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Revenues at car repairs and auto-parts stores are rising despite the slump in the U.S. auto sales this year. But why is there such a bid difference between these 3, when they are basically bounded to each other? Well, old vehicles are grinding out more miles, and need replacement parts and repairs almost each month. The vehicle fleet is still getting older every single year, in spite of our record sales, So you’ve got a significantly larger population of vehicles that require service and are coming in for service pretty regularly. Car dealers didn’t use to handle so...
At least 17 deaths and 180 injuries worldwide are now tied to the defect that prompted the largest ever auto safety recall and led Takata to file for bankruptcy protection last month. Honda Motor Co. on Monday confirmed an 11th U.S. death involving one of its vehicles tied to a faulty Takata Corp. airbag inflator. The Japanese automaker said the incident occurred in Florida in June 2016 when an individual was working on repairs on a 2001 Honda Accord and the airbag ruptured. Takata inflators can explode with excessive force, unleashing metal shrapnel inside cars and trucks.&nb...
New York’s attorney general has reached legal settlements with 104 dealerships it identified as having sold vehicles without disclosing open safety recalls. As part of the settlement, reached on Friday with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, those dealers must now notify customers two days before a sale of an unrepaired vehicle that no repair has been completed. Franchise dealerships are also required to provide loaner vehicles to customers if repairs to their recalled vehicles take more than one day to complete. The settlement comes following an investigation by the...
A suburban Phoenix Chevrolet dealership was fined $40,000 because federal regulators found out that it was selling recalled new vehicles without the proper repairs. After a two-year investigation, Sands Chevrolet of Surprise, Ariz., agreed to pay the civil penalty as part of a settlement with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.According to federal law it is forbidden to dealers to sell new vehicles subject to open recalls without fixing them first. The concerned dealership has changed its procedures to ensure that all vehicles are checked for open recal...
American Honda has announced an expansion of its previous recall of faulty Takata air bags that may be at risk. Another 127,000 bad Takata airbag inflators to its growing recall. This latest round affects 2003 and 2004 CR-V crossovers. This is the first time that the 2004 CR-V has been included in the airbag recall.The Honda Models included in the recall are:-2003-2007 Honda Accord-2001-2005 Honda Civic-2002-2004 Honda CR-V (all 2002 and certain 2003 CR-V previously included)-2003 Honda Element-2002-2003 Honda Odyssey-2003 Honda PilotRepairs will be conducted free of charge, and Honda not...
