Product Recall

It’s summertime in Texas and elsewhere, so that means use of off-road vehicles at ranches and farms.  That use will continue through the fall and winter during hunting seasons for deer and other game.  Off-road vehicles can be particularly dangerous.  Some have been defectively designed to roll over too easily or, when they do roll over, certain protective devices are …

Toyota and Honda have been the center of recent controversies surrounding faulty air bags, with hundreds of thousands of vehicles recalled.  Now, German auto manufacturer Volkswagen AG has joined the list of automakers engaging in an air bag related recall.  The company recently announced that it is recalling 420,000 vehicles in the United States and another 41,300 in Canada because …

Volkswagen recently announced a recall affecting about 3,000 VW Tiguan vehicles released in model year 2015.  The purpose of the recall is to correct the labeling on the SUVs’ tires, which the company says contain the wrong information about tire loading weight and pressure. The affected SUVs were built between January and March 2015, according to the company.  The recall …

Automaker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will be expected to pay a $105 million fine for recall lapses that affected millions of vehicles, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article.  The fine, to be imposed shortly by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), is the largest monetary penalty for recall lapses ever imposed.  The NHTSA will also assign an independent …

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) held a hearing on July 2 to scrutinize the recall and safety practices of Fiat Chrysler Automotive (FCA).  After the hearing, NHTSA chief Mark Rosekind said the agency would likely take action against the automaker no later than Labor Day 2015, according to a recent article in Automotive News.

Millions of Honda vehicles have defective air bag components manufactured by Takata – but their owners still have not brought them to a dealership to get the problems fixed. To remind owners of the need for a fix, Honda has begun an advertising campaign to raise awareness, according to a recent New York Times article. According to the New York …

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently announced a recall of over 2.1 million vehicles nationwide. The recall focuses on problems with the vehicles’ air bag systems. The recall includes the following vehicles and model years: 2002 through 2004 Jeep Cherokee and Grand Cherokee, 2002 and 2003 Jeep Liberty, 2003 and 2004 Dodge Viper, 2003 and 2004 Toyota Corolla, …