Audi recalls 1.2 million
vehicles for coolant pump fire risk.
CBS News (4/25, 5.73M) reports that Audi is
recalling about 1.2 million cars and SUVs worldwide because the “electric
coolant pumps can overheat and possibly cause a fire.” The recall covers the
2013 to 2016 A4, the 2013 to 2017 A5, the 2012 to 2015 A6, and the Q5 SUV from
2013 to 2017. In January 2017, Audi attempted to fix the problem with software
updates but didn’t solve the problem.
Tens of thousands of
Americans still driving cars with defective Takata airbags.
The Washington (DC) Post (4/22, Halsey, 15.03M)
reports Honda said there are still 60,000 vehicles equipped with the most
dangerous Takata airbags that can rupture and potentially kill the driver or
passenger. Honda says that 62,307 vehicles are still equipped with the “Alphas”
that have about a 50 percent chance of rupturing if deployed, even in a
relatively small collision. Rick Schostek, executive vice president of Honda
North America, says Honda is “good at repairing vehicles,” but identifying the
current owners and convincing them to bring their vehicles in for repairs “has
proved a difficult challenge.” National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
Acting Administrator Heidi King told the Senate Commerce Committee last month
that while automakers have “made progress” in replacing defective Takata
airbags, the “progress is uneven” and “Overall completion rates are not where
we want them to be.”
Carfax study estimates
there are more than 57 million vehicles on US roads with unfixed recalls.
MLive (MI) (4/11, Raven, 834K) reports that a
new Carfax report estimates that there are more than 57 million “recalled
vehicles” on the roads in the United States, down from 63 million active
vehicles in 2017. California, Texas, Florida, Pennsylvania, and New York are
the states with the most open vehicle recalls. Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana,
New Mexico, Alabama, and Arizona have the highest percentage of open vehicle
recalls.
