1000 Accident Involved Cars, as a Function 

of Model Year 

(1) 

(2) 

(3) 

(4) 

(5) 

Mr.ric 

noaei Year 

Pre-66 

66 

67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

80 

31 

82 

83 

84 

All 

No Fire 

Fire 

Fire 

Fire 

= (2) 

Pr 

Pr 

no 

(1) 

37045 

17069 

23201 

34024 

44822 

56223 

66596 

87368 

104129 

96321 

82728 

113177 

127773 

131213 

105467 

69808 

50791 

35551 

26050 

16406 

1326612 

; 

incipal 

incipai 

t the Pr 

+(3)+(4). 

Car 

(2) 

77 

34 

64 

75 

124 

134 

140 

149 

207 

213 

172 

124 

103 

82 

81 

59 

31 

13 

11 

4 

1898 

Cause 

Cause 

incipa 

Counts 

(3) 

18 

3 

16 

13 

31 

19 

39 

45 

52 

45 

36 

50 

36 

41 

27 

15 

8 

. 7 

2 

0 

508 

(4) 

30 

23 

16 

32 

42 

42 

58 

79 

70 

68 

74 

60 

59 

51 

51-

36 

23 

10 

6 

8 

841 

of Accid 

of Accid 

il Cause 

Total 

37170 

17134 

23297 

34144 

45019 

56418 

66833 

87641 

104458 

96647 

83010 

113411 

127971 

131387 

105626 

69918 

50853 

35581 

26069 

16418 

1329859 

ent, Fire 

ent. No F 

Car Fir e Rat 

per 1000 Tot 

(2) 

2.1 

2.0 

2.7 

2.2 

2.8 

2.4 

2.1 

1.7 

2.0 

2.2 

2.1 

1.1 

0.8 

0.6 

0.8 

0.8 

0.6 

0.4 

0.4 

0.2 

1.4 

(3) 

0.5 

0.5 

0.7 

0.4 

0.7 

0.3 

0.6 

0.5 

0.5 

0.5 

0.4 

0.4 

0.3 

0.3 

0.3 

0.2 

0.2 

0.2 

0.1 

0.0 

0.4 

Damage; 

ire Damage 

of Accident, F 

(4) 

0.8 

1.3 

0.7 

0.9 

0.9 

0.7 

0.9 

0.9 

0.7 

0.7 

0.9 

0.5 

0.5 

0.4 

0.5 

0.5 

0.5 

0.3 

0.2 

0.5 

0.6 

; 

ire Damage 

es 

al 

(5) 

3.4 

3.8 

4.1 

3.5 

4.4 

3.5 

3.5 

3.1 

3.1 

3.4 

3.4 

2.1 

1.5 

1.3 

1.5 

1 .6 

1.2 

0.8 

0.7 

0.7 

2.4 

• 

"1 
P.61 

Table 36. Car Fires in the State of Maryland 1978-1984. 

Rates of Car Fires per 1000 Accident Involved 

Cars, as a Function of Model Year and Car Age 

Fire Rates per 1000 

Accident Involved Cars 

by Car Age 

Model 

Year 

Pre-66 

66 

67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

80 

81 

82 

83 

84 

All 

3.4 

3.8 

4.1 

3.5 

4.4 

3.5 

3.5 

3.1 

3.1 

3.4 

3.4 

2.1 

1.5 

1.3 

1.5 

1.6 

1.2 

0.8 

0.7 

0.7 

< 6 Yrs 

2.3 

2.2 

2.6 

1.5 

1.2 

1.2 

1.5 

1.6 

1.2 

0.8 

0.7 

0.7 

< 4 Yrs 

2.2 

1.2 

0.8 

0.8 

1.1 

1.3 

1.2 

0.8 

0.7 

0.7 

All 2.4 1.5 1.1 
Table 37. Car Fires in the State of Maryland 1978-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to Fire's Role in 

the Accident and Damage; Rates of Car Fires 

per 1000 Accident Involved Cars, as a Function 

of Car's Make 

Car 

Make 

Am Motors 

Audi 

Bu i c k 

BMW 

Cadi 1 lac 

Chevrolet 

Chrysler 

Dodge 

Fiat 

Ford 

Honda 

Lincoln 

Mazda 

Mercedes 

Mercury 

MG 

Nissan 

Olds 

Opel 

Plymouth 

Pontiac 

Renault 

Subaru 

Toyota 

Vo 1 vo 

VW 

Other 

Freq 

1.8 

0.3 

4.8 

0.2 

2.1 

21.7 

2.0 

6.0 

0.4 

19.2 

1.4 

o.a 

0.4 

0.2 

4.1 

0.2 

3.2 

5.0 

0.2 

6.2 

6.7 

0.1 

0.2 

3.6 

0.6 

3.3 

5.2 

( 1 ) 

23966 

3416 

63652 

2629 

28463 

288378 

26644 

79849 

5145 

254848 

18446 

10505 

5150 

2576 

54521 

3274 

42017 

65813 

3311 

81S34 

89083 

1731 

3128 

47917 

7774 

43941 

68601 

Car 

(2) 

40 

11 

78 

8 

48 

257 

28 

71 

24 

355 

5 

15 

3 

2 

87 

4 

11 

98 

9 

73 

124 

4 

0 

9 

. 10 

416 

108 

Count 

(3) 

7 

9 

16 

1 

12 

82 

6 

23 

7 

102 

1 

5 

1 

2 

24 

2 

6 

27 

2 

22 

33 

0 

1 

7 

2 

78 

30 

s 

(4> 

10 

3 

31 

0 

22 

157 

19 

48 

4 

175 

8 

13 

1 

1 

38 

3 

15 

44 

1 

48 

52 

1 

4 

18 

6 

67 

52 

Total 

24023 

3439 

63777 

2638 

28545 

288874 

26697 

79991 

5180 

255480 

18460 

10538 

5155 

2581 

54670 

3283 

42049 

65982 

3323 

81977 

89292 

1736 

3133 

47951 

7792 

44502 

68791 

Ca " Fire Rat 

per 100 

(2) 

1.7 

3.2 

1.2 

3.0 

1.7 

0.9 

1.0 

0.9 

4.6 

1.4 

0.3 

1.4 

0.6 

0.8 

1.6 

1.2 

0.3 

1.5 

2.7 

0.9 

1.4 

2.3 

0.0 

0.2 

1.3 

9.3 

1.6 

(3) 

0.3 

2.6 

0.3 

0.4 

0.4 

0.3 

0.2 

0.3 

1.4 

0.4 

0.1 

0.5 

0.2 

0.8 

0.4 

0.6 

0. 1 

0.4 

0.6 

0.3 

0.4 

0.0 

0.3 

0.1 

0.3 

1.8 

0.4 

0 Tot 

(4) 

0.4 

0.9 

0.5 

0.0 

0.8 

0.5 

0.7 

0.6 

0.8 

0.7 

0.4 

1.2 

0.2 

0.4 

0 . 7 

0.9 

0.4 

0.7 

0.3 

0.6 

0.6 

0.6 

1.3 

0.4 

0.8 

1.5 

0.8 

es 

al 

(5) 

2.4 

6.7 j 

2.0 

3.4 j 

2.9 1 

1.7 ! 

2.0 

1.8 | 

6.8 | 

2.5 j 

0.8 ! 

3.1 1 

1 .0 

1.9 -

2.7 ! 

2.7 | 

0.8 | 

2.6 

3.4> 

1.7 

2.3 

2.9 ! 

1.6 

0.7 

2.3 i 

12.6 j 

2.8 ! 

All 100.0 1326612 1898 508 841 1329859 1.4 0.4 0.6 2.4 

(1) No Fire; 

(2) Fire Principal Cause of Accident, Fire Damage; 

(3) Fire Principal Cause of Accident, No Fire Damage; 

(4> Fire not the Principal Cause of Accident, Fire Damage; 

( 5 ) = ( 2 ) + ( 3 ) + ( 4 ) 
Table 38. Car Fires in the State of Maryland 1978-1984. 

Rates of Car Fires per 1000 Accident Involved 

Cars, as a Function of Make and Model Year 

Fire Rates per 1000 

Accident Involved Cars 

by Model Year 

Car Make 

Am Mo t ors 

Audi 

Bu i c k 

BMW 

Cadi 1 lac 

Chevrolet 

Chrysler 

Dodge 

Fiat 

Ford 

Honda 

Lincoln 

Mazda 

Mercedes 

Mercury 

MG 

Nissan 

Olds 

Opel 

Plymouth 

Pontiac 

Renault 

Subaru 

Toyota 

Volvo 

VW 

Other 

All 

2.4 

6.7 

2.0 

3.4 

2.9 

1.7 

2.0 

1 .8 

6.8 

2.5 

0.8 

3.1 

1.0 

1 .9 

2.7 

2.7 

0.8 

2.6 

3.6 

1.7 

2.3 

2.9 

1.6 

0.7 

2.3 

12.6 

2.8 

Post-75 

2.9 

6.0 

1.4 

2.9 

1.2 

1.1 

1.7 

1.6 

er C 

1.9 

0.7 

1.8 

0.9 

1.9 

4.5 

0.7 

1.1 

1.8 

1.5 

1.3 

2.0 

1.7 

0.6 

0.3 

3.4 

2.1 

Post-80 

3.2 

4.5 

1.3 

1.4 

2.0 

1.3 

2.3 

1.6 

2.1 

1.4 

0.3 

1.1 

0.7 

1.5 

0.5 

0.8 

1.6 

1.2 

0.9 

0.6 

0.4 

0.7 

1.3 

1.6 

All 2.4 1.! 1.2 
Table 39. Car Fires in the State of Ohio 1982-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to a Fire's Association 

with the Crash; Rates of Car Fires per 1000 

Accident Involved Cars, as a Function of Model Year 

Model 

Year 

Pre-66 

66 

67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

80 

81 

82 

83 

34 

All 

( 1 ) 

38167 

7398 

10116 

14999 

19969 

29746 

37202 

59439 

77609 

86035 

75529 

103409 

117264 

122256 

116048 

97926 

87349 

70512 

51261 

33579 

1257365 

Car 

(2) 

111 

16 

27 

37 

64 

72 

113 

159 

197 

235 

177 

194 

174 

212 

179 

138 

115 

90 

63 

50 

2430 

Counts 

(3) 

54 

19 

. 17 

48 

54 

82 

116 

173 

226 

243 

200 

205 

192 

179 

156 

120 

69 

41 

24 

13 

2233 

Total 

38332 

7433 

10160 

15084 

20087 

29900 

37431 

59771 

78032 

86513 

75906 

103808 

117630 

122647 

116383 

98184 

87533 

70643 

51348 

33642 

1262028 

Car 

per 

(2) 

2.9 

2.2 

2.7 

2.5 

3.2 

£.4 

3.0 

2.7 

2.5 

2.7 

2.3 

1.9 

1.5 

1.7 

1.5 

1 .4 

1.3 

1.3 

1 .2 

1.5 

1.9 

Fire Rates 

1000 Total 

(3) 

1.4 

2.6 

1.7 

3.2 

2.7 

2.7 

3.1 

2.9 

2.9 

2.8 

2.6 

2.0 

1.6 

1.5 

1.3 

1.2 

0.8 

0.6 

0.5 

0.4 

1.8 

(4> 

4.3 

4.7 

4.3 

5.6 

5.9 

5.2 

6.1 

5.6 

5.4 

& cr 

5.0 

3.8 

3.1 

3.2 

2.9 

2.6 

2.1 

1 .9 

1 .7 

1.9 

3.7 

(1> No Fire; 

(2) Fire Due to Crash; 

(3) Other Fire (Non-Crash 

(4) = (2)+(3). 

or Pre-Crash) 
Table 40. Car Fires in the State of Ohio 1982-1984. 

Rates of Car Fires per 1000 Accident Involved 

Cars, as a Function of Model Year and Car Age 

Fire Rates per 1000 

Accident Involved Cars 

by Car Age 

Model 

Year 

Pre-66 

66 

67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

ao 

81 

82 

83 

84 

Al 1 

4.3 

4.7 

4.3 

5.6 

5.9 

5.2 

6.1 

5.6 

5.4 

o . j 

5.0 

3.8 

3.1 

3.2 

2.9 

2.6 

2.1 

1.9 

1.7 

1.9 

< 6 Yrs 

3. 1 

3. 1 

2.9 

2.6 

2.1 

1.9 

1.7 

1.9 

< 4 Yrs 

2.6 

2.5 

2.1 

1.9 

1.7 

1.9 

All 3.7 2. 1 
Table 41. Car Fires in the State of Ohio 1982-1984. 

Counts of Cars, According to a Fire's Association 

with the Crash; Rates of Car Fires per 1000 

Accident Involved Cars, as a Function of Car Make 

Car Make 

Bu i c k 

Cadillac 

Chevrolet 

Chrysler 

Dodge 

Ford 

Lincoln 

Mercury 

Olds 

Plymouth 

Pont lac 

Am Motors 

Fiat 

Jeep 

Nissan 

Toyota 

Vo1kswag 

Honda 

Other 

All 

Freq 

7. 

7.4 

2. 1 

22.9 

2.3 

5.1 

15.7 

0.9 

4.5 

9.4 

5.2 

8.5 

2.8 

0.3 

0.4 

1.8 

2.4 

2.2 

1.6 

4.5 

100.0 

( 1 ) 

92534 

25807 

287706 

29100 

63600 

197800 

1 1070 

57186 

118112 

65713 

106644 

35487 

4102 

4730 

23034 

30241 

27588 

20044 

56817 

1257365 

Car 

(2) 

150 

40 

538 

58 

151 

381 

25 

112 

199 

141 

228 

62 

11 

18 

42 

56 

50 

27 

141 

2430 

Counts 

(3) 

153 . 

63 

441 

39 

65 

407 

32 

115 

184 

76 

167 

82 

19 

11 

17 

13 

246 

13 

90 

2233 

Total 

92887 

25910 

288685 

29197 

63816 

198588 

11127 

57413 

118495 

65930 

107039 

35631 

4132 

4759 

23093 

30310 

27884 

20084 

57048 

1262028 

Car 

per 

(2) 

1.6 

1.5 

1.9 

2.0 

2.4 

1.9 

2.2 

2.0 

1.7 

2.1 

2.1 

1.7 

2.7 

3.8 

1.8 

1.8 

1.8 

1.3 

2.5 

1.9 

Fire Ra 

1000 To 

(3) 

1.6 

2.4 

1.5 

1.3 

1.0 

2.0 

2.9 

2.0 

1.6 

1.2 

1.6 

2.3 

4.6 

2,3 

0.7 

0., 4 

8.8 

0., 6 

1 .6 

1.8 

ites 

tal 

(4) 

3.3 

4.0 

3.4 

3.3 

3.4 

4.0 

5.1 

4.0 

3.2 

3.3 

3.7 

4.0 

7.3 

6. 1 

2.6 

2.3 

1 0.6 

2.0 

4.0 

3.7 

( 1 ) No Fire; 

(2) Fire Due to Crash; 

(3) Other Fire (Non-Crash 

<^) = (2)+(3). 

or Pre-Crash); 
Table 42. 

Counts and Percent Distributions of All Occupants by 

Type of Most Severe Injury and Injury Severity in MV 

Accidents in the State of Pennsylvania, during 1934 

Type of Most Severe Injury 

1I1JU.I / 

Sever i ty 

No 

In jury 

Fatal 

Ma jor 

i 

i 

> 

i 

• 

* 

i 

i 

* 

i 

i 

i 

• i 

Burns 

0 

0 • oo 

0 . 00 

0.00 

34-

0.01 

2.35 

1<*. 11 

2<* 

0.01 

0.<t0 

9.96 

• 

* 

i 

i 

• 

• 

i 

• 

i 

i 

i 

i 

i 

i 

• i 

Other 

0 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

1396 

0.41 

96.34 

1 . 10 

5880 

1 .74 

98.92 

4.64 

i 

i 

i 

• 

i 

Unknown 

0 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

19 

0.01 

1 .31 

0.80 

40 

0.01 

0.67 

1 .68 

None 

207730 

61.62 

100.00 

100.00 

0 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

o 

0.00 

0.00 

0. OC) 

1 

1 

t 

1 

1 

1 

• 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

t 

1 

1 

1 , 

1 

1 

1 

t 

1 

Total 

207730 

61 .62 

1449 

0.. 43 

5944 

1 .76 

i 

l 

Moderate! 

i 

i 

i 

i 

( 

Mir-or ! 

I 

I 

t 

t 

Unknown ! 

i 

i 

i 

58 ! 

0.02 ! 

0.18 : 

24.07 : 

115 : 

o. 03 : 

o .13 : 

47.72 ! 

i o : 

o. oo : 

0.45 : 

4. 15 ! 

32860 

9.75 

99. 18 

25.92 

35652 

25.41 

98.88 

67.57 

968 

0.29 

43.60 

0.76 

1 

l 

l 

1 

i 

1 

l 

l 

214 : 

0.06 : 

0.65 : 

9.01 { 

859 ! 

0.25 1 

0 .99 : 

36.18 : 

1242 1 

0.37 ! 

55.95 ! 

52.32 ! 

0 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

o 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

o 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

33132 

9.83 

86626 

25 7U 

2220 

0 .66 

Total 241 

0.07 

126756 

37.60 

2374 

0.70 

207730 

61 .62 

337101 

100.00 
TaD 1 e 42 — a. 

Courts <?nd Percent Distributions of Injured 'Occupants 

by Type of Most Severe Injury and Injury Severity in MV 

Acc:denr= in the State of Pennsylvania, during 1934 

T/pe of Most Severe Injury 

. fi jury 

Sever i ty Burns Other Unknown Total 

Fatal 

Ma • or 

'. 34 : 

; 0.03 : 

2.35 : 

i4.ii : 

24 : 

: 0.02 : 

o .40 : 

9.96 : 

1396 ! 

l. 03 : 

96.34 ! 

I.IO : 

5S80 : 

4.55 : 

98.92 1 

4 .64 : 

19 

0.01 

1.31 

0.80 

40 

0.03 

0.67 

1.63 

1449 

1.12 

5944 

4.59 

Moderate 

Minor 

Unknown 

Total 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

58 ! 

c. 04 : 

o .is ; 

24.0" : 

115 : 

0'. 09 ! 

0.13 ! 

-.1 .IZ : 

i o : 

o. o i : 

0.45 : 

4.15 : 

241 

0. 19 

32860 

25.40 

9 9. 18 

25.92 

854>52 

66.21 

98.82 

67.57 

968 

0.75 

43 .60 

0.76 

126756 

97.98 

i 

i 

t 

i 

t 

t 

i 

i 

214 

0. 17 

0.65 

« . 0 1 

259 

0 .66 

0 .99 

36. 18 

1242 

0.96 

55.95 

52.32 

2374 

1 .84 

33132 

25 . a 1 

•36626 

6<b. 96 

2220 

1.72 

129371 

100.00 
P.69 

Tjhie ~2-b. 

Distributions 'Row and Column Percentages) of Injured Car 

Gcrupa nts • b •/ Type of Most Severe Injury, and Injury Severity 

i-.- Accicents of the State of Pennsylvania, During 1973-1984 

Type of Most Severe Injury 

I -• jv.rv __ _ — 

Severity ! Burns Other. Unknown ! Total 

: ,H '_- + + . yFatal 2.33 ! 95.08 ! 2.54 t 100.00 

12.67 : • 1.25 ! 0.27 I 1.17 • 

Major : 0.33 \ 98.77 '. 0.35 ! 100.00 

7.71 ! 4.96 ! 0.34 ! 4.46 

i 1 (. + 

Moderate! 0.19 ! 99.16 i 0.65 '. 100.00 

19.56 ! 25.66 ! 1.37 ! 22.93 

1 \ 1 r 

Minor ! 0.20 ! "^8.32 ! 0.98 '• 100.00 

54.96 I 67. 2^. ! 5.40 ! 60.42 

-K . + + +• 

Unknown ; 0.10 ! 7.22 1 92 .62 '. 100.00 

! 5.10 ! 0.89 I 92.62 '. 10.97 

: : i- 1 yTc ta 1 0.22 38.30 10.98 100.00 

100.00 100.00 100.00 100.00 
Table 42-c. 

Proper t: :nai "'ates of Fires per 1,000 Accident Involved 

Cars m the State of Pennsylvania, During 1979 to 1984. 

Ignoring Unknowns v about 35V.) 

1st Event 2nd Event Either 

79 

3'".' 

81 

82 

33 

34 

7C-3 ^ 

93-34 

£,. 

rs 

l-l 

vg 

vg 

O .7 

0 .9 

0 .9 

1 .0 

1 .3 

1 .7 

1 . 1 

1 .5 

0.5 

0.5 

0.6 

0.7 

0.6 

0.7 

0.6 

0.7 

1.2 

1.3 

1 .5 

1 .7 

1 .9 

2.4 

1 .7 

2.2 

Uniform Redistribution of Unknowns 

1st Event 2nd Event Either 

— •? 

30 

31 

82 

83 

84 

79-3^ 

33-84 

Av g 

Avg 

1 . 1 

1.2 

1.3 

1.6 

2.0 

2.6 

1 .6 

2.3 

0 

0 

0 

1 

0 

1 

1 

1 

.3 

.8 

.9 

.1 

0 

• . 1 

.0 

. 0 

1 .9 

2.0 

2.2 

2.7 

2.9 

3 .7 

2.6 

3.3 
P.71 

T-,!-; = -r. Fire Rates for Cars* and Projections 

U.S. Annual Incidence of Car Fires, 

According tc Various Accident Records 

OT 

^czide.-.t Records 

Fire Rate per 

Thousand Cars 

Pr o j ec t i o r of 

US Car Fires per Yi 

1. Michigan 

Fuel Leak.. 

All Fires 

No

 c i "e 9.2 

2.2 

6 R, 00'.) 

16,500 

Mary 1 and 

Fire FT i ncipa 1 Cause 

Post-Crash Fire 

All Fires 

1 .3 

0.6 

2.4 

13,500 

4 ,500 

18,000 

3. Oh i < 

Pire Due to Crash 

Other Fire 

All Fires 

1 .9 

1 .8 

1 ^,300 

13,500 

27,SOO 

A . P e n n s y 1 v a n. i a 

1 st E'/ent. Low 

Is- Event. High 

2nd Event. Low 

2nd Event. High 

-11 Fires. Low 

All

 c i res. High 

1 .5 

D 3 

0.7 

1 .0 

2.2 

3.3 

1 1 , JOC1 

17.300 

5 ,300 

7,500 

16.500 

24,300 

Washington 

All Fires 

2.4 18,000 

6. MASS 

All Fires 

2.3 17,OOO 
P.72 

Table 44. Pricipal Sources of MV 

in the NHTSA/ODI File, 

Owner Complaints 

as of End of 1987 

Source 

HOT LINE 

CONSUMER LETTER 

NADER AFFILIATED 

EXECUTIVE CORRESP 

PARTS RETURN PROG 

HEADQUARTERS 

STATE ATTORNEY G 

COGRESSIONAL REF 

EXECUTIVE SECRET 

NHTSA REGION IX 

CONSUMER PROD COM 

FEDERAL TRADE COM 

NHTSA REGIONAL OFC 

NHTSA REGION V 

HOROWITZ 

MANUFACTURER 

NHTSA REGION IV 

GOVERNMENT AGENCIES 

NHTSA REGION I 

NTSB 

NHTSA REGION X 

NHTSA REGION VI 

OTHER 

TOTAL 

Count 

91253 

25148 

14682 

12679 

7055 

4428 

2811 

8286 

1657 

917 

669 

636 

606 

523 

467 

463 

388 

364 

323 

215 

202 

1-72 

2343 

168583 

Percent 

54.12 

14.91 

3.70 

7.52 

4.18 

2.62 

1.66 

1.35 

0.98 

0.54 

0.39 

0.37 

0.35 

0.31 

0.27 

0.27 

0.23 

0.21 

0.19 

0. 12 

0. 12 

0. 10 

1.39 

100.00 
Table 45. Annual Volume of MV Owner Complaint* 

in the NHTSA/ODI File 

Cal 1. Year 

Pre-76 

76 

77 

78 

79 

80 

81 

32 

83 

84 

85 

86 

87 

All 

Count 

4059 

6880 

12530 

20070 

18388 

16182 

12321 

11425 

15766 

14538 

11908 

12292 

12219 

168583 

Percent 

2.41 

4.08 

7.43 

1 1 .90 

10.90 

9.59 

7.30 

6.77 

9.35 

8.62 

7.06 

7.29 

7.24 

100.00 
Table 46. Distribution of Motor Vehicle Owner Complaints by 

State, in the NHTSA/ODI File,.' as of End of 1987; 

••Larger States Only Are Shown) 

State 

NY 

CA 

PA 

NJ 

FL 

OH 

MI 

IL 

MD 

MA 

VA 

TX 

CT 

WI 

MO 

MN 

GA 

IN 

WA 

NC 

AZ 

CO 

LA 

TN 

KY 

All 

Count 

19073 

18768 

10623 

9904 

9455 

8653 

8557 

7817 

6930 

6140 

cnc c 

5387 

4284 

4060 

3100 

2736 

2462 

2412 

2391 

2075 

1987 

1832 

1638 

1570 

1427 

168583 

Percent 

11 .31 

11.13 

6.30 

5.37 

5.60 

5. 13 

5.07 

4.63 

.4. 11 

3.64 

3.41 

3. 19 

2.54 

2.40 

1 .83 

1.62 

1 .46 

1.43 

1 .41 

1.23 

1 . 17 

1 .08 

1 .00 

0.93 

0.84 

100.00 
able ^+7. pricipal Categories of Motor Vehicles 

in the NHTSA/ODI File of MV Owner 

Complaints, as of End of 1987 

Vehicle Category Count Percent 

Per = ona1 Transp. VehIc1es 'Car s, LTVs) 

Rec r ea 11o na1 Vehlc1es 

Multipurpose Vehlc1es 

Commercial Trucks 

Buses 'I'City, Cross Country, School) 

Motorcycles 

All Other 

A11 Venic1es 168583 100.00 

162503 

319 

153 

578 

348 

12S7 

3410 

96.. 38 

0 .. 13 

0 . 0 Q 

0 .34 

0 .20 

0.7 6 

2. oa 
P.76 

Table A3. Pricipal Component Categories Mentioned 

;- *V Owner Complaints of the NHTSA/ODI 

File, as of End of 1987 

Principal 

L o Ti p o n e n t C a t e g o r y 

FUEL SYSTEMS 

FCWER TRAIN 

SUSPENSION 

SER'-'ICE BRAKES 

ENGINE 

S

TEEFING ASSEMBLY 

ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS 

STRUCTURE 

INTERIOR SYSTEMS 

VISUAL SYSTEMS 

LIGHTING AND COM 

HEATER DEFROSTER 

EQUIPMENT 

PARKING BRAKES 

ALL CATEGORIES 

Count Percent 

45658 

36645 

30979 

27297 

23349 

19598 

13225 

11276 

10243 

6488 

50 18 

3544 

3425 

1SH 8 

240163 

13.74 

15.04 

12.71 

1 1 .20 

9.'58 

3. '04 

7.48 

4.62 

4 .20 

2.66 

2.06 

1 .45 

1 . <*0 

0.75 

100.00 

=.!- • ' Mean '.'aides of Calendar Year, Model Year, 

and Vehicle Age in MV Owner Complaints of 

the NHTSA/ODI File, as of End of 1937 

Component 

Cal . 

Year 

All 31.2 

Fuel System 81.3 

Ruel Emission Control SO.5 

Model 

Year 

78.8 

7 9 . fc 

73.3 

Vehic le 

Age, Yrs 

2.40 

2.25 

2.20 
"ab le Circumstances and Outcomes of MV Component Failures 

Associated with Fire in Comparison with Component 

Failures Not Associated with Fire; Source: NHTSA .-'GDI 

File of MV Owner Complaints, 1R'76-1°37. 

a. -ire Occurrence at the Time of Failure 

Count Percent 

5sS7 2. 33 

-'en i cle Motion at the time of Failure 

Fire Occurrence 

VehIc le 

Mc t ion 

No 

Yes 

Unkn. 

No 

1 cr c 

I J. J 

60. 3 

24.2 

'es 

30.9 per 100 Component 

46.3 Fai lures 

22.3 

c. Hazard Associated with Component Failure 

Fire Occurrence 

Risk of No Yes 

Sudden Loss of Control 

Loss of Control w Warning 

Control Deterioration 

No Hazard 

7. 1 

5.2 

87.2 

0.5 

29.6 per 100 Component 

4 . -\ Fai lures 

65.9 

'"> . 1 

Actual Loss of Control at Time of Failure 

Fire Occurrence 

Loss O T 

Control No Yes 

Total 

Partial 

No ne 

Unknown 

4 . 6 

17.8 

60.7 

16.9 

5.8 per 100 Component 

11.5 Failures 

5 °. 1 

23.6 
Table 50.

 ; Cont- d) 

e. Accident Occurrence as a Result of Component Failure 

Fire Occurrence 

No Yes 

Ace ident 

Occurrence 

No 

Ves 

?3.6 31.7 per 100 Component 

6.4 13.3 Failures 

Numcer of Psocle Injured as a Result of the Accident 

F i"r e 0cc ur r ence 

Number OT 

Injured No Yes 

One 2.01 • 3.97 per 100 Component 

Two or More 0.71 1.13 Failures 

Memo: In jury Rate 3.79 6.90 

g. Number of Fatalities as a F.'esult of the Accident 

Fire Occurrence 

Number of 

Fatalities No Yes 

One ("I i o 

Two or More 0.04 0.47 

Memo: Fatallt-' Rate 0.28 2.90 

1.51 per 100 Component 

Failures 

h. Property Damage as a Result of the Accident 

Fire Occurrence 

No Yes 

Heavy Damage, '.• $500: 1.25 3.76 per 100 Component 

Fail L.r es. 
Table 51. Counts of MV Component Failures and Related 

MV Fire Rates per 100 Failures, as.a Function 

of Calendar Year; '.Source: NHTSA/ODI Files) 

Cal . 

Year 

-7-7 

73 

76 

37 

86 

35 

S2 

31 

79 

34 

30 

33 

wit h 

C o u n t 

441 

663 

236 

693 

502 

4^0 

391 

364 

553 

416 

417 

4 1° 

~ire 

7.3 

1 1..7 

5.0 

12.2 

8.3 

7.7 

6.9 

6.4 

9.7 

7.3 

7.3 

" . 4 

Tota 

Count 

3393 

14327 

6697 

170 1 1 

175H6 

17530 

17312 

16727 

25921 

5 0 iUU 

21182 

22191 

1 

% 

4. 1 

6.9 

3.2 

8.2 

8.5 

3.5 

S.<4 

3. 1 

12.5 

9.3 

10.3 

10. " 

i-ire 

Rate in. 

Descend ing 

Percent 

5.25 

4.63 

4.27 

4.07 

2.86 

2.51 

2.26 

2. IS 

2. 13 

2 .07 

I .97 

1 .8^ 

: 11 5637 100.0 206626 100.0 
Table 52. Counts of MV Component Failures and Related 

MV Fire Rates per 100 Failures, as a Function 

of State; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files) 

MV Component Failures 

tate 

OK 

DC 

KS 

TN 

AL 

NC, 

MA 

OR 

CA 

TX 

GA 

LA 

MD 

IA 

— W 

AZ 

NJ 

CT 

MN 

SC 

WV 

WA 

MO 

PA 

NY 

VA 

WI 

KY 

IL 

MI 

FL 

OH 

IN 

wi th 

Count 

51 

51 

40 

71 

45 

88 

227 

49 

691 

195 

91 

64 

253 

39 

66 

67 

359 

151 

85 

31 

36 

70 

99 

340 

632 

172 

128 

44 

231 

261 

266 

244 

58 

Fire 

% 

0.9 

0.9 

0.7 

1.2 

0.8 

1.5 

4.0 

0.9 

12.2 

3.4 

1.6 

1.1 

4.4 

0.7 

1.2 

1 .2 

6.3 

2.7 

1 .5 

0.5 

0.6 

1.2 

1.7 

6.0 

11.1 

3.0 

- 2.3 

0.8 

4.1 

4.6 

4.7 

4.3 

1 .0 

Total 

Count 

1114 

1302 

1121 

2044 

1362 

2667 

7367 

1608 

22774 

6520 

3074 

2162 

8553 

1334 

2267 

2322 

12638 

5360 

3092 

1153 

1340 

2634 

3759 

13011 

24262 

6794 

5116 

1786 

9722 

11154 

11720 

10887 

3001 

0.5 

0.6 

0.5 

1 .0 

0.7 

1.3 

3.6 

0.8 

11.0 

3.2 

1.5 

1.0 

4.1 

0.6 

1 .1 

1.1 

6. 1 

2.6 

1.5 

0.6 

0.6 

1.3 

1.3 

6.3 

11.7 

3.3 

2.5 

0.9 

4.7 

5.4 

5.7 

5.3 

1.5 

Fire 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

4.58 

3.92 

3.57 

3.47 

3.30 

3.30 

3.08 

3.05 

3.03 

2.99 

2.96 

2.96 

2.96 

2.92 

2.91 

2.89 

2.84 

2.32 

2.75 

2.69 

2.69 

2.66 

2.63 

2.61 

2.60 

2.53 

2.50 

2.46 

2.38 

2.34 

2.27 

2.24 

1.93 

All 5687 100.0 206626 100.0 2.7! 
ible 53. Counts of MV Component Failures and Related 

MV Fire Rates per 100 Failures, as a Function 

•-.if Month; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files) 

MV Component Failures 

Month 

6 

7 

12 

8 

11 

1 

wl 

3 

9 

4 

2 

10 

Al 1 

wi th 

Count 

5 H 6 

570 

391 

551 

402 

493 

<+45 

521 

475 

453 

419 

416 

5687 

Fire 

• • 

9.6 

10.0 

6.9 

9.7 

7. 1 

8.8 

7.8 

9.2 

3.4 

3.0 

7.4 

7.3 

100.0 

Tota 

Count 

17198 

17985 

13162 

19747 

14627 

18164 

16483 

19519 

18305 

17709 

16803 

16895 

206626 1 

1 

y. 

3.3 

8.7 

6.4 

9.6 

7.1 

8.8 

8.0 

9.4 

8.9 

8.6 

8. 1 

8.2 

00.0 

Fire 

Rate in 

Descend ing 

Percent 

3.17 

3.17 

2.97 

2.79 

2.75 

2.74 

2.70 

2.67 

2.59 

2.56 

2.49 

2.46 
Table 54. Counts of MV Component Failures and Related 

MV Fire Rates per 100 Failures, as a Function 

of Component Category; (Source: NHTSA/QDI Files) 

Component Category 

MV Component Failures 

with Fire Total 

Count */• Count *> 

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 1349 

FUEL SYSTEMS 2850 

HEATER DEFROSTER DEFOGGER 188 

ENGINE AND ENGINE COOLING 571' 

EQUIPMENT 48 

LIGHTING AND COMMUNICATION 58 

INTERIOR SYSTEMS 8=? 

POWER TRAIN 223 

STRUCTURE 66 

VISUAL SYSTEMS 23 

STEERING ASSEMBLY 81 

SERVICE BRAKES 84 

PARKING EMERGENCY BRAKE 6 

SUSPENSION 46 

23.7 

5 0. 1 

3.3 

10.0 

0.8 

1 .0 

1.6 

3.9 

1.2 

0. ~ 

1. 

1. 

0. 

0. 

.4 

c 

.1 

,3 

15882 

40063 

2684 

17777 

3112 

4025 

8878 

32295 

9521 

5540 

17088 

22764 

1677 

25320 

7.7 

19.4 

1.3 

8.6 

1.5 

1.9 

4.3 

15.6 

4.6 

2.7 

8.3 

11.0 

0.8 

12.3 

Fire 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

3.49 

7.11 

7.00 

3.21 

1.54 

1 .44 

X . 00 

0. 69 

0.69 

0.5 1 

0 .47 

0. 37 

•0.36 

0. 13 

ALL CATEGORIES 5687 100.0 206626 100.0 il.l . 
Table Counts of MV Component Failures 

MV Fire Rates per 100 Failures, 

of Specific Component; (Source: 

and Related 

as a Function 

NHTSA/ODI Files) 

Specific Component 

FUEL SYSTEMS 

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM 

ENGINE 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY TANK 

FUEL CARBURETION 

EXHAUST SYSTEM 

CARBURETOR UNKNOWN TYPE 

FUEL CRBRATN,INJ,THRTL 

ENGINE OTHER PARTS 

FUEL PUMP 

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM BATTERY 

ELECTRICAL SYSTEM STARTER 

ALTERNATOR, GENERATOR 

POWER TRAIN AXLE ASSEMBLY 

ELEC SYS IGNITION CONTROL 

TRANSMISSION 

THROTTLE LINKAGES 

BRKS HYDRAULIC MSTR CYL 

PWR TRN TRNS UNK TYP 

CHAIN PROPELR DRI 

DIFFENTIAL UNIT 

EQUIPMENT SPEED CONTROL 

SERVICE BRAKES 

SHOE AND DRUM SYSTEM 

POWER TRAIN CLUTCH ASSEMBLY 

SHOE DISC BRAKE SYSTEM 

STRUCTURE FRAME MEMBERS 

BRAKES HYDRAULIC SYSTEM 

STEERING POWER ASSIST 

PWR TRN TRANSM 4 SPD 

STEERING ASSEMBLY 

BRKS HYDRAULIC DISC CALIPER 

SUSPENSION 

TIRES 

BRAKES HYDRAULIC POWER ASSIST 

STEERING GEAR RACK AND PINION 

POWER STEERING GEAR BOX 

SUSPN INDP FT BEARING WHEEL 

DISC ROTOR DISC HUB 

ENGINE PULLEY CRANKSHAFT 

TIRES TREAD 

MV Component Failures 

Fi re 

with Fire Total Rate in 

Descending 

Count 7. Count */. Percent 

407 

313 

405 

107 

413 

69 

246 

104 

38 

32 

32 

16 

15 

19 

22 

87 

26 

8 

14 

6 

10 

8 

9 

7 

7 

10 

5 

18 

9 

4 

5 

3 

3 

17 

3 

4 

1 

1 

1 

1 

1 

7.2 

0 .5 

7.1 

1.9 

7.3 

1.2 

4.3 

1.8 

0.7 

0.6 

0.6 

0.3 

0.3 

0.3 

0.4 

1 .5 

0.5 

0.1 

0.2 

0.1 

0.2 

0.1 

0.2 

0.1 

0.1 

0.2 

0.1 

0.3 

0.2 

0.1 

0.1 

0.1 

0.1 

0.3 

0. 1 

0.1 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

0.0 

1954 

2206 

5575 

1626 

6514 

1228 

5907 

2575 

1613 

1363 

1401 

1054 

1113 

1520 

2061 

11566 

4432 

1481 

2779 

1202 

2150 

1798 

2157 

1661 

1952 

2822 

1472 

5483 

3326 

1474 

1987 

1198 

1328 

8110 

1956 

3793 

1151 

1104 

1200 

1200 

1644 

0.9 

1.1 

2.7 

0.8 

3.2 

0.6 

2.9 

1.2 

0.8 

0.7 

0.7 

0.5 

0.5 

0.7 

1.0 

5.6 

2.1 

0.7 

1.3 

0.6 

1.0 

0.9 

1.0 

0.8 

0.9 

1.4 

0.7 

2.7 

1.6 

0.7 

1.0 

0.6 

0.6 

3.9 

0.9 

1.8 

0.6 

0.5 

0.6 

0.6 

0.8 

20.33 

14.19 

7.26 

6.58 

6.34 

5.62 

4.16 

4.04 

2.28 

1.52 

1.35 

1.25 

1 .07 

0.75 

0.59 

0.54 

0.50 

0.50 

0.47 

0.44 

0.42 

0.42 

0.36 

0.35 

0.34 

0.33 

0.27 

0.27 

0.25 

0.25 

0.23 

0.21 

0.15 

0.11 

0.09 

0.09 

0.08 

0.08 

0.06 

ALL COMPONENTS 5687 100.0 206626 100.0 .75 
Table 56. Counts of MV Component Failures and Related 

MV Fire Rates per 100 Failures, as a Function 

of Model Year; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files) 

MV Component Failures 

Model 

Year 

71 

72 

75 

87 

86 

74 

85 

73 

76 

60 

77 

84 

81 

82 

83 

79 

78 

80 

with F 

Count 

68 

103 

392 

70 

255 

225 

335 

U l 

471 

161 

496 

428 

419 

339 

286 

439 

502 

383 

ire 

•/. 

1.2 

1.8 

6.9 

1.2 

4.5 

4.0 

5.9 

2.0 

8.3 

2.8 

8.7 

7.5 

7.4 

6.0 

5.0 

7.7 

8.8 

6.7 

Total 

Count 

1260 

2124 

9398 

1722 

6300 

5750 

9225 

3325 

14356 

5473 

17459 

15247 

17239 

13965 

12275 

20376 

24574 

24181 

7. 

0.6 

1.0 

4.5 

0.8 

3.0 

2.8 

4.5 

1.6 

6.9 

2.6 

8.4 

7.4 

8.3 

6.8 

5.9 

9.9 

11.9 

11.7 

Fire 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

5.40 

4.85 

4.17 

4.07 

4.05 

3.91 

3.63 

3.34 

3.28 

2.94 

2.84 

2.81 

2.43 

2.43 

2.33 

2.15 

2.04 

1.58 

All 5687 100.0 206626 100.0 2.7! 
Table 57. Counts of MV Component Failures and Related 

MV Fire Rates per 100 Failures, as a Function 

of Vehicle Make; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files) 

MV Component Failures 

Vehicle Make 

RENAULT 

FORD TRUCK 

LINCOLN 

FORD 

JEEP 

VOLKSWAGEN 

CADILLAC 

AUDI 

MERCURY 

DODGE TRUCK 

AMERICAN MOTORS 

FIAT 

TOYOTA 

GMC 

MAZDA 

PONTIAC 

DODGE 

PLYMOUTH 

CHRYSLER 

VOLVO 

CHEVROLET TRUCK 

CHEVROLET 

HONDA 

BUICK 

OLDSMOBILE 

SUBARU 

DATSUN 

ALL VEHICLE MAKES 

with 

Count 

49 

385 

73 

958 

80 

368 

188 

86 

290 

113 

154 

69 

99 

42 

28 

295 

308 

304 

137 

48 

117 

563 

59 

209 

203 

24 

30 

5687 

Fire 

y. 

0.9 

6.8 

1 .3 

16.8 

1.4 

6.5 

3.3 

1.5 

5. 1 

2.0 

2.7 

1.2 

1.7 

0.7 

0.5 

5.2 

5.4 

5.3 

2.4 

0.8 

2.1 

9.9 

1.0 

3.7 

3.6 

0.4 

0.5 

100.0 

Tot 

Count 

1075 

8563 

1695 

22439 

1967 

9197 

4876 

2315 

8669 

3572 

5097 

2314 

3443 

1529 

1098 

11827 

12702 

12844 

6010 

2136 

5374 

28949 

3816 

13988 

15174 

1831 

2711 

206626 

al 

y. 

0.5 

4.1 

0.8 

10.9 

1.0 

4.5 

2.4 

1.1 

4.2 

1.7 . 

2.5 

1.1 

1.7 

0.7 

0.5 

5.7 

6.1 

6.2 

2.9 

1.0 

2.6 

14.0 

1.8 

6.8 

7.3 

0.9 

1.3 

100.0 

Fire 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

4.56 

4.50 

4.31 

4.27 

4.07 

4.00 

3.86 

3.71 

3.35 

3.16 

3.02 

2.98 

2.88 

2.75 

2.55 

2.49 

2.42 

2.37 

2.28 

2.25 

2.18 

1.94 

1.55 

1.49 

1.34 

1.31 

1.11 

2.75 
Table 57. Counts of MV Component Failures and Related 

MV Fire Rates per 100 Failures, as a Function 

of Vehicle Make; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files) 

MV Component Failures 

' 

Vehicle Make 

RENAULT 

FORD TRUCK 

LINCOLN 

FORD 

JEEP 

VOLKSWAGEN 

CADILLAC 

AUDI 

MERCURY 

DODGE TRUCK 

AMERICAN MOTORS 

FIAT 

TOYOTA 

GMC 

MAZDA 

PONTIAC 

DODGE 

PLYMOUTH 

CHRYSLER 

VOLVO 

CHEVROLET TRUCK 

CHEVROLET 

HONDA 

BUICK 

OLDSMOBILE 

SUBARU 

DATSUN 

ALL VEHICLE MAKES 

with 

Count 

49 

385 

73 

958 

80 

368 

188 

86 

290 

113 

154 

69 

99 

42 

28 

295 

308 

304 

137 

48 

117 

563 

59 

209 

203 

24 

30 

5687 

Fire 

% 

0.9 

6.8 

1.3 

16.8 

1.4 

6.5 

3.3 

1.5 

5.1 

2.0 

2.7 

1.2 

1.7 

0.7 

0.5 

5.2 

5.4 

5.3 

2.4 

0.8 

2.1 

9.9 

1.0 

3.7 

3.6 

0.4 

0.5 

100.0 

Tot 

Count 

1075 

8563 

1695 

22439 

1967 

9197 

4876 

2315 

8669 

3572 

5097 

2314 

3443 

1529 

1098 

11827 

12702 

12844 

6010 

2136 

5374 

• 28949 

3816 

13988 

15174 

1831 

2711 

206626 

al 

7. 

0.5 

4.1 

0.8 

10.9 

1.0 

4.5 

2.4 

1.1 

4.2 

1.7 . 

2.5 

1.1 

1.7 

0.7 

0.5 

5.7 

6.1 

6.2 

2.9 

1.0 

2.6 

14.0 

1.8 

6.8 

7.3 

0.9 

1.3 

100.0 

Fire 

Rate in 

Descending 

.Percent 

4.56 

4.50 

4.31 

4.27 

4.07 

4.00 

3.86 

3.71 

3.35 

3.16 

3.02 

2.98 

2.88 

2.75 

2.55 

2.49 

2.42 

2.37 

2.28 

2.25 

2.18 

1.94 

1.55 

1.49 

1.34 

1.31 

1.11 

2.75 
Table 

1. 

2. 

3. 

4. 

5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 

10. 

11. 

12. 

13. 

14. 

15. 

16. 

17. 

18. 

19. 

20. 

21. 

22. 

23. 

24. 

25. 

26. 

27. 

28. 

29. 

30. 

31. 

32. 

5 8. Shares 

on U.S. 

Alphabet 

Make 

Am Motors 

Audi 

Buick 

BMW 

Cadillac 

Capri 

Chevrolet 

Chrysler 

Dodge 

Fiat 

Fiesta 

Ford 

Honda 

Lincoln 

Mazda 

Mercedes 

Mercury 

MG 

Nissan 

Olds 

Opel 

Plymouth 

Pontiac 

Porsche 

Renault 

Saab 

Subaru 

Toyota 

Triumph 

Vo 1 vo 

VW 

Other 

All 

of Princip 

Roads in 

ically 

Percent 

2.37 

0.33 

7.09 

0.28 

2.88 

0.26 

20.69 

2.22 

4.38 

0.39 

0.18 

16.65 

1.71 

1.10 

0.72 

0.57 

4.09 

0.24 

2.92 

8.21 

0.30 

5.04 

6.91 

0.18 

0.12 

0.14 

0.58 

3.52 

0.17 

0.63 

3.60 

1.37 

100.00 

al Mak 

1977 t 

es of Cars in 

o 1986. 

In Descendi 

Make 

Chevrolet 

Ford 

Olds 

Buick 

Pontiac 

Plymouth 

Dodge 

Mercury 

VW 

Toyota 

Nissan 

Cadillac 

Am Motors 

Chrysler 

Honda 

Lincoln 

Mazda 

Vo 1 vo 

Subaru 

Mercedes 

Fiat 

Audi 

Opel 

BMW 

Capri 

MG 

Porsche 

Fiesta 

Triumph 

Saab 

Renault 

Other 

All 

Operation 

ng Order 

Percent 

20.69 

16.65 

8.21 

7.09 

6.91 

5.04 

4.38 

4.09 

3.60 

3.52 

2.92 

2.88 

2.37 

2.22 

1.71 

1.10 

0.72 

0.63 

0.58 

0.57 

0.39 

0.33 

0.30 

0.28 

0.26 

0.24 

0.18 

0.18 

0.17 

0.14 

0.12 

1.37 

100.00 

• ^ r* 

1 

i 

i | 

t 

1 

j 
P.88 

Table 59. Counts 

MV Fire 

of MV 

Rates 

Component Failures and Related 

per 100 Failures, as a Functio 

of Vehicle Model; (Source: 

Vehicle Model 

ESCORT 

PINTO 

ECONOLINE 

F SERIES LIGHT TRK 

CADILLAC 

MUSTANG 

LTD 

COUGAR 

5000 

ARIES 

FAIRMONT 

COROLLA 

OMNI 

RELIANT 

GRANADA 

ELECTRA 

THUNDERBIRD 

B SERIES VAN 

SKYHAWK 

HORIZON 

TEMPO 

CORDOBA 

GM PU CNK SERIES 

TYPE III 

MERCURY 

CAPRICE 

RABBIT 

MONTE CARLO 

CAVALIER 

CHEVETTE 

GRAND PRIX 

CIVIC 

FIREBIRD 

CAPRI 

CAMARO 

BONNEVILLE 

ALLIANCE 

CHEVELLE 

LESABRE 

MV Component 

with 

Count 

202 

95 

113 

180 

72 

89 

114 

48 

40 

55 

87 

38 

121 

59 

66 

34 

55 

51 

31 

119 

34 

39 

33 

30 

49 

102 

142 

47 

40 

93 

35 

32 

30 

39 

38 

23 

20 

53 

25 

Fire 

%. 

3.6 

1.7 

2.0 

3.2 

1.3 

1.6 

2.0 

0.8 

0.7 

1.0 

1.5 

0.7 

2.1 

1.0 

1.2 

0.6 

1.0 

0.9 

0.5 

2.1 

0.6 

0.7 

0.6 

0.5 

0.9 

1.8 

2.5 

0.8 

0.7 

1.6 

0.6 

0.6 

0.5 

0.7 

0.7 

0.4 

0.4 

0.9 

0.4 

NHTSA/ODI Files) 

Failures 

Total 

Count 

2819 

1578 

2248 

4377 

1840 

2289 

3017 

1272 

1116 

1541 

2470 

1124 

3611 

1833 

2057 

1060 

1874 

1759 

1096 

4260 

1229 

1412 

1213 

1120 

1837 

3982 

5609 

1880 

1741 

4234 

1604 

1537 

1447 

1930 

1940 

1202 

1071 

2931 

1428 

% 

1.4 

0.8 

1.1 

2.1 

0.9 

1.1 

1.5 

0.6 

0.5 

0.7 

1.2 

0.5 

1.7 

0.9 

1.0 

0.5 

0.9 

0.9 

0.5 

2.1 

0.6 

0.7 

0.6 

0.5 

0.9 

1.9 

2.7 

0.9 

0.8 

2.0 

0.8 

0.7 

0.7 

0.9 

0.9 

0.6 

0.5 

1.4 

0.7 

Fire 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

7.17 

6.02 

5.03 

4.11 

3.91 

3.89 

3.78 

3.77 

3.58 

3.57 

3.52 

3.38 

3.35 

3.22 

3.21 

3.21 

2.93 

2.90 

2.83 

2.79 

2.77 

2.76 

2.72 

2.68 

2.67 

2.56 

2.53 

2.50 

2.30 

2.20 

2.18 

2.08 

2.07 

2.02 

1.96 

1.91 

1.87 

1.81 

1.75 
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t Mode

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s o

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Table 60. (Cont'd) 

P.91 

Alphabetically In Descending Order 

46. 

47. 

48. 

49. 

50. 

51. 

52. 

53. 

54. 

55. 

56. 

57. 

58. 

59. 

60. 

61 . 

62. 

63. 

64. 

6o. 

66. 

67. 

68. 

69. 

70. 

71. 

72. 

73. 

74. 

75. 

76. 

77. 

78. 

79. 

80. 

81. 

82. 

83. 

84. 

85 • 

86. 

87. 

88. 

89. 

90. 

91. 

Model 

F 10 

Fairmont 

Fiat 

Fiero 

Firebird 

Firenza 

Golf 

Granada 

Grand Am 

Grand Marquis 

Grand Prix 

Honda 600 

Horizon 

Isuzu 

J 2000 

Jaguar 

Jetta 

Lancer 

LeMans 

LeSabre 

Lincoln 

Lynx 

LN7 

LTD 

LTD II 

Malibu 

Marquis 

Maverick 

Mazda 

Mercedes 

Mitsubishi 

Monarch 

Monte Carlo 

Monza 

Mustang 

MG 

Ninety Eight 

Nova 

Omega 

Omni 

Pacer 

Peugeot 

Phoenix 

Pinto 

Porsche 

Prelude 

Percent 

0.062 

0.882 

0.394 

0.042 

0.850 

0.047 

0.014 

1.276 

0.028 

0.050 

1.243 

0.014 

0.436 

0.027 

0.102 

0.080 

0.058 

0.009 

1.184 

1.598 

1 . 100 

0.147 

0.015 

4.032 

0.300 

3.012 

1.067 

1.133 

0.725 

0.576 

0.027 

0 . 382 

2.208 

0.501 

1.916 

0.248 

0.953 

2.079 

0.417 

0.372 

0.188 

0.090 

0.229 

1.786 

0.189 

0.131 

Model 

Mercedes 

Escort 

Corona 

Monza 

300/280 

Spirit 

Horizon 

Omega 

Capri 

Fiat 

Monarch 

Omni 

Audi 

Corvette 

Cavalier 

Sunbird 

510 

Riviera 

Ventura 

Comet 

LTD II 

Super Beetle 

Toronado 

BMW 

Tercel 

Reiiant 

Zephyr 

MG 

Regal 

Celebrity 

Renault 

Phoenix 

Ciera 

Aries 

200 SX 

Sentra 

Porsche 

Pacer 

Skyhawk Pre 82 

Century 

Triumph 

310 

Diplomat 

Dasher 

Bobcat 

Lynx 

Percent 

0.576 

0.561 

0.540 

0.501 

0.499 

0.468 

0.436 

0.417 

0.416 

0.394 

0.382 

0.372 

0.339 

0.332 

0.324 

0.322 

0.322 

0.315 

0.310 

0.301 

0.300 

0.296 

0.285 

0.281 

0.270 

0.267 

0. £67 

0.248 

0.241 

0.238 

0.234 

0.229 

0.223 

0.212 

0.211 

0.199 

0.189 

0. 188 

0.182 

0.179 

0.171 

0.160 

0.158 

0.154 

0.149 

0.147 
Table 60. (Concluded) 

Alphabetically In Descending 0rde?r 

92. 

93. 

94. 

95. 

96. 

97. 

98. 

99. 

100. 

101. 

102. 

103. 

104. 

105. 

106. 

107. 

108. 

109. 

110. 

111. 

112. 

113. 

114. 

115. 

116. 

117. 

118. 

119. 

120. 

121. 

122. 

123. 

124. 

125. 

126. 

127. 

128. 

129. 

130. 

131. 

132. 

133. 

134. 

135. 

136. 

137. 

Model 

Pulsar 

Quantum 

Rabbit 

Regal 

Reiiant 

Renault 

Riviera 

Scirocco 

Sentra 

Skyhawk Pre 82 

Skylark Pst 75 

Somerset 

Spirit 

Stanza 

Starfire 

Starlet 

Subaru 

Sunbird 

Super Beetle 

Supra 

Saab 

Tempo 

Tercel 

Thunderbird 

Topaz 

Toronado 

Triumph 

TIOOO 

Valiant 

Vega 

Ventura 

Volare 

Volvo 

Zephyr 

200 SX 

210/B210 

300/280 

310 

400 

510 

600 

6000 

610 

710 

810/Maxima 

Other 

Percent 

0.040 

0.015 

0.822 

0.241 

0.267 

0.234 

0.315 

0.114 

0.199 

0.182 

1.383 

0.021 

0.468 

0.067 

0.088 

0.029 

0.589 

0.322 

0.296 

0.067 

0.142 

0.145 

0.270 

1.138 

0.041 

0.285 

0.171 

0.067 

1.277 

0.890 

0.310 

0.804 

0.635 

0.267 

0.211 

0.963 

0.499 

0.160 

0.021 

0.322 

0.038 

0. 110 

0.102 

0.112 

0.145 

16.214 

Model 

Tempo 

810/Maxima 

Saab 

Prelude 

Scirocco 

710 

6000 

J 2000 

610 

Astre 

Peugeot 

Starfire 

Cougar XR7 

Cressida 

Jaguar 

Eagle 

Stanza 

Supra 

TIOOO 

F 10 

Camry 

Crown Victoria 

Jetta 

EXP 

Grand Marquis 

Firenza 

Fiero 

Topaz 

Pulsar 

600 

Starlet 

Grand Am 

Isuzu 

Mitsubishi 

Calais 

Carina 

Daytona 

Somerset 

400 

LN7 

Quantum 

Golf 

Honda 600 

Caravelle 

Lancer 

Other 

Percent 

0.145 

0.145 

0.142 

0.131 

0.114 

0. IL 12 

0.110 

0.102 

0.102 

0.093 

0.090 

0.088 

0.084 

0.081 

0.080 

0.078 

0.067 

0.067 

0.067 

0.062 

0.060 

0.059 

0.058 

0.055 

0.050 

0.047 

0.042 

0.041 

0.040 

0.038 

0.029 

0.028 

0.027 

0.027 

0.025 

0.024 

0.021 

0.021 

0.021 

0.015 

0.015 

0.014 

0.014 

0.010 

0.009 

16.214 
P.93 

Table 61. Counts of MV Fuel System Failures in Comparison 

with All Failures; Fuel System Failure Rates 

per 100 Total, as a Function of Model Year; 

\ sou 

Model 

Year 

87 

86 

85 

84 

83 

75 

81 

82 

79 

76 

74 

60 

77 

73 

80 

78 

72 

71 

70 

69 

rces rsn i SH/UU X 

MV Componen 

Fuel 

Count 

712 

2120 

2750 

3705 

2678 

3060 

3520 

2854 

3648 

3784 

1505 

1253 

3983 

820 

3738 

4141 

496 

313 

180 

141 

System 

% 

1.6 

4.6 

6.0 

8.1 

5.9 

6.7 

7.7 

6.3 

8.0 

8.3 

3.3 

2.7 

8.7 

1.8 

8.2 

9.1 

1.1 

0.7 

0.4 

0.3 

t Failures 

Total 

Count 

1722 

6302 

9233 

15254 

12281 

14434 

17247 

13977 

20942 

22113 

8837 

7425 

24582 

5243 

24416 

28053 

3623 

2340 

1533 

1535 

% 

0.7 

2.6 

3.8 

6.3 

5.0 

5.9 

7.1 

5.7 

8.6 

9.1 

3.6 

3.0 

10.1 

2.2 

10.0 

11.5 

1.5 

1.0 

0.6 

0.6 

Fuel System 

Failure 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

41.3 

33.6 

29.8 

24.3 

21.8 

21.2 

20.4 

20.4 

17.4 

17.1 

17.0 

16.9 

16.2 

15.6 

15.3 

14.8 

13.7 

13.4 

11.7 

9.2 

All 44408 100.0 236233 100.0 18.8 
P.94 

Table 62. Counts of MV Fuel System Failures in Comparison 

with All Failures; Fuel System Failure Rates 

per 100 Total, as a Function of Vehicle Make; 

\aource: 

Vehicle Make 

AUDI 

VOLVO 

VOLKSWAGEN 

HONDA 

DATSUN 

DODGE 

CHRYSLER 

PLYMOUTH 

TOYOTA 

MAZDA 

LINCOLN 

FORD TRUCK 

FORD 

JEEP 

CADILLAC 

DODGE TRUCK 

MERCURY 

OLDSMOBILE 

FIAT 

AMERICAN MOTORS 

SUBARU 

BUICK 

PONTIAC 

CHEVROLET 

GMC 

CHEVROLET TRUCK 

ALL MAKES 

MV Component Failures 

• 

Fuel 

Count 

797 

833 

3049 

945 

713 

3578 

1637 

3689 

244 

371 

1838 

5131 

421 

1053 

812 

1828 

2837 

514 

979 

315 

2415 

2043 

4718 

236 

818 

44408 

System 

•/. 

1.7 

1.8 

6.7 

2.1 

1.6 

7.8 

3.6 

8.1 

1.7 

0.5 

0.8 

4.0 

11.2 

0.9 

2.3 

1.8 

4.0 

6.2 

1.1 

2.1 

0.7 

5.3 

4.5 

10.3 

0.5 

1.8 

100.0 

Tot 

Count 

2623 

2753 

10802 

4039 

3073 

16051 

7381 

16713 

3805 

1237 

1991 

9927 

27935 

2320 

5803 

4508 

10577 

16543 

3140 

6134 

1987 

15345 

13115 

32722 

1808 

6257 

236233 

al 

7. 

1.1 

1.1 

4.4 

1.7 

1.3 

6.6 

3.0 

6.9 

1.6 

0.5 

0.8 

4.1 

11.5 

1.0 

2.4 

1.9 

4.3 

6.8 

1.3 

2.5 

0.8 

6.3 

5.4 

13.4 

0.7 

2.6 

100.0 

Fuel System 

Failure 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

30.4 

30.3 

28.2 

23.4 

23.2 

22.3 

22.2 

22.1 

19.8 

19.7 

18.6 

18.5 

18.4 

18.1 

18.1 

18.0 

17.3 

17.1 

16.4 

16.0 

15.9 

15.7 

15.6 

14.4 

13.1 

13.1 

18.8 
Table 63. 

Vehicle Mode] 

RELIANT 

ARIES 

VALIANT 

MERCURY 

ECONOLINE 

TYPE III 

TEMPO 

RABBIT 

ACCORD 

DART 

LEBARON 

ESCORT 

COROLLA 

AUDI 

DELTA 88 

OLDS 98 

THUNDERBIRD 

OMNI 

VOLARE 

CIVIC 

ASPEN 

LTD 

PINTO 

LESABRE 

CHEVY II 

HORIZON 

FURY 

B SERIES VAN 

ELECTRA 

MUSTANG 

CORDOBA 

CHEVELLE 

FIREBIRD 

CADILLAC 

CENTURY 

CAVALIER 

Counts of MV Fuel 

with All Failures 

per IOO Total, as 

System 

; Fuel 

Failures in 

System 

a Function of 

(Source: NHTSA/ODI Files 

MV Component 

Fuel System 

L Count 

588 

490 

573 

613 

743 

416 

346 

1747 

549 

465 

559 

683 

284 

288 

624 

289 

452 

758 

1105 

332 

829 

788 

436 

316 

285 

823 

249 

391 

225 

475 

362 

603 

286 

371 

978 

287 

•/• 

1.3 

1.1 

1.3 

1.3 

1.6 

0.9 

0.8 

3.8 

1.2 

1.0 

1.2 

1.5 

0.6 

0.6 

1 .4 

0.6 

1.0 

1.7 

2.4 

0.7 

1.8 

1.7 

1.0 

0.7 

0.6 

1.8 

0.5 

0.9 

0.5 

1.0 

0.8 

1.3 

0.6 

0.8 

2.1 

0.6 

N 

Comparison 

Failure Rates 

Vehic 

Failures 

Tota 

Count 

1833 

1542 

1971 

2127 

2595 

1455 

1229 

6386 

2001 

1730 

2305 

2823 

1265 

1284 

2811 

1417 

2235 

3805 

5652 

1693 

4347 

4187 

2314 

1686 

1548 

4505 

1369 

2152 

1233 

2626 

2013 

3428 

1621 

2173 

5864 

1742 

1 

7. 

0.8 

0.6 

0.8 

0.9 

1.1 

0.6 

0.5 

2.6 

0.8 

0.7 

0.9 

1.2 

0.5 

0.5 

1.2 

0.6 

0.9 

1.6 

2.3 

0.7 

1.8 

1.7 

0.9 

0.7 

0.6 

1.8 

0.6 

0.9 

0.5 

1.1 

0.8 

1.4 

0.7 

0.9 

2.4 

0.7 

:le Model; 

Fuel System 

Failure 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

32.1 

31.8 

29.1 

28.8 

28.6 

28.6 

28.2 

27.4 

27.4 

26.9 

24.3 

24.2 

22.5 

22.4 

22.2 

20.4 

20.2 

19.9 

19.6 

19.6 

19.1 

18.8 

18.8 

18.7 

18.4 

18.3 

18.2 

18.2 

18.2 

18.1 

18.0 

17.6 

17.6 

17.1 

16.7 

16.5 

P.95 
P.96 

Table 63. (Cont'd) 

Vehicle Model 

MV Component Failures Fuel System 

Failure 

Fuel System Total Rate in 

Descending 

Count */• Count */. Percent 

CUTLASS 

BONNEVILLE 

SUBARU 

PICK UP CNK SERIES 

COUGAR 

CAMARO 

MONTE CARLO 

FAIRMONT 

CHEVETTE 

F SERIES LIGHT TRK 

MUSTANG I I 

CAPRICE 

GRANADA 

SKYLARK 

MONZA 

PHOENIX 

GRAND PRIX 

CELEBRITY 

OMEGA 

CITATION 

TORINO 

CAPRI 

1153 

237 

296 

243 

241 

338 

325 

402 

689 

735 

195 

694 

390 

589 

230 

312 

237 

196 

290 

669 

124 

215 

2.5 

0.5 

0.6 

0.5 

0.5 

0.7 

0.7 

0.9 

1.5 

1.6 

0.4 

1.5 

0.9 

1.3 

0.5 

0.7 

0.5 

0.4 

0.6 

1.5 

0.3 

0.5 

6998 

1460 

1841 

1533 

1542 

2164 

2155 

2675 

4599 

5122 

1376 

4918 

2863 

4325 

1729 

2353 

1789 

1536 

2340 

6334 

1253 

2489 

2.9 

0.6 

0.8 

0.6 

0.6 

0.9 

0.9 

1.1 

1.9 

2.1 

0.6 

2.0 

1.2 

1.8 

0.7 

1.0 

0.7 

0.6 

1.0 

2.6 

0.5 

1.0 

16.5 

16.2 

16.1 

15.9 

15.6 

15.6 

15.1 

15.0 

15.0 

14.3 

14.2 

14.1 

13.6 

13.6 

13.3 

13.3 

13.2 

12.8 

12.4 

10.6 

9.9 

8.6 

ALL VEHICLE MODELS 44408 100.0 236233 100.0 18.8 
Table 64. Counts of MV Fuel Emission Control Failures 

in Comparison with All Failures; Fuel Emission 

Control Failure Rates per 100 Total, as a Function 

of Model Year; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files) 

MV Component Failures Fuel Emss Contr1 

Model 

Year 

74 

75 

73 

79 

60 

77 

78 

83 

71 

76 

84 

86 

82 

81 

87 

80 

70 

72 

85 

All 

Fuel Emss Con 

Count 

31 

50 

13 

48 

16 

54 

55 

25 

4 

37 

26 

10 

19 

22 

2 

25 

1 

2 

6 

446 

y. 

6.9 

11.2 

2.9 

10.7 

3.6 

12.1 

12.3 

5.6 

0.9 

8.3 

5.8 

2.2 

4.3 

4.9 

0.4 

5.6 

0.2 

0.4 

1.3 

100.0 

tri Total 

Count 

8837 

14434 

5243 

20942 

7425 

24582 

28053 

12281 

2340 

22113 

15254 

6302 

13977 

17247 

1722 

24416 

1533 

3623 

9233 

239557 

% 

3.6 

5.9 

2.2 

8.6 

3.0 

10.1 

11.5 

5.0 

1.0 

9.1 

6.3 

2.6 

5.7 

7.1 

0.7 

10.0 

0.6 

1.5 

3.8 

lOO.O 

Failure 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

0.35 

0.35 

0.25 

0.23 

0.22 

0.22 

0.20 

0.20 

0.17 

0.17 

0.17 

0.16 

0.14 

0.13 

0.12 

0.10 

0.07 

0.06 

0.06 

0.186 
P.98 

Table 65. Counts of MV Fuel Emission Control Failures 

in Comparison with All Failures; Fuel Emission 

Control Failure Rates per 100 Total, as a Function 

of Vehicle Make; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files) 

MV Component Failures Fuel Emss Contr1 

•.— Failure 

Fuel Emss Contr1 Total Rate in 

Descending 

Vehicle Make Count */. Count 7. Percent 

SUBARU 

JEEP 

MAZDA 

DATSUN 

HONDA 

VOLVO 

VOLKSWAGEN 

FIAT 

PLYMOUTH 

FORD 

TOYOTA 

LINCOLN 

AMERICAN MOTORS 

DODGE TRUCK 

PONTIAC 

CHRYSLER 

DODGE 

CHEVROLET 

CADILLAC 

MERCURY 

FORD TRUCK 

CHEVROLET TRUCK 

BUICK 

OLDSMOBILE 

AUDI 

GMC 

ALL MAKES 

10 

11 

5 

11 

14 

9 

30 

8 

39 

59 

8 

4 

11 

8 

22 

11 

24 

50 

8 

12 

11 

7 

16 

17 

2 

1 

408 

2.2 

2.5 

1.1 

2.5 

3.1 

2.0 

6.7 

1.8 

8.7 

13.2 

1.8 

0.9 

2.5 

1.8 

4.9 

2.5 

5.4 

U . 2 

1.8 

2.7 

2.5 

1.6 

3.6 

3.8 

0.4 

0.2 

100.0 

1987 

2320 

1237 

3073 

4039 

2753 

10802 

3140 

16713 

27935 

3305 

1991 

6134 

4508 

13115 

7381 

16051 

32722 

5803 

10577 

9927 

6257 

15345 

16543 

2623 

1808 

228589 

0.8 

1.0 

0.5 

1.3 

1.7 

1.1 

4.4 

1.3 

6.9 

11.5 

1 .6 

0.8 

2.5 

1.9 

5.4 

3.0 

6.6 

13.4 

2.4 

4.3 

4.1 

2.6 

6.3 

6.8 

1,1 

0.7 

100.0 

0.50 

0.47 

0.40 

0.36 

0.35 

0.33 

0.28 

0.25 

0.23 

0.21 

0.21 

0.20 

0.18 

0.18 

0. 17 

0.15 

0.15 

0.15 

0.14 

0.11 

0.11 

0.11 

0.10 

0.10 

0.08 

0.06 

0.18 
P.99 

Table 66. Reference to Tecnical Bulletins Issued by MV 

Mfrs Concerning Vehicle Components in Need of 

Attention. Counts of MV Fuel Systems in 

Comparison with All Components; Fuel System 

Incidence Rates per 100 Total, as a Function 

of Model Year; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files); 

Model 

Year 

77 

81 

80 

83 

84 

82 

85 

76 

75 

79 

78 

73 

68 

71 

Unkn 

86 

74 

87 

72 

70 

67 

69 

MV C 

Fuel 

Count 

607 

914 

838 

822 

920 

909 

703 

351 

460 

404 

502 

328 

241 

280 

4839 

361 

158 

163 

180 

194 

67 

141 

omponen 

System 

7. 

4.2 

6.3 

5.8 

5.7 

6.4 

6.3 

4.9 

2.4 

3.2 

2.8 

3.5 

2.3 

1.7 

1.9 

33.5 

2.5 

1.1 

1.1 

1.2 

1.3 

0.5 

1.0 

t Incidence 

Total 

Count 

2288 

3484 

3532 

3474 

4083 

4219 

3537 

1785 

2551 

2302 

2995 

2156 

1608 

1980 

36020 

2717 

1386 

1449 

1625 

1803 

784 

1672 

*/• 

2.6 

4.0 

4.0 

3.9 

4.6 

4.8 

4.0 

2.0 

2.9 

2.6 

3.4 

2.4 

1.8 

2.2 

40.9 

3.1 

1.6 

1.6 

1.8 

2.0 

0.9 

1.9 

Fuel System 

Incidence 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

26.53 

26.23 

23.73 

23.66 

22.53 

21.55 

19.88 

19.66 

18.03 

17.55 . 

16.76 

15.21 

14.99 

14.14 

13.43 

13.29 

11 .40 

11.25 

11.08 

10.76 

8.55 

8.43 

All 14447 100.0 88008 100.0 16.4 
p.1 

Table 67. Reference to Tecnical Bulletins Issued by MV 

Mfrs, Concerning Vehicle Components in Need of 

Attention. Counts of MV Fuel Systems in 

Comparison with All Components; Fuel System 

Incidence Rates per 100 Total, as a Function 

of Vehicle Make; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files); 

Vehicle Make 

PLYMOUTH TRUCK 

CHRYSLER 

PLYMOUTH 

DODGE TRUCK 

DODGE 

VOLVO 

FORD TRUCK 

AUDI 

JEEP 

MERCURY 

VOLKSWAGEN 

JAGUAR 

FORD 

PONTIAC 

CHEVROLET 

SAAB 

CADILLAC 

CHEVROLET TRUCK 

PORSCHE 

AMERICAN MOTORS 

LINCOLN 

BUICK 

OLDSMOBILE 

AMERICAN MOTORS 

MAZDA 

SUBARU 

FORD ENGLISH 

BMW 

GMC 

TOYOTA 

MERCEDES 

FIAT 

ROLLS ROYCE 

MV Component Incidence 

Fuel System Total 

Count •/, Count V. 

Fuel System 

Incidence 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

239 

395 

566 

403 

649 

315 

868 

208 

151 

llll 

446 

94 

1163 

525 

537 

164 

289 

262 

159 

163 

445 

444 

500 

78 

102 

62 

113 

144 

325 

262 

191 

67 

60 

1.7 

2.8 

4.0 

2.8 

4.6 

2.2 

6.1 

1.5 

1.1 

7.8 

3.1 

0.7 

8.2 

3.7 

3.8 

1.2 

2.0 

1.8 

1.1 

1.1 

3.1 

3.1 

3.5 

0.5 

0.7 

0.4 

0.8 

1.0 

2.3 

1.8 

1.3 

0.5 

0.4 

792 

1536 

2347 

1684 

2926 

1589 

4421 

1113 

813 

6069 

2496 

530 

6578 

2988 

3150 

985 

1739 

1634 

1019 

1080 

2959 

2958 

3491 

560 

733 

447 

816 

1044 

2474 

2021 

1545 

548 

793 

0.9 

1.8 

2.7 

2.0 

3.4 

1.8 

5.1 

1.3 

0.9 

7.0 

2.9 

0.6 

7.6 

3.5 

3.7 

1.1 

2.0 

1.9 

1.2 

1.3 

3.4 

3.4 

4.0 

0.6 

0.8 

0.5 

0.9 

1.2 

2.9 

2.3 

1.8 

0.6 

0.9 

30.13 

25.72 

24.12 

23.93 

22.18 

19.82 

19.63 

18.69 

18.57 

18.31 

17.87 

17.74 

17.68 

17.57 

17.05 

16.65 

16.62 

16.03 

15.60 

15.09 

15.04 

15.01 

14.32 

13.93 

13.92 

13.87 

13.85 

13.79 

13.14 

12.96 

12.36 

12.23 

7.57 

ALL MAKES 14447 100.0 88008 100.0 16.4 
P.2 

Table 68. Reference to Tecnical Bulletins Issued by MV Mfrs, 

Concerning Vehicle Components in Need of Attention. 

Counts of MV Fuel Emission Control Systems in 

Comparison with All Components; Fuel Emission Control 

Incidence Rates per 100 Total, as a Function of 

Model Year; (Source: NHTSA/ODI Files); 

MV Component Incidence Fuel Emss Contr1 

: j n c j dence 

Fuel Emss Contr1 Total Rate in 

Model : Descending 

Year Count 7. Count % Percent 

____ 

79 

77 

82 

81 

83 

78 

73 

74 

75 

80 

84 

76 

68 

85 

Unkn 

70 

71 

87 

86 

72 

67 

69 

All 

_____ 

60 

55 

90 

74 

69 

52 

34 

21 

34 

42 

42 

17 

14 

27 

212 

9 

8 

5 

9 

5 

2 

1 

882 

——— 

6.8 

6.2 

10.2 

8.4 

7.8 

5.9 

3.9 

2.4 

3.9 

4.8 

4.8 

1.9 

1.6 

3.1 

24.0 

1.0 

0.9 

0.6 

1.0 

0.6 

0.2 

0.1 

100.0 

2302 

2288 

4219 

3484 

3474 

2995 

2156 

1386 

2551 

3532 

4083 

1785 

1608 

3537 

36020 

1803 

1980 

1449 

2717 

1625 

784 

1672 

88008 

— — — 

2.6 

2.6 

4.8 

4.0 

3.9 

3.4 

2.4 

1 .6 

2.9 

4.0 

4.6 

2.0 

1.8 

4.0 

40.9 

2.0 

2.2 

1.6 

3.1 

1.8 

0.9 

1.9 

100.0 

2.61 

2.40 

2.13 

2.12 

1 .99 

1.74 

1.58 

1.52 

1.33 

1.19 

1 •- 03 

0.95 

0.87 

0.76 

0.59 

0.50 

0.40 

0.35 

0.33 

0.31 

0.26 

0.06 

1.00 
P.3 

1 

* * 

Table 69. Reference to 

Concerning Ve 

Counts of MV 

Comparison wi 

Incidence Rat 

Vehicle Make; 

, 

Fu 

Vehicle Make 

PLYMOUTH TRUCK 

CHRYSLER 

PLYMOUTH 

DODGE TRUCK 

DODGE 

FORD TRUCK 

VOLKSWAGEN 

FIAT 

SUBARU 

CHEVROLET 

CHEVROLET TRUCK 

FORD 

GMC 

MAZDA 

JAGUAR 

TOYOTA 

CADILLAC 

MERCURY 

PONTIAC 

BMW 

AMERICAN MOTORS 

JEEP 

BUICK 

CHRYSLER 

PORSCHE 

MERCEDES BENZ 

LINCOLN 

SAAB 

VOLVO 

OLDSMOBILE 

ROLLS ROYCE 

AUDI 

ALL MAKES 

Tecnica 1 Bulle 

hicle Componen 

Fuel Em 

th All 

es per 

ission 

tins I 

ts in 

Contrc 

ssued 

Need c 

1 Syst 

Components; Fuel Eff 

100 Tot al, as 

(Source: NHTSA/ODI 

MV Co 

el Emss 

-

Count 

29 

53 

67 

40 

60 

81 

41 

8 

6 

38 

19 

64 

24 

7 

5 

19 

16 

50 

24 

8 

8 

6 

20 

3 

6 

9 

17 

5 

8 

17 

3 

4 

mponent 

Contr1 

% 

3.3 

6.0 

7.6 

4.5 

6.8 

9.2 

4.7 

0.9 

0.7 

4.3 

2.2 

7.3 

2.7 

0.8 

0.6 

2.2 

1.8 

5.7 

2.7 

0.9 

0.9 

0.7 

2.3 

0.3 

0.7 

1.0 

1.9 

0.6 

0.9 

1.9 

0.3 

0.5 

882 100.0 

Incid 

Tot 

Count 

792 

1536 

2347 

1684 

2926 

4421 

£496 

548 

4 47 

3150 

1634 

6578 

2474 

733 

530 

2021 

1739 

6069 

2988 

1044 

1080 

813 

2958 

489 

1019 

1545 

2959 

985 

1589 

3491 

793 

1113 

88008 

by 

f 

- MV Mfrs, 

Attention. 

;ems in 

lission Control 

a Funct 

Files) 

ence 

al 

*/. 

0.9 

1.8 

2.7 

2.0 

3.4 

5.1 

2.9 

0.6 

0.5 

3.7 

1.9 

7.6 

2.9 

0.8 

0.6 

2.3 

2.0 

7.0 

3.5 

1.2 

1.3 

0.9 

3.4 

0.6 

1.2 

1.8 

3.4 

1.1 

1.8 

4.0 

0.9 

1.3 

100.0 

; 

ion of 

Fuel Emss Contr1 

±iIL. lueiite 

Rate in 

Descending 

Percent 

3.66 

3.45 

2.85 

2.38 

2.05 

1.83 

1 .64 

1.46 

1.34 

1.21 

1.16 

0.97 

0.97 

0.95 

0.94 

0.94 

0.92 

0.82 

0.80 

0.77 

0.74 

0.74 

0.68 

0.61 

0.59 

0.58 

0.57 

0.51 

0.50 

0.49 

0.38 

0.36 

1 .00 
P.4 

Table 70. Frequency of Fuel System Component Failures 

in Motor Vehicle Owner Complaints (NHTSA/ODI Files) 

Vehicle Make 

Fuel System — 

Count Percent 

Fuel System as % 

of All Component:-

FORD 

CHEVROLET 

PLYMOUTH 

DODGE 

VOLKSWAGEN 

OLDSMOBILE 

BUICK 

PONTIAC 

FORD-TRUCK 

MERCURY 

CHRYSLER 

CADILLAC 

AMERICAN-MOTORS 

HONDA 

VOLVO 

CHEVROLET-TRUCK 

DODGE-TRUCK 

AUDI 

TOYOTA 

DATSUN 

FIAT 

JEEP 

NISSAN 

LINCOLN 

SUBARU 

SAAB 

MAZDA 

GMC 

MERCEDES 

BMW 

PORSCHE 

RENAULT 

PEUGEOT 

TRIUMPH.... 

MG 

PLYMOUTH-TRUCK 

INTERNATIONAL 

JAGUAR 

TOYOTA-TRUCK 

DATSUN-TRUCK 

OPEL 

ISUZU 

ALFA-ROMEO 

LANCIA 

MITSUBISHI 

5131 

4718 

3689 

3578 

3049 

2837 

2415 

2043 

1838 

1828 

1637 

1053 

979 

945 

833 

818 

812 

797-

755 

713 

514 

421 

382 

371 

315 

267 

244 

236 

234 

210 

200 

198 

153 

139 

121 

112 

99 

88 

85 

69 

61 

56 

47 

47 

44 

11.4 

10.4 

8.2 

7.9 

6.7 

6.3 

5.3 

4.5 

4.1 

4.0 

3.6 

2.3 

2.2 

2.1 

1.8 

1.8 

1.8 

1.8 

1.7 

1.6 

1.1 

0.9 

0.8 

0.8 

0.7 

0.6 

0.5 

0.5 

0.5 

0.5 

0.4 

0.4 

0.3 

0.3 

0.3 

0.2 

0.2 

0.2 

0.2 

0.2 

0.1 

0.1 

0.1 

0.1 

0.1 

18 

14 

22 

22 

28 

17 

15 

15 

18 

17 

22 

18 

16 

23 

30 

13 

18 

30 

19 

23 

16 

18 

37 

18 

15 

25. 

19. 

13. 

32. 

26. 

29. 

17. 

18. 

15. 

23. 

20. 

15. 

29. 

13. 

17. 

33. 

31. 

33. 

20. 

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2 

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9 

4 

7 

1 

5 

4 

2 

4 

7 

4 

4 

6 

9 

8 

0 

4 

0 

1 

6 

0 

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Table 73. Frequency of Fuel System Components Appearing 

in NHTSA MV Defects Investigations (NHTSA/ODI Files) . 

Fuel System Fuel System as % 

Vehicle Make Count Percent of All Components; 

FORD 

GM 

CHRYSLER 

VW 

AMC 

IHC 

NISSAN 

VOLVO 

TOYOTA 

BMW 

HONDA 

SAAB 

MERCEDES 

FIAT 

RENAULT 

SUBARU 

MAZDA 

PEUGEOT 

46 

43 

20 

15 

13 

12 

11 

11 

10 

9 

7 

5 

4 

3 

3 

3 

2 

2 

21.0 

19.6 

9.1 

6.8 

5.9 

5.5 

5.0 

5.0 

4.6 

4.1 

3.2 

2.3 

1.8 

1.4 

1.4 

1.4 

0.9 

0.9 

19.9 

15.7 

15.6 

27.8 

21.3 

22.2 

32.4 

55.0 

30.3 

47.4 

18.4 

29.4 

30.8 

20.0 

42.9 

21.4 

20.0 

18.2 

All 219 100.0 21.2 
P.8 

Table 74. List of Codes, Counts, and Percent Distribution 

of Fuel Related MV Components, Reported as 

Failing in Owner Complaints, 

Irrespective of Fire (NHTSA/ODI Files) 

## Code Count Percent Decoded Name 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

14 

15 

16 

17 

18 

19 

20 

21 

22 

23 

24 

25 

26 

27 

28 

29 

30 

31 

32 

33 

34 

35 

36 

37 

38 

39 

40 

41 

42 

43 

44 

6000000 

6010000 

6011000 

6011030 

6011080 

6011090 

6012000 

6012010 

6012020 

6014000 

6015000 

6016000 

6017000 

6019000 

6100000 

6110000 

6111000 

6112000 

6113000 

6114000 

6115000 

6116000 

6116010 

6120000 

6121000 

6122000 

6123000 

6124000 

6125000 

6130000 

6131000 

6132000 

6133000 

6134000 

6135000 

6136000 

6140000 

6140010 

6140020 

6160000 

6200000 

6210000 

6211000 

6212000 

2729 

4 

3 

1 

1 

1 

31 

7 

13 

5 

30 

45 

2 

1 

2077 

1028 

183 

342 

2032 

242 

218 

16 

5 

241 

55 

4 

67 

78 

2 

628 

188 

706 

50 

32 

219 

1578 

204 

15 

10 

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0.03 

0.01 

0.07 

0.10 

0.00 

0.00 

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2.27 

0.40 

0.76 

4.50 

0.54 

0.48 

0.04 

0.01 

0.53 

0.12 

0.01 

0.15 

0.17 

0.00 

1.39 

0.42 

1.56 

0.11 

0.07 

0.48 

3.49 

0.45 

0.03 

0.02 

0.30 

14.95 

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0.12 

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FUEL SYSTEMS IN GENERAL 

LPG LPG GASOLINE FUEL SYSTEM 

LPG CONTAINER TANK ASSEMBLY 

LPG VALVE LIQUID FILL 

LPG GAUGE FLOAT SENDER 

LPG VALVE VAPOR SERVICE 

LPG LINES FITTINGS SYSTEMS 

LPG LINES PIPES METALLIC 

LPG LINES NON METALLIC 

LPG VAPORIZER REGULATOR CONVERTER 

LPG CARBURETOR 

LPG GASOLINE CARBURETOR 

LPG PANEL DASHBOARD CONTROL 

LPG OTHER PARTS 

FUEL SYSTEMS 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY CAP FILLER 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY PIPE FILLER NECK 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY TANK 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY GAUGE FUEL 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY ATTACHMENTS 

FUEL TANK AUXILLARY 

FUEL TANK AUXILLARY SELECTOR N SWITCH 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL LINES VAPOR VENT 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL VALVE OVERFILL L 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL CANISTER 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL VALVE 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL RETARDER 

FUEL LINES FITTINGS AND PUMP 

FUEL LINES METALLIC 

FUEL LINES HOSES NON METALLIC -

FUEL LINES FITTINGS METALLIC 

FUEL LINES FITTINGS NON METALLIC 

FUEL FILTER LINE 

FUEL PUMP 

FUEL SYSTEM OTHER PARTS 

FUEL SYSTEM WATER FUEL DETECTION SYSTE 

FUEL SEPARATOR 8 82 

TURBO CHARGER 

FUEL CARBURETION 

CARBURETOR UNKNOWN TYPE 

CARBURETOR UNKNOWN TYPE CLEANER 

CARBURETOR UNKNOWN TYPE MANIFOLD INTAK 
P.9 

Table 74 (Cont'd) 

## Code Count Percent Decoded Name 

45 

46 

47 

48 

49 

50 

51 

52 

53 

54 

55 

56 

57 

58 

59 

60 

61 

62 

63 

64 

65 

66 

67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

79 

80 

81 

82 

83 

84 

85 

86 

87 

88 

89 

90 

91 

92 

6212100 

6213000 

6220000 

6221000 

6222000 

6222100 

6223000 

6230000 

6231000 

6232000 

6232100 

6233000 

6240000 

6241000 

6242000 

6242100 

6243000 

6250000 

6260000 

6300000 

6310000 

6311000 

6312000 

6313000 

6314000 

6315000 

6316000 

6317000 

6320000 

6321000 

6322000 

6323000 

6324000 

6325000 

6326000 

6327000 

6330000 

6331000 

6332000 

6333000 

6334000 

6335000 

6336000 

6337000 

6340000 

6341000 

6342000 

6344000 

734 

687 

78 

3 

4 

21 

39 

167 

8 

10 

15 

54 

107 

1 

3 

6 

58 

23 

1 

705 

984 

10 

159 

196 

106 

11 

16 

289 

497 

3 

31 

28 

24 

6 

2 

54 

19 

1 

4 

4 

6 

1 • 

2 

7 

4 

1 

2 

1 

1.62 

1.52 

0.17 

0.01 

0.01 

0.05 

0.09 

0.37 

0.02 

0.02 

0.03 

0.12 

0.24 

0.00 

0.01 

0.01 

0.13 

0.05 

0.00 

1.56 

2.18 

0.02 

0.35 

0.43 

0.23 

0.02 

0.04 

0.64 

1.10 

0.01 

0.07 

0.06 

0.05 

0.01 

0.00 

0.12 

0.04 

0.00 

0.01 

0.01 

0.01 

0.00 

0.00 

0.02 

0.01 

0.00 

0.00 

0.00 

CARBURETOR UNKNOWN TYPE CHOKE 

CARBURETOR UNKOWN TYPE OTHER PART 

CARBURETOR SINGLE BARREL 

CARBURETOR SINGLE CLEANER 

CARBURETOR SINGLE MANIFOLD INTAKE 

CARBURETOR SINGLE CHOKE 

CARBURETOR SINGLE OTHER PART 

CARBURETOR DOUBLE BARREL 

CARBURETOR DOUBLE CLEANER 

CARBURETOR DOUBLE MANIFOLD INTAKE 

CARBURETOR DOUBLE CHOKE 

CARBURETOR DOUBLE OTHER PART 

CARBURETOR FOUR BARREL 

CARBURETOR FOUR BARREL CLEANER 

CARBURETOR FOUR BARREL MANIFOLD INTAKE 

CARBURETOR FOUR CHOKE 

CARBURETOR FOUR BARREL OTHER PART 

CARBURETION OTHER PART 

CARBURETOR PROPANE GAS 

FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM 

FUEL INJECTION UNKNOWN TYPE 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE INJECTION MANI 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE LINE HOSE 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE ACCUMULATOR 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE DISTRIBUTOR 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE REGULATOR 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE VALVE START 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE INJECTOR 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRICAL 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC INJECTION MANI 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC LINE HOSE 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC ACCUMULATOR 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC DISTRIBUTOR 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC REGULATOR 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC VALVE START 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC INJECTOR 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL INJ MANIFOLD 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL LINE HOSE 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL ACCULULATOR 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL DISTRIBUTOR 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL REGULATOR 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL VALVE START 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL INJECTOR 

FUEL INJECTION CONTINUOUS 

FUEL INJECTION CONTINUOUS INJ MANIFOLD 

FUEL INJECTION CONTINUOUS LINE HOSE 

FUEL INJECTION CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTOR 
P.10 

Table 74 (Concluded) 

## Code Count Percent Decoded Name 

93 

94 

95 

96 

97 

98 

99 

100 

101 

102 

103 

104 

105 

106 

107 

108 

109 

110 

111 

112 

113 

114 

115 

116 

117 

118 

6347000 

6350000 

6351000 

6351100 

6400000 

6410000 

6420000 

6430000 

6440000 

6450000 

6460000 

6470000 

6500000 

6510000 

6520000 

6530000 

6540000 

6600000 

6610000 

6610001 

6620000 

6630000 

6640000 

6650000 

6651000 

6652000 

8 

57 

149 

14 

4598 

687 

178 

937 

79 

84 

63 

4 

366 

128 

80 

130 

349 

1464 

581 

92 

426 

705 

226 

817 

831 

44 

0 

0 

0 

0 

10 

1 

0 

2 

0. 

0 

0. 

0. 

0. 

0. 

0. 

0. 

0. 

3. 

1. 

0. 

0. 

1. 

0. 

1. 

1. 

0. 

.02 

.13 

.33 

03 

.17 

52 

39 

07 

17 

19 

14 

01 

81 

28 

18 

29 

77 

24 

29 

20 

94 

56 

50 

81 

84 

10 

FUEL INJECTION CONTINUOUS INJECTOR 

FUEL INJECTION OTHER PARTS 

FUEL INJECTION IDLE SPEED CONTROL UNIT 

FUEL INJECTION IDLE SPEED CONTROL VALV 

THROTTLE LINKAGES AND CONTROL 

THROTTLE LINKAGES AND CONTROL PEDAL 

THROTTLE LINKAGES ACCELERATOR RIGID 

THROTTLE LINKAGES ACCELERATOR FLEXIBLE 

THROTTLE LINKAGES N CONTROL CAM FAST I 

THRTL LNKG N CTRL SOLENOID VLVS SWCH B 

THRTL LNKG N CNTRL RETURN SPRING 

THRTL LNKG N CNTRL MOTORCYCLE 

EXHAUST CRANKCASE EMISSION CONTROL DEV 

EXHST CRNKCSE EMISSION CNTRL PUMP AIR 

EXHST CRNKCSE EMISSION CNTRL HOSES LIN 

EXHST CRNKCSE EMISSION CNTRL CHECK VAL 

EGR VALVE 

EXHAUST SYSTEM 

EXHAUST SYSTEM MANIFOLD ENGINE 

EXHAUST SYSTEM MANIFOLD OXYGEN SENS 

EXHAUST SYSTEM PIPE EXHAUST 

EXHAUST SYSTEM MUFFLER RESONATOR 

EXHAUST SYSTEM TAIL PIPE 

CATALYTIC CONVERTER SYSTEM 

CONVERTER 

SENSOR CONTROL UNIT 

All 45200 100.00 All 
P.11 

Table 75. List of Codes, Counts, and Percent Distribution 

of Fuel Related MV Components, Reported as 

Failing in Owner Complaints, 

with Fire Occurrence (NHTSA/ODI Files) 

## Code Count Percent Decoded Name 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

6 

7 

8 

9 

10 

11 

12 

13 

14 

15 

16 

17 

18 

19 

20 

21 

22 

23 

24 

25 

26 

27 

28 

29 

30 

31 

32 

33 

34 

35 

36 

37 

38 

39 

40 

41 

6000000 

6010000 

6012000 

6012010 

6012020 

6015000 

6016000 

6100000 

6110000 

6111000 

6112000 

6113000 

6115000 

6116000 

6116010 

6120000 

6121000 

6123000 

6124000 

6130000 

6131000 

6132000 

6133000 

6134000 

6135000 

6136000 

6140000 

6160000 

6200000 

6210000 

6211000 

6212000 

6212100 

6213000 

6220000 

6223000 

6230000 

6231000 

6233000 

6240000 

6241000 

104 

2 

11 

1 

4 

2 

4 

407 

70 

12 

12 

107 

2 

1 

1 

8 

4 

8 

3 

171 

42 

163 

8 

11 

27 

32 

14 

11 

413 

246 

7 

7 

15 

35 

1 

1 

11 

1 

1 

16 

1 

3.65 

0.07 

0.39 

0.04 

0.14 

0.07 

0.14 

14.28 

2.46 

0.42 

0.42 

3.75 

0.07 

0.04 

0.04 

0.28 

0.14 

0.28 

0.11 

6.00 

1.47 

5.72 

0.28 

0.39 

0.95 

1.12 

0.49 

0.39 

14.49 

8.63 

0.25 

0.25 

0.53 

1.23 

0.04 

0.04 

0.39 

0.04 

0.04 

0.56 

0.04 

FUEL SYSTEMS IN GENERAL 

LPG LPG GASOLINE FUEL SYSTEM 

LPG LINES FITTINGS SYSTEMS 

LPG LINES PIPES METALLIC 

LPG LINES NON METALLIC 

LPG CARBURETOR 

LPG GASOLINE CARBURETOR 

FUEL SYSTEMS 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY CAP FILLER 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY PIPE FILLER NECK 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY TANK 

FUEL TANK ASSEMBLY ATTACHMENTS 

FUEL TANK AUXILLARY 

FUEL TANK AUXILLARY SELECTOR N SWITCH 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL LINES VAPOR VENT 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL CANISTER 

FUEL EMISSION CONTROL VALVE 

FUEL LINES FITTINGS AND PUMP 

FUEL LINES METALLIC 

FUEL LINES HOSES NON METALLIC 

FUEL LINES FITTINGS METALLIC 

FUEL LINES FITTINGS NON METALLIC 

FUEL- FILTER LINE 

FUEL PUMP 

FUEL SYSTEM OTHER PARTS 

TURBO CHARGER 

FUEL CARBURETION 

CARBURETOR-UNKNOWN TYPE . _ 

CARBURETOR UNKNOWN TYPE CLEANER 

CARBURETOR UNKNOWN TYPE MANIFOLD INTAKE 

CARBURETOR UNKNOWN TYPE CHOKE 

CARBURETOR UNKOWN TYPE OTHER PART 

CARBURETOR SINGLE BARREL 

CARBURETOR SINGLE OTHER PART 

CARBURETOR DOUBLE BARREL 

CARBURETOR DOUBLE CLEANER 

CARBURETOR DOUBLE OTHER PART 

CARBURETOR FOUR BARREL 

CARBURETOR FOUR BARREL CLEANER 
P.12 

Table 75 (Concluded) 

## Code Count Percent Decoded Name 

42 

43 

44 

45 

46 

47 

48 

49 

50 

51 

52 

53 

54 

55 

56 

57 

58 

59 

60 

61 

62 

63 

64 

65 

66 

67 

68 

69 

70 

71 

72 

73 

74 

75 

76 

77 

78 

6243000 

6250000 

6300000 

6310000 

6311000 

6312000 

6313000 

6314000 

6316000 

6317000 

6320000 

6321000 

6322000 

6323000 

6327000 

6332000 

6340000 

6350000 

6351000 

6400000 

6410000 

6420000 

6430000 

6500000 

6510000 

6520000 

6530000 

6540000 

6600000 

6610000 

6610001 

6620000 

6630000 

6640000 

6650000 

6651000 

6652000 

18 

2 

49 

46 

2 

35 

3 

2 

2 

12 

16 

2 

2 

1 

4 

2 

1 

3 

2 

26 

2 

1 

5 

10 

7 

3 

4 

3 

69 

20 

2 

19 

63 

3 

183 

223 

6 

0.63 

0.07 

1.72 

1.61 

0.07 

1.23 

0.11 

0.07 

0.07 

0.42 

0.56 

0.07 

0.07 

0.04 

0.14 

0.07 

0.04 

0.11 

0.07 

0.91 

0.07 

0.04 

0.18 

0.35 

0.25 

0.11 

0.14 

0.11 

2.42 

0.70 

0.07 

0.67 

2.21 

0.11 

6.42 

7.82 

0.21 

CARBURETOR FOUR BARREL OTHER PART 

CARBURETION OTHER PART 

FUEL INJECTION SYSTEM 

FUEL INJECTION UNKNOWN TYPE 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE INJECTION MANIF 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE LINE HOSE 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE ACCUMULATOR 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE DISTRIBUTOR 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE VALVE START 

FUEL INJECTION UNK TYPE INJECTOR 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRICAL 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC INJECTION MANIF 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC LINE HOSE 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC ACCUMULATOR 

FUEL INJECTION ELECTRIC INJECTOR 

FUEL INJECTION MECHANICAL LINE HOSE 

FUEL INJECTION CONTINUOUS 

FUEL INJECTION OTHER PARTS 

FUEL INJECTION IDLE SPEED CONTROL UNIT 

THROTTLE LINKAGES AND CONTROL 

THROTTLE LINKAGES AND CONTROL PEDAL 

THROTTLE LINKAGES ACCELERATOR RIGID 

THROTTLE LINKAGES ACCELERATOR FLEXIBLE 

EXHAUST CRANKCASE EMISSION CONTROL DEVI 

EXHST CRNKCSE EMISSION CNTRL PUMP AIR 

EXHST CRNKCSE EMISSION CNTRL HOSES LINE 

EXHST CRNKCSE EMISSION CNTRL CHECK VALV 

EGR VALVE 

EXHAUST SYSTEM 

EXHAUST SYSTEM MANIFOLD ENGINE 

EXHAUST SYSTEM MANIFOLD OXYGEN SENSO 

EXHAUST SYSTEM PIPE EXHAUST 

EXHAUST SYSTEM MUFFLER RESONATOR 

EXHAUST SYSTEM TAIL PIPE 

CATALYTIC CONVERTER SYSTEM 

CONVERTER 

SENSOR CONTROL UNIT 

All 2850 100.00 All