{"id":1089,"date":"2014-04-23T09:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T09:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2014-04-23T09:56:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T09:56:17","slug":"what-is-a-car-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"What is a Car Recall?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Public Citizen<\/a><\/div>\n

Question by answers4evry1<\/i>: What is a Car Recall?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I called the dealer, and they asked me for the VIN number to “check” any recall. I gave it to this guy, and he said: There’s no recall.<\/p>\n

What does that exactly mean?<\/p>\n

Best answer:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Answer by Jeff<\/i>
A recall is when a car manufacturer finds out after a car has hit the market that a part is unsafe or unreliable (though further testing or reports from dealerships of a large number of failures). What they will do is develop a fix to the problem, replacing or repairing the part that is at fault. They will announce that fix and what years\/models of vehicles are affected to the dealerships and owners.<\/p>\n

When you bring your car in, they can look up the VIN to see if there are any recalls that need to be performed. Once they are performed, they mark your VIN down as being completed (so that a different dealership won’t re-do the fix later). “No recalls” is a good thing, as it means that there are no known unsafe or unreliable parts on your vehicle, or that any of those recall repairs have already been done.<\/p>\n

(Note that in the Wikipedia article below, it refers to general product recalls. With most products, you would simply return the product for a refund, but with cars being so expensive, they will repair just the part the needs to be fixed)<\/p>\n

What do you think? Answer below!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Public Citizen Question by answers4evry1: What is a Car Recall? I called the dealer, and they asked me for the VIN number to “check” any recall. I gave it to this guy, and he said: There’s no recall. What does that exactly mean? Best answer: Answer by JeffA recall is when a car manufacturer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recalls","tag-recall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.faultorfeature.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}