06 escape tail lights
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06 escape tail lights
i just bought an 06 escape and 6 months later i looked at the tail lights and both of my tail lights are made by visteon is that an aftermarket tail light looks just like fords stock ones to me. i was wondering if anyones tail lights is made by visteon. i ran a car fax before i bought the car and there was no accidents reported.
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i just bought an 06 escape and 6 months later i looked at the tail lights and both of my tail lights are made by visteon is that an aftermarket tail light looks just like fords stock ones to me. i was wondering if anyones tail lights is made by visteon. i ran a car fax before i bought the car and there was no accidents reported.
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Visteon is one of Ford's largest suppliers. Like it was already pointed out, Ford spun off a number of their supplier plants into a separate company quite a few years ago and Visteon was one of them. In general, the automakers make the body, frame and drivetrains and everything else comes from suppliers.
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Visteon is one of Ford's largest suppliers. Like it was already pointed out, Ford spun off a number of their supplier plants into a separate company quite a few years ago and Visteon was one of them. In general, the automakers make the body, frame and drivetrains and everything else comes from suppliers.
I retired from Ford's Sterling Gear&Axle Plant which was Visteon for a while but went back to Ford. They are making less and less drivetrains. Rear wheel driven cars/trucks have Ford rearends. We assembled the F-150 4x4 frontends and machined both axles. The axles were farmed out last summer. The Mustang rearends where built there too but I didn't work in area, so I'm unsure about it's components. The F-350 rearend is still built there.
The 4x4 Ranger was a Dana frontend. I'm wondering what's used in the Escape rearend? The rearend used in the Saturn Vue was built at Sterling also but was moved to a nearby sister plant some years ago.
