What causes this?

Well the Pinto was never a column shift, which is what that "recall" was about......but I get your point. LOL

I'm talking about Ford's OTHER recall. The one where they decided that the $14 (or whatever it was) cost to add a safety barrier between the rear and the gas tank was more than the cost of paying out the lawsuits for the number of their customers who were likely to be immolated after being rear-ended, so they saved their pennies.

– Eric