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…
Taking Recalls To The Next Step: Fixing Your Recalled Airbag
NHTSA urges immediate action on recalled airbags Despite the record number of recalls this year, most cars are not recalled, and most car owners don’t pay all that much attention to recalls. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration wants that to change. Like people who ignore a doctor’s advice to get a flu shot, many…
Used Car Shopping: Avoiding Recalled Cars Just Got Easier
NYC Makes Used Car Shopping Safer Driving in New York City is known to freak out even experienced drivers, but used car shoppers now have a good reason to cross city limits: a law that recalled cars have to have their safety defect fixed before being offered for sale. It may surprise and alarm used…
Why You Want Your Daughter to Work For General Motors
Not Just a Company Led By A Woman, But A Company Led By Its Women Customers You know you’re going to see something really top secret when you can’t take your phone into a meeting with you. This makes me both really happy to be part of something exclusive, but also, frustrated because, you know,…
GM Faces A 1-2 Punch: Payout and Another Recall
GM Recalls Expanded While Payment Plan To Victims Is Announced General Motors can’t catch a break. On the same day it announced a payment plan of over $1 million for victims in cars with a faulty ignition switch, yet another 8.4 million cars were recalled. There is a broad range of compensation, but in crashes…
General Motors Receives Record Fine, Recalls More Cars
Growing Recalls are Just Part of General Motors’ Woes General Motors, which in the last 2 days has issued 5 recalls, received the maximum $35 million penalty, the largest ever for a carmaker, for its failure to report and recall the Chevy Cobalt ignition switch defect that led to 13 fatalities. The New York Times reported that…