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  1. HAL 9000

    Why Hasn't GM Recalled These Two Trucks With A Similar Fiery Issue?

    Last week, under threat of a federal investigation, GM recalled almost every Hummer H3 it had built, because of a potentially dangerous design problem. Our analysis of a government database shows complaints of similar problems from owners of Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon, two trucks built...
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    GM Didn't Recall The Hummer Over Fires Until The Feds Threatened Them

    General Motors recalled nearly 200,000 Hummer H3s last week, over fears that they might catch fire. But it turns out that GM knew that flaming Hummers were a problem for several years before that. And what’s worse, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration exclusively told Jalopnik...
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    Toyota Recalls Certain 2012 - 2014 Prius v hybrid vehicles

    Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc. today announced that it is conducting a safety recall of approximately 109,000 Model Year 2012-2014 Prius v hybrid vehicles. In the involved vehicles, the current software settings for the motor/generator control ECU and hybrid control ECU could result in higher...
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    Feds: Fiat Chrysler Misled Safety Regulators, Failed At Recalls

    A public whipping is indeed what Fiat Chrysler is getting at a public hearing in Washington D.C. today, where officials from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration accused the automaker of violating safety laws and misleading them about recalls. The Detroit News’ David Shepardson...
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    Honda expands Takata recall by 1.39 million vehicles

    Honda Motor Co. said Monday it will expand by 1.39 million cars a nationwide recall of vehicles with potentially defective passenger Takata air bags. The Japanese automaker said the reason was because Takata has declared all of the passenger vehicles defective — even though Honda had told the...
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    Takata Can't Even Do A Recall Correctly

    While Takata has agreed to the largest consumer product recall ever of 34 million cars with their defective and potentially explosive airbags, millions of cars with Takata airbags have already had theirs replaced under previous recalls. Except hundreds of thousands of those airbags will now...
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    Feds To Shame Fiat-Chrysler In Rare Public Hearing Into Recalls

    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is none-to-pleased about Fiat Chrysler’s handling of some 20 recalls affecting over 10 million vehicles, and it’s holding a public hearing on July 2, to aid in the investigation of how the automaker has handled the recalls. In short, NHTSA is...
  9. HAL 9000

    Toyota, Nissan add 6.5 million cars to Takata airbag recall

    Takata’s airbags have been at the center of a massive recall push for the last several months. Basically, airbag inflators supplied by the Japanese company might shoot shrapnel when the airbags deploy, which could potentially injure or kill people in the car. Toyota and Nissan are...
  10. HAL 9000

    NHTSA Re-Recalling 2.12 Million Cars, Half Of Which Are In Other Recall

    The feds are recalling another 2.12 million vehicles in the never-ending airbag disaster after it was discovered that the fix originally offered wasn't good enough and airbags were blowing up in the absence of a crash. About half are in a different Takata recall and thus could send shrapnel...
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    Honda hit with $70 million fine for not reporting accident information

    The Obama administration said Thursday it is fining Honda $70 million — the largest civil penalty levied against an automaker — for not reporting to regulators some 1,729 complaints that its vehicles caused deaths and injuries, and for not reporting warranty claims. The Japanese automaker...
  12. HAL 9000

    10 carmakers meet on air bag testing

    Ten rival automakers that have recalled millions of vehicles for defective air bag inflators met for more than three hours in Romulus on Thursday. Increasingly frustrated with a lack of answers from air bag supplier Takata Corp. the automakers are banding together to find their own solutions...
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    Nissan recalling 470,000 cars over fuel leak problem

    Nissan is recalling about 470,000 cars and SUV's worldwide to fix a problem that can cause fuel leaks. In the U.S., the recall covers about 134,000 vehicles with direct fuel injection engines. That includes Nissan's Juke SUV from the 2012 through 2014 model years, and the Infiniti M56 and...
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    Honda to expand investigative air bag recall globally

    Honda Motor said it will expand an 'investigative' recall to replace potentially lethal Takata Corp air bag inflators across the globe, taking the total Takata-related recall tally of all brands to more than 19 million since 2008. Honda earlier added about 2.6 million cars in the United...
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    Ford EcoSport recalled in Australia over wiring defect

    Ford has recalled a total of 2804 EcoSports in Australia over a suspected wiring defect. The issue in question may cause the side airbags to not deploy correctly in the event of an accident. According to the official release published on the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission...
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    India-made Dusters recalled in UK. No action by Renault India.

    Right hand drive Dusters for UK, were made in India at the Renault-Nissan's plant in Chennai until recently, when the company shifted the production to Dacia's Pitesti plant in Romania where LHD Duster's are being produced. What started with only a few complaints, has now spread all over the...
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    Takata Rejects U.S. Demand for Nationwide Air-Bag Recall

    Takata Corp. (7312) rejected a U.S. regulator’s demand to expand regional air-bag recalls to the entire country, sticking to its piecemeal approach in dealing with a potentially deadly flaw in millions of cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is reviewing Takata’s response...
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    Honda SA responds to recall - yours one?

    Honda South Africa has responded to the global recall affecting millions of vehicles worldwide. Earlier in November 2014, Wheels24 reported that Honda had admitted on Monday (Nov 24) it had failed to report to US safety regulators more than 1700 injury and death claims involving its...
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    Japan may expand air bag recalls; worried about impact on industry

    Honda Motor and Mazda Motor may have to recall another 200,000 cars in Japan to replace Takata Corp air bags if Takata complies with a U.S. order to recall cars across the United States rather than just in humid regions. Several automakers in the U.S. have issued regional recalls of certain...
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    NHTSA Demands Nationwide Recall on Takata Airbags

    The Detroit News reports that NHTSA has formally demanded that Takata Corporation declare millions of U.S. vehicles defective. It’s the first step in requiring a nationwide recall of cars equipped with Takata driver’s-side airbags, after a long and ongoing issue where the auto supplier’s...
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    Volkswagen USA Is Recalling 442,000 Jettas And Beetles For Suspension Issue

    Volkswagen of America has issued a massive recall on 2011-2013 Jettas and 2011-2013 Beetles because a rear-trailing arm that may have been previously damaged could fail. This could result in a crash with fiery death. :wtf: According to the NHTSA - "...certain model year 2011-2013...
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