{"id":80645,"date":"2014-08-20T12:30:35","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=80645"},"modified":"2014-08-20T12:30:36","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T16:30:36","slug":"feds-unveil-online-recall-info-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2014\/08\/feds-unveil-online-recall-info-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds Unveil Online Recall Info Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Anyone seeking vehicle recall information, can now go to the NHTSA's or manufacturer's website, like GM's, and enter the VIN to get the information.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the United States this year, recalls are coming faster than Kim Kardashian selfies \u2013 about 40 million thus far, and 70 million in the last two years \u2013 and that can make it tough to know if your car, truck or SUV is involved in one.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

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After suffering through some criticism regarding the difficulty in determining is a vehicle is subject to recall, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) today unveiled its new online search tool that allows the public to easily discover if they\u2019re vehicle needs to take a trip to the dealer.<\/p>\n

Those wanting to know can simply go to www.safercar.gov\/vinlookup<\/a> and enter their Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). All major light vehicle and motorcycle brands can be searched.<\/p>\n

\u201cSafety is our highest priority, and an informed consumer is one of our strongest allies in ensuring recalled vehicles are repaired,” said U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx in a statement. \u201cStarting today car owners, shoppers, and renters can find out if a specific vehicle has a safety defect that needs to be fixed \u2013 using our free online tool.”<\/p>\n

Determining whether there is a recall that consumers need to take action on is easy. After entering the VIN number into the field, results will appear if the consumer has an open recall on their vehicle, and if there are none, owners will see \u201cNo Open Recalls.”<\/p>\n

Not only is the tool available at NHTSA\u2019s website, automakers are required to make the same type of tool available on their websites for their vehicles.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis new tool is a significant step and enables owners to accurately find recall information on their vehicle,\u201d said General Motors in a statement. \u201cWe will actively work to upload GM product VINs into the database in a timely manner. We also provide GM customers the ability to find more information on GM specific recalls by entering their VIN on our site, recalls.gm.com<\/a>. Whether through the NHTSA site or our own, we want vehicle owners to easily find the information they need.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Marchionne forms new safety compliance office. For more, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

However, a mid-morning search by TheDetroitBureau revealed only a few \u2013 General Motors, Nissan and Kia \u2013 had deployed the tool on their websites that were conspicuous. Otherwise, owners should scour the bottom of the first page of automaker websites to find the link. In some case, it may require a couple of clicks to get to the screen where the VIN is entered.<\/p>\n

(<\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>\u00a0for details on Honda taking the top two spots on the most stolen vehicle\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>list in 2013.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

For some automakers, the move make the information available required very little effort. Ford\u2019s maintained an online database and tool since 2002 with searches going back to 1986, said Kelli Felker, Ford spokesperson.<\/p>\n

(To see more about Cadillac’s plans for a new flagship, <\/em>Click Here<\/a><\/span>.)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Ford needed to make a few changes to meet the new standards, adding a longer description, consequences, how to fix the problem and the status of the parts needed to complete the repair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recalls are coming faster than Kim Kardashian selfies \u2013 about 40 million thus far, and 70 million in the last two years \u2013 and that can make it tough to know if your car, truck or SUV is involved in one. However, feds and automakers debuted an online tool that lets owners get the info more easily. Go to TheDetroitBureau.com for more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4389,"featured_media":80649,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80645"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=80645"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=80645"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=80645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}