320Hockey t1_iu0wz05 wrote
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Calling Chevrolets 15 cent ignition spring that caused ignition interlock on the first gen Cobalts.
They saved 10 cent per spring from the factory…guess how much the recall costed the company, along with the PR nightmare is created.
COMPUTER1313 OP t1_iu2hwql wrote
Or Ford's Pinto moment.
Or when Takata decided it would be a REALLY GOOD IDEA to ship claymore airbags and defective seat belts to car manufacturers around the world, guaranteeing that when the scandal breaks, they would be sued both by consumers and the car manufacturers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takata_Corporation
> During 2013, several automakers began large recalls of vehicles due to Takata-made airbags. Reports state that the problems may have begun a decade before,[11] with the faulty airbags placed in some Honda models starting in 1998.[12]
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> On January 4, 2019, Ford issued a recall for an additional 953,000 vehicles, including 782,384 in the United States and federalized territories and 149,652 in Canada. Affected vehicles included 2010 Ford Edge and Lincoln MKX, the 2010 and 2011 Ford Ranger, the 2010 to 2012 Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ, the 2010 and 2011 Mercury Milan, and the 2010 to 2014 Ford Mustang. This was a planned expansion of previously recalled vehicles as identified earlier by the NHTSA.[42]
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> In June 2021, Joyson announced that they had discovered over a thousand cases where Takata had falsified seat belt safety test data.[43]
chuchofreeman t1_iu2rpm8 wrote
oh boy, we had thousands of warranty claims with this airbags
agentages t1_iu2u2nt wrote
Nothing a cash out and bankruptcy can't solve though right? Wonder how many execs are in prison for this...
Doublehappyness t1_iu3g09l wrote
Calling it 10 cent and didn’t want to spend .25 cents on a washer. Challenger explosion
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