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Showing posts with label Recalls. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 23, 2013

Honda Recalls Over 748,000 Pilot and Odyssey Because Airbag May Be Missing Rivets


Honda's American division is recalling certain model year 2009-2013 Pilot and 2011-2013 Odyssey passenger vehicles manufactured from March 13, 2008, through December 21, 2012, after it was discovered that one or more rivets that attach the airbag module to the airbag cover may be missing.

The Japanese carmaker informed the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) that the recall affects 748,481 vehicles sold in the United States.

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Monday, January 21, 2013

Car Dealers, Rental Companies want to be Exempt of New Bill About Recall Repairs


The U.S. Congress wants to introduce new legislation that will prohibit any rental-car company or car dealer to loan or sell any recalled vehicle before the necessary repairs have been made.

The new bill, knows as the Rachel and Jacqueline Houck Safe Rental Car Act, is named after two sisters from Santa Cruz, California, who were killed when the car they had rented caught fire and crashed into a tree. Said rental vehicle was affected by a recall but had not been repaired.

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Monday, April 9, 2012

Chrysler, Jeep and Dodge Models Recalled Over Two Separate Issues

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The Chrysler Group has issued two separate recalls for some of its 2012 models. The first one affects 1,689 Jeep Patriot and Compass crossovers built from December 17, 2011, through January 2, 2012, because of a potential problem with the fuel tank assembly's roll-over valve.

The company said that in these vehicles, the roll-over valve may be damaged and as a result, in the event of an impact or roll-over, gasoline can leak from the tank. The firm's dealers will replace the fuel-tank on all models free of charge with the recall expected to begin in June.

The second recall from the Auburn Hills carmaker involves 289 Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan minivans from the 2012 model year, manufactured from November 15, 2011, through November 21, 2011.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says some of these vehicles may be fitted with right rear hub and bearing assemblies that were not fully machined, something that could potentially lead to wheel separation.

Chrysler said that this safety recall will start in April.

Source: Carscoop
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Saturday, April 7, 2012

2012 Ford Focus Recalled Over Windshield Wiper Defect

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Ford Motor Company has announced a recall of 140,310 model-year 2012 Ford Focus vehicles built through Oct. 18 in the Wayne, Michigan Assembly plant over a potential windshield wiper defect.

According to Ford, a seal plug on the passenger side windshield wiper motor electrical connector may be missing, causing water to fall into the motor and a short in the unit.

Ford’s recall entails the installation of a redesigned seal plug and dealers will re-coat grease for electrical connectors to ensure wipers are protected and functioning.

Ford told dealers to begin the recall on Tuesday and notified affected owners on Friday.
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Saturday, March 24, 2012

NHTSA Wants to Increase Maximum Car Recall Fines, GOP Disagrees

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In 2010 alone, about 20 actor cartage were recalled in the U.S. That's not necessarily a bad thing: on the contrary, it shows that car manufacturers are consistently ecology their artefact for defects and accomplish abiding that they are rectified.

At atomic in approach because in reality, sometimes manufacturers abort to acquaint the National Artery Traffic Safety Administering (NHTSA) of defects in the five-day borderline allowable by U.S. law and try to abstain costly, and image-damaging, recalls.

Imposing a accomplished is one way to force carmakers to accede with regulations. The US$32 actor Toyota had to pay in 2010 in the belled abrupt dispatch cases is the best belled example.

Yet the NHTSA administrator, David Strickland, believes that the best accomplished of US$17 actor his bureau can appoint is not abundant to avert carmakers, according to a Chicago Tribune report.

“We feel it’s aerial time the penalties are cogitating of the admeasurement of the industry”, Strickland said during a House Energy and Business subcommittee hearing. He added that businesses with “deep pockets” could avoid the accepted legislation.

Republican Representatives, who run the House, argue Strickland’s angle as they anticipate it may abuse the convalescent automotive industry and accomplish award accepted area on artery legislation with the Senate added difficult.

“More mandates are not the answer”, said Republican Representative and carnality administrator of the commerce, accomplishment and barter subcommittee Marsha Blackburn. She additionally added that award abutment for accretion fines imposed on carmakers amid Republicans “would be actual difficult”.

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers, unsurprisingly, sided with the Republicans on this matter. The Alliance admiral and CEO Mitch Bainwol said that “there are affluence of incentives to do the appropriate thing” and accretion fines is not the solution.

While the U.S. administering wants to accession fines over delayed recalls and European nations can additionally accomplished companies over this issue, in Japan, accompaniment agencies aren’t accustomed to do the same.

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