This is not a recall, they're being told to buy back 300,000 Ram trucks. That's gotta smart...

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ap-sou...215648095.html

 

The one I saw earlier was 500,000 trucks https://www.yahoo.com/autos/fiat-chr...132053047.html still an ungodly amount.

 

FCA seems to be taking it well, simply saying they are making sweeping changes. Wouldn't want to be working there at the moment.

 

Interesting for sure, but what does this have to do with the 2015 F150?

ON edit: Looks like the trucks involved in the forced buyback can be repaired and sold. That's bad news to Ram owners who aren't part of the buyback because the value of their trucks is going to tank as the market gets flooded. Fantastic news for guys like me who may be in the market in the next few months.

I think this is a spectacular example of a government overreach, but that's probably a discussion for another forum.

 

Or the federal government is finally showing the automakers they mean business when it comes to vehicle safety and recalls. Betcha FCA won't make THAT mistake again...

 

For me? Glad I didn't buy a Ram!

 

Least I'm not the only one who has been noticing this lately. Now can someone please tell the men in the white coats to take me out of this straight jacket?

On a more serious note, I don't understand why they can't just issue a recall and people FC doesn't have to buy back so many vehicles. Is it just to get that many more repaired instead of people just letting the vehicle sit and run around? Guess it just made much more sense. GM really dropped the ball with how many vehicles they let fly under the radar with major defects.

 

Based on what I read/heard, they did issue a recall; years ago. However, FC has been dragging their feet on actually doing it. Guess they didn't want a repeat of the GM decade-long ordeal.

 

They (Chrysler) issued several recalls but they didn't fix the vehicles; numerous people complained after the first (and even second) repair that the vehicles still exhibited the same problem. Chrysler has a history of not taking these issues seriously, going back to at least the mid-1990s or even earlier. After the GM debacle, the feds are not about to let ANY auto manufacturer make them look like they aren't taking their job seriously.

 

Moving to appropriate forum.

 

What, pray tell, is the correct forum?

 

"The government takes their job seriously"

Wait, what?

 

My thoughts exactly. Though Chrysler is lucky that they are still even in business, even GM for that matter. People kind of act like the past was no big deal.

Going on safety recalls, the one that really hurt was Ford/Firestone fiasco of the 90s and early 2000s. At least from what I was told working for a shop owned by Firestone/Bridgestone, Ford was told by Firestone to have a minimum of about 32psi in the tires, but Ford did not change the tags and allowed something like 25psi or so. Which ended up killing a near 100 year contract with Ford and Firestone.

Unfortunately its things like this and that, that really has to make you feel that automakers really do not care about customer safety and only about the bottom dollar. Every manufacturer has done this at one point in time or another. Maybe there needs to be more severe consequences implicated when manufacturers just straight up ignore the fact and not fix the problem. I wonder what Ford would have done with the Mustang problem if nothing had happened to GM. Would they have addressed the problem as fast as they did or just let it ride out?

Crap like this is why I am really dreading the push for self-driving vehicles as well as other things that go along with it.

 

So they buy the trucks back at current market value which is about trade in value anyway and then sell more new trucks.

 

I wonder when they're gonna force Ford to buy back all the late-model Super Duties for the death wobble.