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Almost 60.000 Toyota Avalon and Camry sedans from the 2016 model were recalled by Toyota Motor Sales, USA. Almost all of them were sold in the U.S., only about 1,500 were sold in Canada and Mexico. Toyota Corp. says that these cars have a system that activates or deactivates the front passenger air bags depending on the weight of the passenger. In some of the affected vehicles the system was improperly calibrated, so the front passenger air bags and knee air bags may not deploy.The company affirmed that it's still unclear how many times the condition has occurred or whether it has bee...
All the main automotive dealerships agree on the fact that there is a serious shortage of automotive technicians able to work on today's advanced cars and trucks. In this situation analysts and experts say that simply recruiting more technicians won't help. The emerging gap between the lost and the recruited technicians is considerable. Ford and GM estimate a need for a total of 15,000 new technicians for their U.S. dealerships over the next five years. The North American shortfall is estimated by Mark Davis, automotive programs manager at Seminole State C...
Toyota has issued two recall campaigns, one for the 2016 Sienna and a second affecting the latest Rav4, Lexus ES 350 and RX 350. Toyota has discovered a problem, Brake Actuator assembly unit is defective on these models made for the US market. Thus, it has announced a recall affecting 4,170 examples of the 2016 RAV4, just 90 units of the 2016 Lexus RX 350, and 12,400 units of the 2016 ES 350.To fix the problem, Toyota will check out all the affected vehicles, and if the part number corresponds to the batch of bad ones, they will replace it. All known owners of the affected Toyota vehicles will...
Fiat Chrsyler Automobiles (FCA) recently announced the recall of 14,700 model year 2015-2016 Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango SUVs because of the problems related to power steering and braking.In January 2016, a supplier had a machine failure that caused parts of be incorrectly manufactured. FCA opened an internal investigation after the supplier notified the automaker about a left front caliper that failed during a test. Additional tests showed the caliper housing falls below specification on torque fatigue and pressure fatigue tests.A cracked caliper can cause the risk of a collision or...
Rumors of a dealer class action against Volkswagen have swirled for months, and we have already mentioned about this in one of our previous blogs. But now, a prominent dealer attorney, Leonard Bellavia of Mineola, N.Y., declared he is prepared to file a lawsuit against Volkswagen on behalf of U.S. dealers who supported financial damage after VW’s emissions scandal.The attorney declined to identify his clients, but he mentioned that whether the lawsuit is filed depends on whether the company can reach a settlement with dealers that compensates them fairly for the finan...
