Analysis · Safety
NHTSA is paying states to flag open recalls at registration. Its own data says reminders fix a fraction of cars, and the lever that works is one Washington won't pull.
Analysis · Safety
GM's 67,380-EV brake recall repeats a 2024 fix that didn't hold. Over-the-air updates make recalls cheap, and I think that makes them too easy to call finished.
Analysis · Safety
Land Rover's 93,997-vehicle camera recall is minor. What isn't: half the vehicles JLR recalled in the U.S. this year came with a warning letter instead of a repair.
Analysis · Safety
The fix for 105,794 Land Cruisers is a clamp. The worrying part is that owners reported the failure in January and NHTSA's defect office shaped the recall.
Analysis · Safety
The first complaint about stuck F-Series speedometers reached Ford in January 2025. The recall came 20 months later, and the fix won't arrive before December.
Analysis · Safety
Capping a battery Volkswagen can't yet fix is defensible. Applying that cap remotely, by default, with days to refuse sets a precedent owners shouldn't accept.
Analysis · Safety
The two alleged U.S. fires in Hyundai's file date to 2021 and 2022. What finally forced this recall came from Korea, and owners still have no fix.
