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| The Opel Adam must be recalled |
The carmaker Opel has recommended an urgent safety review for 8000 vehicles in the series, Adam and Corsa and advised the owners to the car not to drive until then. Affected vehicles are the current generation, which were delivered in May 2014 Opel announced in Rüsselsheim on Friday evening.
Background is that the vehicles in question were manufactured with a portion of the steering system, "which did not meet the specifications". Further details not called an Opel spokesman on request. "To avoid any risk, these cars should be run again only after a review," the company said further with. To the Company claims to have no information on casualties or injuries that stood in connection therewith. For routine visits to production Opel became aware of the problem.
Affected customers will automatically be contacted by Opel. Owners of such vehicles could also inform from Saturday at the Opel site, whether their car is affected. In such a case, the dealer will come for a check to the customer or pick up the affected car, the Opel spokesman said. Opel's parent company General Motor Fight for months with one of the largest product recalls in automotive history.
On Friday now ordered Ford in North America masse cars in the garages. The recall concerns in North America 850,000 cars from the C-Max, Fusion, Escape and Lincoln MKZ from the model years 2013 and 2014, the company said. Because of possible defects in the control units is a risk of short circuits. Why could fail under others, the airbags and seat belts in a crash.
But Ford knew nothing yet of accident or injury. The end of May had already recalled more than a million cars because of possible problems with the steering, the company. It was only on Thursday and the third-largest U.S. carmaker Chrysler was ordered because of problems with defective ignition locks almost 350,000 cars in the garages. Those concern Jeep SUV and Dodge sedans of model year 2008 through the defect in the ignition key in the worst case can jump while driving in the "off" position, so that the engine stops and the brakes fail. Chrysler expects that this date led to an accident, but no injuries.
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