Don’t Let A Recall Derail Your Family Plans. Everyone is super busy with their daily lives in which our cars play a significant role. Schedules and plans must be coordinated daily to make sure everyone makes it to work, school and yoga classes on time. Nothing can derail your plans like a car that has…
Latest Recall News Affects Mazda, Mercedes Benz, BMW and Dodge
You can’t fix it if you don’t know about it. Vacation season is over and the new school season is in full effect. Along with the new school season comes the never-ending drop off and pick up lines. Is your car up to the challenge? You may have scheduled and taken your car in for…
Latest Recall News Affects Chrysler, Audi, Buick and Hyundai
Road trip season is here. Don’t park your plans due to an open recall! No one really wants to receive a recall notice in the mail. Don’t think of them as a necessary evil, but as a friend. It’s always better to know of a possible problem before hand than to learn of one during…
Latest Car Recalls: Volvo, Jaguar, Chrysler and Takata Airbag Update
Car Recalls Are A Good Thing: They Keep You Safe. If you receive a recall notice, see one in the news or listed here, don’t put off making the fix. Not only are car recalls intended to fix something that might be a danger, but recalls might only be enforced for a short period of time and…
Recall News: Mercedes Benz, Land Rover, Buick, Nissan
New Year, New Recalls: Don’t let a recall ruin your car, get it fixed! While we’re all enjoying the New Year and wishing we had more days off, we’re also thinking of our New Year’s resolutions. If one of your resolutions is to take better care of your car, don’t let an open recall sideline…
Recall News: Ford, GM, BMW, Mercedes Benz
Don’t let an open recall get by you. Get it fixed! The National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates that 1/3 of recalled vehicles are never repaired. Since most recalls are not an emergency situation, you can have the car fixed when it’s convenient for you. So why wouldn’t you? Probably because you don’t know about it….
Is Your Airbag a Killer?
The Takata airbag recall gets scandalous. More and more defective airbags are being recalled, but in a strange twist, new cars and being sold that knowingly have the compromised airbags installed. According to Autoblog, there are three main areas of renewed concern: Some new Audi, Mistubishi and Volkswagen cars contain the Takata airbags. And Toyota…
What The VW Emissions Recall Means For You
If you’re like me, you may not follow every big news story out there, especially when it comes to business. When Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner announced their split, I was all over it. But another car recall? I’ll check to see if my car is involved and if not, I’ll probably move along. But…
Mea Culpa: Fiat Recall in Hacking Plus Fines In Last Recall
Bad week to worse for Fiat Chrysler Automobiles. Last week, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles (FCA) was in the news when one of its cars was remotely hacked, in a controlled experiment, and the automaker said it was fixing the software problem. Then things really went south. First, FCA recalled 1.4 million vehicles whose vulnerabillty was exposed…
Expansion of Takata Airbag Recall: BMW Joins the Crowd
National recall of Takata airbags In June, automakers who used airbags made by the Japanese company Takata issued regional recalls of cars in high humidity areas, where defective airbags could explode and injure drivers and passengers. The limited recall has expanded as first Honda, then Mazda, Ford, FCA (previously known as Chrysler) and now BMW have issued…