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It is a listing of vehicles that are available to consumers in North America that have serious design, quality and safety flaws.
At best ownership of such vehicles will cost you thousands more than you have expected, and quite often the shortcoming may result in a crash, or even a fatality.
So if you are considering the purchase of “used” vehicle, you are better off avoiding the vehicles that are listed in this section.
While some of the Original Manufacturers eventually tend to do something about the problems to salvage their probably already damaged reputation, quite often you have to front the repair bills, and almost never you get compensated for the damage caused by a crash without extensive legal action which generally at best takes several years.
The solution is rather simple:
If you own such vehicle – sell it NOW;
If you considering the purchase of such used vehicle, - DON’T!
Transmission Failure due to Coolant intermixing with ATF in the heat exchanger that is located in the vehicle's radiator.
Poor material combination selection causes loss of seal integrity and thus coolant under pressure (when vehicle is hot) can leak into the ATF and therefore cause automatic transmission problems or failure, when the vehicle is cold the ATF will leak into the coolant, and thus reducing the cooling efficiency due to oil deposits in the cooling system.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has received at least 200 complaints from owners of below listed vehicles.
Owners allege they had to spend thousands of dollars to fix their trucks' transmissions because Nissan did not cover their replacement if the failure happened after 80,000 miles.
NISSAN has extended the standard 36,000 miles Mechanical Warranty to 96 months or 80,000 miles on the radiators ONLY, but has not taken any responsibility for the Transmission Failures so far.
You can read more information about the extended warranty here:
http://www.nissanassist.com/web/Radiator/index.php?menu=20
Copy from above NISSAN Web Link:
Failure of Power Steering Assist.
Poor material combination selection and inadequate brush spring tension causes loss of contacts on DC Motor that provides the "assist". The problem may be intermittent (assist may fail randomly) or permanent (no assist at all).
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has received some complaints from owners of below listed vehicles. However Internet search listed at least 1,000 such compleints from vaious owners.
Owners allege they had to spend thousand to twelve hundred dollars to fix their power steering as no spare parts are available and the entire steering colum needs to be replaces as an assembly with labor costs alone being in $300 to $500 range.
GM/STAURN has "secret" service bulleting that extended the standard 36,000 miles Mechanical Warranty to 10 years or 100,000 miles on the vehicles with defective power steering units that fail "completely" complaints of "random" assist are not taken seriously if the reparing dealer can not verify the problem.
Failure of Power Steering Assist.
Poor material combination selection and inadequate brush spring tension causes loss of contacts on DC Motor that provides the "assist". The problem may be intermittent (assist may fail randomly) or permanent (no assist at all).
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has received some complaints from over 1,100 owners of below listed vehicles. The complaints included 14 crashes and one injury.
NHTSA opened an investigation Jan. 27, 2010 into approximately 905,000 Cobalt models in the United States after receiving complaints of loss of power steering assist
General Motors (GM) will conduct a safety recall of 1.3 million compact cars to replace a motor in the power steering system. This was in March 2, 2010 announcement & press release from GM.
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