shepstone wrote:
Who pays for the recall if the defect is the fault of the supplier?
The vendor is back charged for the all of the cost of the recall. This includes any fines levied and suits brought by the consumer. This can quickly close even the largest vendor.
The vendor has to pay for all inspection costs for sorts if defective parts are found during manufacturing. The thing I find funny is if Ford has a recall our resident Blue Oval Kool-Aid King thinks it is no big deal. But let it be anything FCA and the world is coming to an end LMAO.
There are hundreds of thousands of parts and any one of them can fail. When a recall is needed be it voluntary or ordered the vendor that supplied that part will now need to supply the parts for assembly (if a currant model) service parts and now recall parts. This can be very hard to do if it is a hot seller.
Recalls are not a big deal and all manufactures have them. Back when warranties were 12/12 bumper to bumper the customer was on the hook. With the currant warranty coverage we now have recalls on parts that we never used to. Note, a safety recall can happen no matter the year of manufacture, ask GM and their brake line recalls.
The Takata Corp. airbag recalls are a perfect example of a supplier that can not provide the parts needed for all the recalls it has. Who gets the black eye? The car manufactures do and they also are getting hammered by the clowns at NHTSA yet they suspended the fines that were levied against them? But their problems are not of yet, there may be a $300 million in regulatory fines.
Don
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