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After the tragic death of Anton Yelchin, all of Fiat Chrysler's skeletons got out of the closet. The investigation of the Jeep Grand Cherokee models has started and it brought up some new proof on the fact that Grand Cherokee had some serious defects. U.S. safety regulators said on Tuesday that 68 injuries and 266 crashes on the same model were reported. All of the affected models had a type of gear-shifting control that has confused some consumers and led to rollaway incidents. After that The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration indicated that there were no deat...
National Highway Safety Administration's website has revealed that a new auto brand is preparing for a recall. Can you guess which one? It looks like too many luxurious brands have tough times this year, considering even Maserati is preparing for a recall. The company is planning to test and make fix if necessary more than 13,000 2014 Quattroporte and Ghibli sedans. The problem that stays behind is a counter-intuitive gear shift lever, that may lead drivers to believing the car is in park while it's not so, that may lead to rolling the car away. The parent of Maser...
It's been 3 weeks now since we've wrote about the last car recall which belongs to Takata, and we were absolutely convinced that it will take a while until a new brand finds out about some vehicle defects, but it looks like we were wrong. The next automaker that is about to recall its vehicles is BMW, more than 180,000 X3 and X4 crossovers are being recalled in the U.S. in order to fix some faulty lower anchor bars used in securing child restraint seats. The 2011-17 models of X3 that were manufactured between July 2010 and April 2016 and the models of X4 manufactured between March...
Recent news about U.S. car recalls because of technical problems with Takata airbags have to be completed with new details from Toyota Motor Corp. that is recalling almost 1.6 million additional vehicles for front passenger side Takata airbag inflators that could rupture.Faulty Takata inflators have been linked to more than 100 injuries and 13 deaths worldwide. Toyota said the new recall includes some but not all Corolla, Matrix, Yaris, 4Runner, Sienna, Scion xB, Lexus ES, GX and IS vehicles built between 2006 and 2011. This report will be folowed by data from other 17 auto...
News about car recalls are not a rarity anymore. Among other announcements about vehicle recalls throughout the world, Fiat Chrysler reported it is recalling nearly 600,000 Jeep Wrangler SUVs and Fiat 500 subcompact cars worldwide. Wranglers are being recalled to inspect the clockspring, a part in the steering wheel that aids with airbag deployment. The automaker declared after an investigation that dust and dirt gathered from off-road driving can compromise the clockspring and eventually prevent driver-side airbag deployment in a crash. For the moment there are no rep...
