New Recall - Honda Mazda Nissan Air Bags

[RyanbabZ71]

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/u-s-world/honda-mazda-nissan-recall-millions-of-vehicles-over-defective-possibly-explosive-airbags

 

I find it funny that I could not find anything on the major news outlets (foxnews or cnn) about this yet. However when GM has a recall it is plastered all over.

[SnakeEyeSS]

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/u-s-world/honda-mazda-nissan-recall-millions-of-vehicles-over-defective-possibly-explosive-airbags

 

I find it funny that I could not find anything on the major news outlets (foxnews or cnn) about this yet. However when GM has a recall it is plastered all over.

You know it has nothing to do with the brands, right? It was a supplier. They shipped out a crap load if bad airbags to a lot of companies. They paid that contractor to supply them with good airbags. Also, I believe Chrysler and Ford got some of the bad ones also. Apple to oranges. GM had it's own engineers saying the ignition was flawed. That was what started their issues.

[MikeNH]

Hardly. I know someone who was in purchasing/QC at GM years ago and he flew all over the country doing spot checks of suppliers in addition to addressing issues. This is just as much their fault for not doing ongoing QC checks.

[patriot]

Double standard.

 

The ignition switch is a COTS part, not GM-designed. The COTS designer should be taking the heat and the hit for the recall.

 

America bashing at its core.

[SnakeEyeSS]

Hardly. I know someone who was in purchasing/QC at GM years ago and he flew all over the country doing spot checks of suppliers in addition to addressing issues. This is just as much their fault for not doing ongoing QC checks.

 

You think GM would crash test cars regularly to test batches of parts?

[MikeNH]

No but they can test airbags in fixtures. And there should've been some way to tell the inflator chemicals had been compromised.

[SnakeEyeSS]

No but they can test airbags in fixtures. And there should've been some way to tell the inflator chemicals had been compromised.

Half dozen manufacturers across three continents. Every one of them that bought from that company may have been affected. Sounds like an industry wide issue to me.

[MikeNH]

Sounds like their QC people should be fired to me.

[Spurshot]

Hardly. I know someone who was in purchasing/QC at GM years ago and he flew all over the country doing spot checks of suppliers in addition to addressing issues. This is just as much their fault for not doing ongoing QC checks.

 

Exactly! I bought a GM vehicle. I don't care who stitched the seats together or made the radio or who made the air bags. I'm going to deal with GM on issues. I have no contract with Suzy stitch-right, or Bose, or Johnnie-Joe-Blow-the-airbag king. I have a contract with GM.

 

The contractor is responsible to dictate specifications, surveil, enforce, and "assure" the customer gets what the customer paid for.

[SnakeEyeSS]

Alright guys, you going to be fair and crap on GM for being late for what us basically the same, possibly worse(shrapnel!!!!) Recall?

 

I was defending the manufacturers the whole time. Still do.

 

http://m.autoblog.com/2014/06/27/gm-announces-four-new-recalls-507k-cars-official/?post=1&icid=autoblog_river_article

 

 

Did the other manufacturers mention shrapnel? I didn't see it if they did.

[MikeNH]

Yes, the shrapnel thing was mentioned in other recalls. But the media likes to shit on GM and make them look bad. GM wasn't late, they issued a stop sale a while ago. This is just the next step.

['01LS1]

Did Fords Eco stalling issues make the main stream news a few years back? If it did, I did not hear it. Stalling out of power in traffic seems potentially hazardous huh?

It made the auto forums, but that is it.

 

Point is, there is blood in the water with GM & the media are going to report everything potentially damning.

 

A friend of mine totaled out a 2009 ish Dodge Ram 3500. The steering wheel bent from either what he hit in front of him or when the semi following pushed his trailer forward(multiple car crash).

The air bag did NOT deploy & Dodge knew about it. He tracked down multiple Dodge trucks with failed air bags & the good people at Dodge knew it, but um, did not hear about that in the media either.