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Safety Recalls Way Down In 2006 - Frost__2001 - 01-08-2007
Safety Recalls Way Down in 2006
The Daily Auto Insider
Monday, January 8, 2007
January 2007
Safety recalls declined dramatically last year, with substantial improvement by General Motors, Ford and Toyota, The Detroit News reported.
Through November, an estimated 9.2 million vehicles were recalled. By comparison, 17 million cars and trucks were recalled in 2005. The record for recalls was set in 2004, with 30.8 million, according to data compiled by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Ford, which led the industry with 6 million recalls in 2005, saw recalls drop to 1.7 million in 2006. GM showed similar results, recalling 1.6 million cars and trucks, down from 5 million the year before. Toyota improved in 2006, with 766,000 vehicles recalled.
Bucking the trend was DaimlerChrysler, which saw its recalls more than double to 2.4 million vehicles in 2006. The company had 28 separate recalls in 2006, up from nine in 2005. Chrysler's largest recall came in August, when it recalled 825,000 2002-06 Jeep Liberty models because of problems with ball joints, the story said. Among Asian carmakers, Nissan recalled more than 780,000 vehicles in 2006.
Not all the recalls are significant, the story noted. For example, Honda recalled 1.2 million vehicles because its owner manuals didn't have the right telephone number to alert the government of safety issues.
Safety Recalls Way Down In 2006 - NefCanuck - 01-09-2007
It's good to see all automakers making progress, however I think the good news should be tempered with the knowledge that not all issues for a particular model year are discovered within the calendar year.
More statistically significant IMO is whether or not auto manufacturers are still down on recalls for their past model years as time passes (IE: Are they still discovering issues for example with the '05 MY Focus nearly two years after the first ones were introduced?)
NefCanuck