Ford Motor Co. has again extended the temporary closure of its Louisville Assembly Plant for another week as it battles a software issue on the refreshed Escape and Lincoln Corsair crossovers.
The plant’s building chairman, Brandon Reisinger, informed employees Thursday the downtime will now last until March 6, which Ford confirmed to Automotive News.
Next week will mark the fourth-consecutive week the plant has been down.
Reisinger, however, noted the company appears to have solved the problem.
“We do have a new re-flash to address the programming issue we have with the clusters,” he told employees. “This re-flash does appear to be good. In all of the testing, they’ve had no issues so far. I think they finally have their issue resolved.”
Reisinger had previously said the problem involved software in the cluster that would have required a trip to the dealership.
The plant is currently in the pre-production phase of the freshened Escape and Corsair launch.
