They more than doubled their customer support staff, closed new car production plants for three weeks to reduce the use of new tires and subsequently allocated those resources to help deliver tires to replacement centers, they developed a very large crisis-management team to speed the recall process, they purchased tire molds for Firestone competitors so that they could produce the replacement tires quicker, and they asked tire manufacturers to increase production of the replacement tires. ...

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The other was that Ford could have avoided this by simply placing an inexpensive light-weight plastic baffle that was placed between the front of the gas tank and the differential, so the four bolts that where in the differential would not break thought the gas tank. ... After being struck by a moving vehicle that was traveling at the speed of 50-55 miles per hour. ...

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