Sentences with phrase «of vehicle recalls»

Since the issue of vehicle recalls remains one of the most prominent and life - threatening issues in society, it's a topic we focus on with great intensity.

About 1 percent of all vehicles recalled are believed to have the condition.

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One said her driver «pulled out his penis and masturbated during the ride,» while another recalled waking up in the back seat of the vehicle as the driver was «engaging in oral sex on me without my consent.»

Feinberg, who most recently advised on compensation issues related to the Boston Marathon bombing, was hired by GM as a consultant to advise the automaker how to respond to families of accident victims whose vehicles are being recalled for possible ignition switch defects.

Congressional testimony and investigations by the company and regulators revealed that GM engineers knew of the faulty switch for at least a decade, but a series of errors led to affected vehicles being recalled only in 2014.

The company said Wednesday it is adding 26,000 more vehicles to the recall across the United States in Canada, bringing the total number of vehicles affected in North America to 99,893.

The voluntary recall is specific to Model S cars that were built before April 2016, but the problem has so far affected only 0.02 % of the Model S vehicles in the US that fall under the recall's guidelines, according to the automaker.

It's worth noting that because Tesla has on balance built a relatively small number of vehicles — it just crossed a 100,000 annual threshold last year — and because it sells just three cars, its recalls are going to have a disproportionate effect.

Tesla has issued a worldwide recall related to the power - steering systems in 123,000 of its electric Model S vehicles.

Tesla announced on Thursday that it was voluntarily recalling 123,000 of its Model S vehicles because corrosion under limited circumstances in cold weather could cause the power - steering assembly to fail.

China's quality watchdog said on Monday that Tesla will recall a total of 8,898 Model S vehicles in the country from June 28.

WASHINGTON, March 20 - A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday will ask automakers and regulators why tens of millions of vehicles with faulty Takata air bag inflators remain on the road years after deaths prompted the largest auto safety recall in history.

WASHINGTON, March 20 (Reuters)- A U.S. Senate panel on Tuesday will ask automakers and regulators why tens of millions of vehicles with faulty Takata air bag inflators remain on the road years after deaths prompted the largest auto safety recall in history.

BEIJING, April 9 - China's quality watchdog said on Monday that Tesla Inc will recall a total of 8,898 Model S vehicles in the country starting on June 28, as part of a broader, global recall announced last month.

In January 2017, Audi recalled the same group of vehicles in the United States to update the software...

In Germany, new chief executive Matthias Mueller said he hopes the European recall of affected vehicles can begin in the new year and be completed by 2016, once VW's plan is approved by the German government.

Last year's Jeep hack — which caused the automaker to recall more than a million vehicles — is at the center of several panels.

Volkswagen Canada is recalling 5,356 Tiguan utility vehicles from the 2018 model year because of incorrectly welded rear shock absorbers.Wednesday, May 2, 2:28 pm ET

On top of that, some 3.5 million vehicles are currently the targets of regional recalls in certain high - humidity areas in the United States, or what many automakers call «field action», after U.S. safety regulators started investigating reports of inflator explosions in Florida and Puerto Rico.

That's the question at the heart of a debate over whether consumers deserve access to free loaner vehicles when their own vehicles are under recall for a safety defec

Only last month, Honda issued yet another recall of its own — its ninth for the defect — bringing to six million the total of recalled Honda and Acura vehicles.

TOKYO, Aug 28 (Reuters)- Honda Motor Co is recalling about 63,200 vehicles due to a defect in driver - side air bags made by Takata Corp, the latest in a series of air bag recalls across the industry that have affected nearly 16 million vehicles to date.

The delays by both Honda and Takata in alerting the public about the defect — and later in Takata's acknowledging it extended beyond a small group of Honda vehicles — meant other automakers like BMW, Toyota and Nissan were not aware of possible defects in their own vehicles for years, putting off their recalls.

The foot - dragging with Takata has had repercussions for other automakers, who have recalled about eight million vehicles worldwide because of the rupture risks.

One might recall that the California - based electric car maker reported an unremarkable 260 Model 3 vehicles produced and 220 delivered in the third quarter, citing «manufacturing bottlenecks» as the reason for missing its original guidance of 1,500 Model units produced by the end of September.

Ford has announced the recall of 1.38 million vehicles because their steering wheels can become loose or even detach while...

Shares of Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) sold off sharply on Friday after the company recalled 90,000 Model S vehicles.

The Detroit News is reporting that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV (NYSE: FCAU) plans on offering owners of recalled vehicles a cash incentive.

In addition to a voluntary recall of 123,000 Model S vehicles that owes to a problem with the power - steer component of some of the cars, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last week launched an investigation into the role of Tesla's Autopilot in a fatal crash.

DETROIT (AP)-- General Motors recalled more than 4 million vehicles, most of them in the U.S., to fix an air bag software defect that has been linked to one death.

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It would be recalled that on the 27th of January, 2017 at about 1000 hrs, 58 pre-trial detainees who were taken to Owerri High Court in 2 Black Maria Court Duty Vehicles were attacked as the inmates disembarked from the vehicles within the premises of the court.

Also Wednesday, the council greenlighted legislation requiring used car dealers to disclose details about a vehicle's recall history, regulating commercial bicyclists, studying the feasibility of allowing pedestrians to cross in any direction while vehicle traffic is stopped, and extending a prior legal limit on the conversion of hotels into non-hotel use — a bill backed by the city's hotel worker labor union.

LONDON, U.K. - Announcing the expansion of recall of its vehicles that have a battery connector issue, BMW has now said that is increasing the vehicle recall in Britain by 88,000 cars to a total of...

The Chief of Army Staff recalled with delight that the Nigerian Army being patriotic and in a bid to encourage local entrepreneurs asked Innoson Motors to supply 3 vehicles early last year which were found to be durable and performing very well as they were employed in combat and proved to be useful, comfortable and convenient in military operations.

«I am simultaneously writing to both of you through your representatives since each of you have expressed your deep concern for matters of auto safety in the US and have similarly expressed your support for legislation to strengthen the FTC's role in protecting purchasers of used cars from the dangers of acquiring vehicles that have defects that are subject to a safety recall, and, in many cases (the purchasers), have not even been made aware of these defects.

He said Nigerians would recall that in the heat of 2015 elections, many citizens, who claimed to have become tired of the PDP and its government, opted for a coalition of strange bedfellows who he said had little or no experience in governance as a vehicle for electoral victory.

It will be recalled that, on the 24th April, 2018, at about 12 noon, Sen. Dino Melaye while in lawful custody of the Nigeria Police Force and being taken for arraignment for Conspiracy and Unlawful Possession of Prohibited Firearms in Court in Lokoja, from Abuja, escaped from lawful custody when hoodlums and miscreants in Two (2) Toyota Hilux Vehicles blocked the Police vehicle conveying Senator Dino Melaye around Area 1 Round About, Abuja.

Starting out as a volunteer in a lab at Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla — «I was the broom guy,» Goldin recalls — he became involved in a project to design a wave - powered research vehicle.

If the automaker recalls every affected vehicle by the end of 2016, more than 130 additional early deaths may be avoided.

A lot of them, one will probably recall, were sold as the vehicle for one of the handful of action stars of the era.

Aided by car - stunt expert Bruce Law, Tong is back in his wheelhouse, executing a four - minute sequence in which colorful vehicles spin, flip in mid-air, and smash into each other with the wild abandon that recalls the spirit of older Hong Kong action pics.

For all of his attempts at ego deflation, it's interesting that two of the three more conventional Schwarzenegger vehicles, Terminator 2 and Total Recall, rank among his very best films to date.

General Motors is also conducting an extremely small recall of only five affected cars, including the 2013 - 2014 Cadillac XTS and the 2014 Chevrolet Impala because the vehicles may have left the factory with the sensing and diagnostic module set to manufacturing mode.

The Problem: General Motors today expanded an earlier recall of 619,122 U.S. - market cars to cover a total of 1.37 million vehicles.

This recall remedy was applied during earlier recall campaigns of these vehicles under safety recalls 12V527 and 13V040.

ID # 194923 Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Volkswagen) is calling certain 2009 Audi A4 Cabriolet, S4 Cabriolet, A6 Avant, A6 Sedan and S6 Sedan vehicles originally sold, or ever registered, in Arizona, Arkansas, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, or «Zone B.» Additionally, unless included in «Zone B» above, Volkswagen is recalling certain 2005 - 2008 Audi A4 Avant, A4 Sedan, A6 Sedan, S4 Avant and S4 Sedan vehicles, 2007 - 2008 A4 Cabriolet, RS4 Sedan, S4 Cabriolet and S6 Sedan vehicles, and 2006 - 2008 A6 Avant and 2008 RS4 Cabriolet vehicles originally sold, or ever registered, in Alaska, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

More recently, NHTSA created the «Safe Cars Save Lives» campaign to educate consumers on the importance of quickly addressing vehicle recalls.

Recalls are being issued for a number of vehicles including the new Toyota Prius V, 2012 Toyota Tacoma, and Cam - Am Spyder as well as various BMWs and Rolls - Royce models using V - 8 and V - 12 engines.

Any switches already installed in vehicles will be replaced by GM dealers as part of NHTSA recall 14V - 047, free of charge.