Posted on 07/27/2015 12:26:16 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Fiat Chrysler must offer to buy back from customers more than 500,000 Ram pickup trucks and other vehicles in the biggest such action in U.S. history as part of a costly deal with safety regulators to settle legal problems in about two dozen recalls.
The Italian-American automaker also faces a record civil fine of up to $105 million. In addition, owners of more than a million older Jeeps with vulnerable rear-mounted gas tanks will be able to trade them in or be paid by Chrysler to have the vehicles repaired.
The settlement is the latest sign that auto safety regulators are taking a more aggressive approach toward companies that fail to disclose defects or don't properly conduct a recall.
The Ram pickups, which are the company's top-selling vehicle, have defective steering parts that can cause drivers to lose control. Some previous repairs have been unsuccessful, so Fiat Chrysler agreed to the buyback, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Owners also have the option of getting them repaired, the agency said in documents released Sunday.
The older Jeeps have fuel tanks located behind the rear axle, with little to shield them in a rear crash. They can rupture and spill gasoline, causing a fire. At least 75 people have died in crash-related fires, although Fiat Chrysler maintains they are as safe as comparable vehicles from the same era.
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Italy! Can’t build a car apparently.
:p
/sarc
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This seems to be from the pre-Fiat era.
That is why I was using the sarcasm tag
Recall is for 2009-2012 MY vehicles
Merger was in 2014
This is all on Chrysler
Selling our Town and Country this week.
Good riddance.
What a POS
right now, fiat is trying to sell washing machines on wheels with sheer, undiluted sex. honestly, those wimmins in the fiat commercials are so hot, it was months before I realized they were car commercials.
Yeah...
Good luck with that.
The Jeep Ignition Switch Recall has been out there for well over a YERA, and not a SINGLE Central Indiana Dealer has gotten parts for it, yet.
Screw the damn government and it oppressive regulation.
Free market capitalism is what should decide if Fiat or any other corporation treats it’s customers right, and succeeds or fails.
In the case of the jeeps, it dates back to the Daimler era.
those pesky, sneaky Germans!
so.....Obama conned FIAT into taking over Chrysler to save all of those UAW jobs, and then brought the hammer down and made them buy back 500K defective vehicles?
SUCKERS!!!!
Guess my 84 CJ isn’t covered...
Aha! So that’s what you were being sarcastic about...
Feeble
Italian
Attempt at
Transportation...
Fix
It
Again
Tony
I had a Fiat X1/9 back in the day.
I spent more time UNDER it than I did IN it!.....................
My 82 isn’t either besides it needs a replacement engine. No luck for my 65 Willys either.
My ‘69 Roadrunner isn’t either.
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