The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has ordered Audi, Porsche and Volkswagen to recall and repair 15,000 vehicles featuring 3.0-liter diesel engines sold in the state since 2009. According to the watchdog, the vehicles contain an ...
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After California and South Korea, Volkswagen has been asked recall 323,700 diesel cars in India which exceeded local pollution limits. The company will have to recall cars belonging to its own brand along with Skoda and Audi brands across ...
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South Korea has ordered Volkswagen to recall 125,522 diesel vehicles after finding that emission test in the vehicles are manipulated. Regulators in South Korea have also imposed a $12.3m fine on the German automaker for emissions ...
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US based automotive retailer, AutoNation will not sell, lease or wholesale any new or used vehicle that falls under open safety recall. AutoNation is one of the largest automotive retailers in the US with 293 vehicle franchises across the ...
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Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) is providing $100 prepaid debit cards to recalled vehicle owners in the US to help them get their cars and trucks with potential safety issues repaired. The incentives have been said to raise the completion ...
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) in the US has sought details from automaker Volkswagen and Japanese airbag manufacturer Takata about the explosion of a side airbag in a 2015 Volkswagen Tiguan. Volkswagen was not ...
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Hondo Motor has attributed the death of a woman reported in September last year in Los Angeles to the violent deployment of Takata-made airbag, raising the toll to eight. The safety regulators in the US told Reuters that the death of one ...
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Japan-based Daicel is planning to build a second US factory for air bag inflators in early 2016. Reuters cited Daicel spokesman as saying that the company initially planned to construct the second US factory in March 2017, after its ...
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Japanese carmaker Mazda is recalling more than 100,000 Mazda 6 sedans from the 2014-15 model years due to issues with the tire pressure monitoring system. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the ...
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Toyota has announced that it will recall further 247,000 vehicles over the safety issues related to Takata air bags. The vehicles include Toyota Corolla, Matrix, Sequoia, Tundra and Lexus SC vehicles that were manufactured between 2001 ...
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The United States Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced it has unveiled a new, free, online search tool consumers can use to find out if a vehicle is directly impacted by a ...
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General Motors (GM) has recalled about 3.16 million vehicles in the US to rework or replace the ignition keys that are reported to move out of the run position inadvertently. The recall affects cars 3,360,555 vehicles with model year ...
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Japanese automaker Nissan Motor has recalled 276 units of its Leaf electric vehicle in North America due to certain missing spot welds in the cars. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), some 2014 Nissan ...
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General Motors has recalled 8,208 units of the Chevrolet Malibu and Buick LaCrosse sedans in North America over an issue with the front brake assembly. All the recalled vehicles belong to the 2014 model year and may have reduced braking ...
Faulty software in Toyota's popular Prius hybrids has forced the Japanese automaker to recall 1.9 million of such vehicles worldwide. The huge recall—representing more than half of all Prius cars ever sold—shows how Toyota has ...
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