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Safercar.gov Overwhelmed By Recall For Deadly Airbags
darylb writes "The NHTSA's safercar.gov website appears to be suffering under the load of recent vehicle recalls, including the latest recall of some 4.7 million vehicles using airbags made by Takata. Searching recalls by VIN is non-responsive at present. Searching by year, make, and model hangs after selecting the year. What can sites serving an important public function do to ensure they stay running during periods of unexpected load?" More on the airbag recall from The New York Times and the Detroit Free Press.
Is a website buckling under load? Let's publish more articles about it and drive more traffic to their site!
Takata, remember when it used to be about the CRAFTMANSHIP, man? Back in the early days, you used to make airbags because you had a PASSION for it. Then the money came, and the drugs, and the women. Pretty soon, it's like you didn't even care anymore about the quality of the airbags. You were just living for the next party, the next line of coke, the next paycheck. The work suffered, man. And you chased off everyone in your life who really cared about airbag engineering and manufacturing. You just pushed them right aside, didn't you? And so now comes the crash.
It's time to rethink things.
SJW's don't eliminate discrimination. They just expropriate it for themselves.
Airbags are for your head, seat belts are for your torso. If you enjoy slamming your head into your steering wheel, go ahead and disable your airbag. Even more fun are videos of an asymmetric head-on collision that favors one side over the other. The test dummies slam their heads into the frame of the car unless you have properly working forward and side airbags.
I've received a few recall notices over the years for the cars I own. I followed the instructions on the form, made an appointment with the dealer, dropped the car off, then they did their thing. I never had to pay a dime.
You might be confusing a recall with a technical service bulletin. They are not the same, although a TSB can turn into a recall in certain cases -- and that happened in one case, for which I was refunded the money I'd paid for the service. All the recall notices I've received have had language on them to this effect, that if you repaired the car on your own dime (and can product a receipt) that they will reimburse you.
And if you buy a used car, it's probably worth the time to check for recalls. It's a similar situation for any consumer product you might pick up off Craigslist or from a private sale. We have a couple of kids and children's products are also notorious for this, since there's quite a "hand me down" / "cash sale" market that exists when your kids outgrow something and you don't need it any more.