GM Recalls 124k Vehicles Due to Bad Seat Weld
18 Aug 2014, 13:38 UTC · By: Jeffrey Ross / General Motors has announced a recall due to a faulty seat weld that could separate in the event of a crash. This latest recall affects all of four GM brands as well as a total of 124,007 vehicles, ...
Chrysler Establishes Vehicle Safety Office, Elects New Head of Product Development
12 Aug 2014, 17:14 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / With the ever inflating trend toward better vehicle safety, the Chrysler Group informs about a few changes meant to make their nameplates more safe to drive than before. These changes are the establ...
GM Ignition Compensation Fund Received 135 Applications, 65 Death Claims
12 Aug 2014, 11:22 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The notorious ignition switch fiasco that started at the beginning of the year forced General Motors to come up with a special victim fund for those that suffered injuries or lost their lives in cra...
2015 Chrysler 200 Called In Over Faulty Wiring Harnesses
11 Aug 2014, 08:04 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / The all-new Chrysler 200 mid-size sedan might go through 3,500 quality controls at the Sterling Heights Assembly Plant, but some of the vehicles produced up to this moment aren't without manufa...
GM Announces 5 Recalls Covering 269,000 Vehicles
10 Aug 2014, 14:56 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's been awhile since General Motors has called in some cars, ain't it? Well not anymore. The carmaker informed recently that 269,000 older and newer nameplates are involved in separate c...
Hyundai to Pay $17.35 Million Over Delayed Reporting of Hyundai Genesis Brake Fault
8 Aug 2014, 15:02 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After a rigorous investigation conduced by the NHTSA, Hyundai has been fined $17.35 million, the maximum penalty for a related series of violations until October 1st, 2013, when the fine was increas...
140k Owners of Recalled GM Vehicles Can't Be Contacted by the Automaker
8 Aug 2014, 12:32 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / As if the 30 million sub-standard vehicles weren't enough of a handful for General Motors, the company has recently told the NHTSA a very worrying thing: close to 140,000 owners of cars called ...
Mitsubishi Outlander Recalled Over Power Steering Problem
6 Aug 2014, 14:39 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Contrary to popular belief, cars engineered and manufactured in Japan aren't not as reliable as ignorants believe them to be. Try to remember the notorious Toyota sudden unintended acceleration...
GM Recall Center Website Found to Give Misleading Search Results
4 Aug 2014, 15:56 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / This just in from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration: the GM Recall Center is not working properly. One might be lead to think that there may be an unindented fault in the system, bu...
Senator Proposes Life Sentence for Execs that Delay Auto Recalls Resulting in Deaths
4 Aug 2014, 14:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Claire McCaskill. Automotive bigwigs should tremble with fear when they hear this Senator's name 'cause she's the lady that recently introduced the Motor Vehicle and Highway Safety En...
New Bus Rollover Standard Proposed by the U.S. Department of Transportation
4 Aug 2014, 11:33 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / In an attempt to harmonize European bus safety standards with the ones applied in the United States, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is currently cooking up new rules that will im...
GM Targeted Yet Again By Collective Lawsuit
1 Aug 2014, 11:47 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After 60 recalls and almost 30 million faulty vehicles, General Motors finds itself at the firing end of a barrel of a gun, with numerous victims intending lawsuits for accidents linked to sub-stan...
Suzuki Verona Called In Due to Overheating DRL Module
31 Jul 2014, 09:23 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Suzuki informed that some of its Verona sedans are prone to catch fire. Also known as the Chevrolet Evanda in Eastern Europe and Daewoo Evanda / Magnus in other markets, the mid-size Suzuki sedans i...
Fiat Recalls 500L Over Knee Airbags Deployment Issues
31 Jul 2014, 08:35 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Everybody loves the Fiat 500 city car, but its L, L Trekking and L Living mini MPV derivates haven't really cut the mustard since they were introduced. We're not necessarily referring to t...
Hyundai Sonata Recalled Over Fragile Shift Cable
30 Jul 2014, 17:20 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Oh my! Just two days ago the NHTSA announced that the 2015 Hyundai Sonata needs more sturdy front brake calipers, the second recall after the sedan was previously called back over a faulty wiring ha...
GM Pool of Potential Victims Expands with 505 New Death and Injury Claims
24 Jul 2014, 08:50 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / After GM announced yesterday its 60th safety recall so far this year, more dirt has been uncovered about the manufacturer's lousy practices - through the National Highway Traffic Safety Adminis...
General Motors Recall Saga Continues With 6 New Campaigns
23 Jul 2014, 18:50 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / We're in the 30th week of the year and General Motors' recall tally approaches the 30 million mark. As if that wasn't enough of a handful, the manufacturer recently announced that it&...
Jeep Commander, Grand Cherokee Recalled Over Ignition Switch Fault
23 Jul 2014, 09:05 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / It's not like only GM has hit it low with those millions of vehicles called back over very diverse safety or non-compliance defects. Now Chrysler is recalling almost 800k SUVs over the same pro...
1.3 Million GM Vehicles Recalled Over Electric Power Steering Issues
21 Jul 2014, 15:02 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / While the entire automotive industry has recalled almost 28 million automobiles last year, General Motors is getting perilously close to the 30 million mark. If you take into consideration this lous...
Cadillac CTS, SRX Stop-Sale Order Is a Little Late
21 Jul 2014, 08:21 UTC · By: Mircea Panait / Although Caddy should be focusing its efforts with the launch of the 2015 model year CTS and fine-tuning the 2016 CTS-V, something big came up and it's not pretty at all. A call back operation ...