Recalls of Motor Vehicles to rectify safety related issues.

Recalls are a very expensive exercise for Manufacturers.  Not only that, but it is also embarrassing and potential customers right fully question the quality of a car when it receives bad publicity, whether such publicity is warranted or not.  Manufacturers only recall vehicles for rectification work as a last result.  After all it would be much cheaper to fix only vehicles that actually fail, rather than having to rectify all vehicles whether a failure has occurred or not.  It would be a fair and reasonable to conclude that a Manufacturer that has safety related quality issues would also have quality related problems that are not safety related.

 Who has the most recalls, probably the manufacturer that sells the most vehicles?  Well, here is the answer according to the Department of Transport and Regional Services.  Since 1997 Holden has issued 51 recall notices, that is an average of 3.5 recalls for every 100,000 vehicles sold.  Fords has issued 37 recall notices, approximately 3 recalls/100,000 sales, Mitsubishi in the same time span issued 28 notices, almost 6 recalls/100,000 and Toyotas was the best of the local manufacturers issuing a mere 25 recall notices for just under 2 recalls/100,000 sales.

 How about the so called “Prestige” European Makes?  Peugeot issued 37 recall notices since 1997 and during that time sold 42,462 vehicles, that equates to just over 8 recalls per 100,000 vehicles sold!  That makes you think.  During the same time Land Rover issued 27 recall notices, almost six per every 100,000 sales.

For further information contact www.carsolutions.com.au or write to info@carsolutions.com.au