cross-posted from : https://lemmy.zip/post/72122441
The KBA road traffic authority was cited by the t-online news portal as saying that the recall was required due to potential bolt failures that could damage the steering gearbox or, in some cases, cause a complete loss of steering.
It’s good that we have quality controls for products as this happens quite often unfortunately. Just last week, Chinese EV makers BYD recalled more than 180,000 cars over brake pedal risks and Nio over defects in a steering system component.
These are 180k vehicles world wide (or the US? The article is not clear)
VW is recalling 1 million just in Germany.
Comparing just the numbers of recalled vehicles between individual brands is meaningless imo, it depends on how much they sold. If you sell more cars of a particular model, you might have more recalls. In addition, this is just a single recall.
I don’t say one carmaker is better or worse than the other. Such things happen often, though, everywhere.
Comparison is impossible, the years don’t match and we don’t know how much of the affected SKUs have been manufactured for each brand & model, and they’re kind of separate industries even if they share the same market
Things are going well in the German auto industry. Who could’ve predicted such a decline! /s
Don’t mistake a “simple” manufacturing error for the systemic denial of change in the industry in favor of short term profits
Cause and effect 🤷
