Então em Inglaterra fizeram um estudo (nao encontrei em Portugal, autohoje poderia fazer 1 artigo igual please please).
Então quem são os culpados dos carros a arder etc?
Resposta: O Dono
Ah pois é:
Traduzindo resumido (uns posts abaixo meti traduzido do Google Translate)
1 milhão de carros que nao seguros a circular em Inglaterra porque os DONOS ignoram recalls.
Entre os recall está o perigo de incêndio.
Extrapolando, com a noticia da PSA que 76% de carros em Portugal deixa de ir às marcas após a garantia e as garantias em Portugal sao menores que em Inglaterra é facil ver que em Portugal tudo o que anda a arder é culpa do dono :D
Car recalls UK: a million unsafe cars on the road as owners ignore recalls
Faulty cars recalled by manufacturers are not being returned by owners, resulting in millions of dangerous models on the road
More than a million dangerous cars are still on UK roads after an exclusive Auto Express investigation revealed less than half of the top 10 vehicle recalls in the UK since 2012 have been completed.
Figures obtained by Auto Express from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) reveal 2.2 million models were affected by recalls involving faulty airbags, fire risks and steering failures, but just 47.7 per cent went back to dealers for repairs.
The top 10 list of recalls since 2012 is led by the Takata airbag scandal, which affected millions of models from BMW, Honda and Toyota. BMW’s recall rate for its driver airbag failure is just 1.5 per cent, while Toyota has reached only a quarter of cars. Both manufacturers told Auto Express they had sent numerous reminder letters, but it’s not always easy to track down owners of older vehicles. A Toyota spokesman added: “This is very much an ongoing recall due to the numbers of vehicles and manufacturers involved. Due to volumes we have to manage it to ensure sufficient parts supply.”
• The safest cars on sale
The high-profile Vauxhall Zafira fire recall also features in the top 10, but has a better 69.7 per cent recall rate. A Vauxhall spokesman told us it has actively sought out models on sale and has issued more than a million letters to remind owners. It’s also worked with the DVSA, in an industry first, to identify models and ensure work is carried out during the MoT test.
The best recall rate in the top 10 is 78.3 per cent, for risk of fire on the Honda Jazz –although the Japanese manufacturer has struggled more with Takata figures, reaching just 12.9 per cent of cars affected.
In the past five years, the DVSA has overseen 1,484 individual recall cases involving more than nine million vehicles. DVSA chief executive Gareth Llewellyn said: “DVSA’s first priority is to protect you from unsafe drivers and vehicles. We have made it clear to manufacturers that they should swiftly rectify problems and meet their obligations under the code of practice to protect consumers.
“DVSA will take the necessary action against any manufacturers who fail to comply with their obligations. We have recently carried out an audit of Vauxhall’s headquarters. We are reviewing the findings and will take further action if necessary.”
• Volkswagen emissions scandal
Car recalls: Auto Express opinion
The figures uncovered during this investigation are staggering, and highlight how much of a problem the industry has in getting drivers to have recalls done.
The Takata airbag recall was a huge scandal at the time, and cars that aren’t repaired are a massive danger – not just for the owner of the vehicle, but also those other drivers who could be following a car that has a failure.
Manufacturers can only do so much to remind people to have work done, and there’s a problem finding owners once a car has changed hands – especially on older models. Motorists must check that any model they own, or intend to buy, is recall-free on www.themotorombudsman.org/vehicle-recalls.
Vauxhall’s move to work with the DVSA and get repairs completed at MoT is certainly a step in the right direction, and we’d support a move to make this standard. A car should not be signed off as roadworthy if it has an outstanding recall logged.
Are car recalls a good thing?
According to the DVSA code of practice, a car only officially needs to be recalled if one of its features “is likely to affect [its] safe operation… without prior warning to the user and may pose a significant risk to the driver, occupants and others”. High-profile cases like the recent Takata airbag scandal and Toyota’s ‘unintended acceleration’ recall in 2010 both alarmed the public in terms of safety, while the more recent recall where Vauxhall Zafiras would catch fire spontaneously spawned a social media backlash.
Although ‘recall’ is a loaded term, makers say they’re preventable, and it’s misleading to suggest millions of cars are being driven around with potentially lethal faults. Still, the infamous Toyota recall, for example, was clearly a risk – the possibility of a ‘runaway’ car poses imminent danger.
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That issue contributes to Toyota’s number one spot overall in the recall charts between 2011 and 2016, with the company responsible for 1.27m vehicles returning to dealers. This is surprising given the brand’s reputation for build quality and reliability, which also applies to its Lexus premium arm, and its record in our annual Driver Power satisfaction surveys. Owners ranked the Toyota iQ as Britain’s most reliable car in last year’s poll, while five of the top 10 places in the overall Driver Power 2015 table were occupied by a Toyota or Lexus.
It’s a similar story for Honda, which called back nearly one million models and placed second in our recall chart, yet its Jazz ranked fifth for reliability in Driver Power 2015.
Should all of this worry a Toyota or Honda driver, or indeed an owner of any car in the recalls top five, which includes premium brand BMW in fourth place in 2015 and mainstream favourites Nissan in fifth and Vauxhall in third? Well, seemingly not, as a Toyota spokesman told us that a high number of recalls should, in fact, reassure drivers.
“A recall is a preventative measure to fix what may never be a fault,” he explained. “If a brand had no recalls, would it mean that all of its cars were perfect, or just that it’s not checking what may be causing faults?”
Toyota says that an investigation is triggered when just “a single digit number” of cases of a specific fault are presented to its dealer network. This often results in a recall of tens of thousands of cars for precautionary fixes.
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Honda agrees, telling us that “the fact that we, along with the rest of the automotive industry, can track all products and contact owners to ensure any recalls are carried out means that we can deliver on our promise of safety, comfort and happiness”.
The brand has recalled almost one million vehicles over the past five years, yet the DVSA itself backs up Honda’s sentiments, as it stated that manufacturers are approaching recalls proactively, rather than simply waiting for hundreds of cars to present potentially dangerous flaws on the road.
A company spokesman told us: “We have never had to issue a safety recall enforcement letter under the General Product Safety Regulations – all vehicle and component manufacturers have volunteered safety recalls on their own accord.”
The organisation does, however, take credit for its own investigation work in initiating safety recalls. “[Our] intelligence and early warning work has resulted in 66 of 2014’s 256 recalls being notified, registered or launched [and our] safety defect investigation work has resulted in nine safety recalls,” the spokesman added.
• Vauxhall Zafira car fires
How do I know if a recall notice has been issued on my car?
A manufacturer must notify the DVSA of a recall and proceed accordingly. That includes writing to every registered keeper of the vehicle and notifying them of the defect, spelling out the fix required, the consequences if the problem isn’t remedied and how the owner should proceed.
It will then usually be as simple as contacting your local franchised dealer and arranging a free repair (or replacement parts), which is imperative, because ignoring a safety recall could invalidate your insurance as well as put yourself and other motorists at risk.This is also why it’s vital to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency if you’ve bought or sold a vehicle second-hand.
You can also check for any recalls at www.themotorombudsman.org/vehicle-recalls.
Manufacturers topping recall charts 2011 to 2016
Então quem são os culpados dos carros a arder etc?
Resposta: O Dono
Ah pois é:Traduzindo resumido (uns posts abaixo meti traduzido do Google Translate)
1 milhão de carros que nao seguros a circular em Inglaterra porque os DONOS ignoram recalls.
Entre os recall está o perigo de incêndio.
Extrapolando, com a noticia da PSA que 76% de carros em Portugal deixa de ir às marcas após a garantia e as garantias em Portugal sao menores que em Inglaterra é facil ver que em Portugal tudo o que anda a arder é culpa do dono :D
Car recalls UK: a million unsafe cars on the road as owners ignore recalls
Faulty cars recalled by manufacturers are not being returned by owners, resulting in millions of dangerous models on the road
More than a million dangerous cars are still on UK roads after an exclusive Auto Express investigation revealed less than half of the top 10 vehicle recalls in the UK since 2012 have been completed.
Figures obtained by Auto Express from the Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) reveal 2.2 million models were affected by recalls involving faulty airbags, fire risks and steering failures, but just 47.7 per cent went back to dealers for repairs.
The top 10 list of recalls since 2012 is led by the Takata airbag scandal, which affected millions of models from BMW, Honda and Toyota. BMW’s recall rate for its driver airbag failure is just 1.5 per cent, while Toyota has reached only a quarter of cars. Both manufacturers told Auto Express they had sent numerous reminder letters, but it’s not always easy to track down owners of older vehicles. A Toyota spokesman added: “This is very much an ongoing recall due to the numbers of vehicles and manufacturers involved. Due to volumes we have to manage it to ensure sufficient parts supply.”
• The safest cars on sale
The high-profile Vauxhall Zafira fire recall also features in the top 10, but has a better 69.7 per cent recall rate. A Vauxhall spokesman told us it has actively sought out models on sale and has issued more than a million letters to remind owners. It’s also worked with the DVSA, in an industry first, to identify models and ensure work is carried out during the MoT test.
The best recall rate in the top 10 is 78.3 per cent, for risk of fire on the Honda Jazz –although the Japanese manufacturer has struggled more with Takata figures, reaching just 12.9 per cent of cars affected.
In the past five years, the DVSA has overseen 1,484 individual recall cases involving more than nine million vehicles. DVSA chief executive Gareth Llewellyn said: “DVSA’s first priority is to protect you from unsafe drivers and vehicles. We have made it clear to manufacturers that they should swiftly rectify problems and meet their obligations under the code of practice to protect consumers.
“DVSA will take the necessary action against any manufacturers who fail to comply with their obligations. We have recently carried out an audit of Vauxhall’s headquarters. We are reviewing the findings and will take further action if necessary.”
• Volkswagen emissions scandal
| Make | Model | Numbers | Concern | Date | % of recall complete |
| Toyota | Yaris , Corolla, Avensis Verso, Picnic, Lexus IS220, Lexus IS250, Lexus IS250 Convertible & Lexus ISF | 388,439 | Passenger side airbag may fail to deploy correctly. | 15/6/15 | 24 |
| BMW | 3 series | 291,170 | Passenger side airbag may fail to deploy correctly. | 26/7/13 | 44.5 |
| Honda | FR-V, Civic Hybrid, Jazz, Jazz Hybrid, Legend, CR-V | 252,174 | Drivers’ airbag inflator may rupture | 16/5/16 | 12.9 |
| Honda | Accord, Accord Tourer, Civic, CR-V, Insight, Jazz & Stream | 242,653 | Passenger side airbag may fail to deploy correctly. | 26/6/15 | 64 |
| Vauxhall | Zafira B - (MY 2005 to 2014 only, with manual control air conditioning or without air conditioning). | 234,921 | Risk of fire | 18/5/16 | 69.7 |
| BMW | 3 (Sedan, Touring, Coupe, Convertible and M3(, 5 (Sedan, Touring and M5) & X5 (with sport steering wheel) | 227,849 | Drivers’ airbag may fail to deploy correctly | 01/11/16 | 1.5 |
| Toyota | Yaris, RAV4 and Hilux | 203,260 | Drivers’ side airbag may rupture | 22/06/15 | 41 |
| Honda | Jazz | 171,385 | Risk of fire | 27/08/13 | 78.3 |
| Nissan | Micra | 133,869 | Steering wheel fixing bolt may not be tightened correctly | 23/05/13 | 69.6 |
| BMW | 5-Series, 5-Series Touring, M5 Saloon, M5 Touring, 6-Series Coupe, 6-Series Convertible, M6 Coupe, M6 Convertible & Alpina | 128,701 | Risk of fire | 24/05/12 | 71.2 |
Car recalls: Auto Express opinion
The figures uncovered during this investigation are staggering, and highlight how much of a problem the industry has in getting drivers to have recalls done.
The Takata airbag recall was a huge scandal at the time, and cars that aren’t repaired are a massive danger – not just for the owner of the vehicle, but also those other drivers who could be following a car that has a failure.
Manufacturers can only do so much to remind people to have work done, and there’s a problem finding owners once a car has changed hands – especially on older models. Motorists must check that any model they own, or intend to buy, is recall-free on www.themotorombudsman.org/vehicle-recalls.
Vauxhall’s move to work with the DVSA and get repairs completed at MoT is certainly a step in the right direction, and we’d support a move to make this standard. A car should not be signed off as roadworthy if it has an outstanding recall logged.
Are car recalls a good thing?
According to the DVSA code of practice, a car only officially needs to be recalled if one of its features “is likely to affect [its] safe operation… without prior warning to the user and may pose a significant risk to the driver, occupants and others”. High-profile cases like the recent Takata airbag scandal and Toyota’s ‘unintended acceleration’ recall in 2010 both alarmed the public in terms of safety, while the more recent recall where Vauxhall Zafiras would catch fire spontaneously spawned a social media backlash.
Although ‘recall’ is a loaded term, makers say they’re preventable, and it’s misleading to suggest millions of cars are being driven around with potentially lethal faults. Still, the infamous Toyota recall, for example, was clearly a risk – the possibility of a ‘runaway’ car poses imminent danger.
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That issue contributes to Toyota’s number one spot overall in the recall charts between 2011 and 2016, with the company responsible for 1.27m vehicles returning to dealers. This is surprising given the brand’s reputation for build quality and reliability, which also applies to its Lexus premium arm, and its record in our annual Driver Power satisfaction surveys. Owners ranked the Toyota iQ as Britain’s most reliable car in last year’s poll, while five of the top 10 places in the overall Driver Power 2015 table were occupied by a Toyota or Lexus.
It’s a similar story for Honda, which called back nearly one million models and placed second in our recall chart, yet its Jazz ranked fifth for reliability in Driver Power 2015.
Should all of this worry a Toyota or Honda driver, or indeed an owner of any car in the recalls top five, which includes premium brand BMW in fourth place in 2015 and mainstream favourites Nissan in fifth and Vauxhall in third? Well, seemingly not, as a Toyota spokesman told us that a high number of recalls should, in fact, reassure drivers.
“A recall is a preventative measure to fix what may never be a fault,” he explained. “If a brand had no recalls, would it mean that all of its cars were perfect, or just that it’s not checking what may be causing faults?”
Toyota says that an investigation is triggered when just “a single digit number” of cases of a specific fault are presented to its dealer network. This often results in a recall of tens of thousands of cars for precautionary fixes.
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Honda agrees, telling us that “the fact that we, along with the rest of the automotive industry, can track all products and contact owners to ensure any recalls are carried out means that we can deliver on our promise of safety, comfort and happiness”.
The brand has recalled almost one million vehicles over the past five years, yet the DVSA itself backs up Honda’s sentiments, as it stated that manufacturers are approaching recalls proactively, rather than simply waiting for hundreds of cars to present potentially dangerous flaws on the road.
A company spokesman told us: “We have never had to issue a safety recall enforcement letter under the General Product Safety Regulations – all vehicle and component manufacturers have volunteered safety recalls on their own accord.”
The organisation does, however, take credit for its own investigation work in initiating safety recalls. “[Our] intelligence and early warning work has resulted in 66 of 2014’s 256 recalls being notified, registered or launched [and our] safety defect investigation work has resulted in nine safety recalls,” the spokesman added.
• Vauxhall Zafira car fires
How do I know if a recall notice has been issued on my car?
A manufacturer must notify the DVSA of a recall and proceed accordingly. That includes writing to every registered keeper of the vehicle and notifying them of the defect, spelling out the fix required, the consequences if the problem isn’t remedied and how the owner should proceed.
It will then usually be as simple as contacting your local franchised dealer and arranging a free repair (or replacement parts), which is imperative, because ignoring a safety recall could invalidate your insurance as well as put yourself and other motorists at risk.This is also why it’s vital to notify the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency if you’ve bought or sold a vehicle second-hand.
You can also check for any recalls at www.themotorombudsman.org/vehicle-recalls.
Manufacturers topping recall charts 2011 to 2016
| 2011 | 2012 | |||
| Vauxhall | 435,580 | Toyota | 289,308 | |
| Honda | 163,653 | BMW | 194,230 | |
| Volvo | 138,171 | Honda | 118,573 | |
| 2013 | 2014 | |||
| BMW | 313,518 | Fiat | 95,052 | |
| Nissan | 252,707 | Toyota | 80,769 | |
| Honda | 233,801 | Ford | 75,451 | |
| 2015 | 2011-15 | |||
| Toyota | 739,870 | Toyota | 1,270,615 | |
| Honda | 461,634 | Honda | 994,578 | |
| Vauxhall | 115,001 | Vauxhall | 632,217 |
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