Posts tagged Automobile Defects

• Ford Recall to Fix Fire Hazard

  Christina Cole | March 07, 2007 10:19 AM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Ford recalling 155,000 pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.Ford Motor Company is recalling 155,000 sport utility vehicles and pickup trucks which includes the following models: 2003 F-150, F-250, F-350, F-450 and F-550 Super Duty truck, the Ford Excursion SUV and the Lincoln Blackwood pickup.The recall involves a defective cruise control switch that is potentially causing fires in older...

• NHTSA Holds Public Hearing On Five-Star Rating

  IB Contributor | March 07, 2007 12:49 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  What about competitive testing? Only the truly best get a 5-Star rating. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which has been rating cars and trucks on how they perform in crash tests for 30 years, is considering overhauling the tests just as the ratings will become more obvious to consumers, according to an article published Wednesday in USA Today. NHTSA gives vehicles one to...

• Ford Fatal Fire Case Settled

  IB Contributor | March 06, 2007 10:04 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Ford denies fault, settles anyway.An Iowa man whose wife died in a fire he said was caused by a Ford pickup truck, has settled a lawsuit with the auto manufacturer, according to an Associated Press news report posted on the Business Week Web site..The 78-year-old Earl Mohlis' wife, Darletta, died May 2, 2005, after a fire spread from their attached garage to their home.Mohlis and his three grown...

• Automotive Child Safety Regulations Proposed

  IB Contributor | March 01, 2007 11:23 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Bill addresses a continuing source of child deaths and injuries.Lawmakers and safety advocates in Washington called for new safety upgrades Tuesday that would require rear view cameras for drivers and power windows that automatically reverse as a way to protect young children around vehicles.According to an Associated Press news report posted on the Kansas City Star's Web site, Senator Hillary...

• Honda Recalling 45,335 Civic Hybrid Sedans

  Christina Cole | February 27, 2007 6:36 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Global Recall of Civic Hybrid Sedans45,335 Civic Hybrid Sedans world wide are being recalled by Honda Motor Co. to repair an electrical auto defect that can stop the car engine, reports Wall Street Journal online.Honda is planning a recall of 7,219 vehicles in Japan and 38,116 others that were sold overseas with many of them being sold in the U.S.In documents filed with the Ministry of Land,...

• GM recalls Saturn Outlook and GMC Acadia SUVs

  IB Contributor | February 24, 2007 10:46 PM | 1 CommentOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  General Motors Corp., the world's largest auto maker, announced Friday that it is recalling most of its new 2007 Saturn Outlook and GMC Acadia sport utility vehicles because the vehicles' front air bags may fail to deploy in a crash, according to a Bloomberg News report.The recall includes 13,032 of the SUVs built from August to this month, the automaker told the U.S. National Highway Traffic...

• NHTSA Announces Crash Test Results

  IB Contributor | February 15, 2007 10:11 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  In NHTSA test, everyone passes.The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has given five stars for front and side crash tests to 24 passenger vehicles for the 2007 model year. The complete results may be viewed at www.safecar.gov.Five stars is the highest rating available from the federal regulating agency. Recently, officials retooled some of the requirements for a five-star rating,...

• Auto Defect Secrecy Rules

  IB Contributor | February 12, 2007 11:20 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Consumer Auto Defect Complaints To Be Kept SecretThe American Association for Justice, formerly known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, is urging federal authorities to withdraw a newly proposed set of rules that endangers consumer safety by restricting their rights to learn about the safety of the automobiles they purchase.The National Highway Transportation Safety...

• Jury Rules in Ford Explorer Rollover Death

  IB Contributor | January 23, 2007 12:41 AM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An Indiana jury on Tuesday ruled that Ford Motor Co. wasn't responsible for the death of a youth pastor in the 2001 rollover of an Explorer sport utility vehicle, according to a Bloomberg Business News report and the Detroit News.Richard Bourke, 20, died in a horrific accident when he drifted off the road and lost control when attempting to steer back onto the highway, according to the report....

• Defective Hondas and Toyotas Recalled(2)

  IB Contributor | January 20, 2007 2:48 PM | 0 CommentsOrange County, CA Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Recall Ordered By NHTSAOn Wednesday, The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ordered the recall of 81,000 2004 and 2005 model year Honda Accords because of a potentially unsafe driver's side airbag seat positioning sensor. On Thursday, Toyota Motor Corp. said it was recalling 533,000 Tundra pickup trucks and Sequoia sport utility vehicles because of potential steering problems....