A pending class action in Florida was just settled, according to Court docket filings. The case, which covered a certified class of Florida consumers, was only days from trial. NHTSA orders an investigation on July 8, case suddenly settles on August 5. No details are available.
The National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration (NHTSA) is now investigating complaints from over 150 Ford Explorer SUV owners that dangerous exhaust fumes are leaking into the passenger cabin. The inquiry involves all 600,000 model 2011 to 2015 Ford Explorer SUVs and was brought after NHTSA received 154 consumer complaints related to the smell of…
The same dangerous transmission that has been plaguing Jeep and Chrysler has now infected Maserati. We have clients experiencing these and many other dangerous issues now requesting lemon law buybacks. Maserati has even issued a massive recall. Call The Hanson Law Firm for help: 858.451.0291. See a recent article in the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/business/maserati-recalls-13000-cars-for-fiat-chrysler-gearshift-issue.html
The Consumers Friend has received consumer lemon law complaints that 2011 – 2015 Ford Explorers suffer from a design defect that allows dangerous exhaust gases, which may contain carcinogens including benzene, to enter inside the vehicles. This may occur when under higher revs and/or when the vehicles’ climate control systems and/or air conditioners are turned…
The Consumer’s Friend has received reports of a large-scale failure of Wire Harnesses on the Ford F-250 and some F-350 trucks. After a hard battle, the Hanson Law Firm has just forced Ford to re-purchase a Ford F-350 that was out of service for over a year! Ford has a major part issue, and California…
Here are the top worst new cars out there, according to Consumer Reports: The Fiat 500L: The boxy Italian design has a balky infotainment system, using a version of Chrysler Group’s UConnect, and transmission issues. The Ford Fiesta: Owners responding to Consumer Reports’ survey didn’t like its automatic transmission. We would add the Ford Focus…
The number of Ford Fiesta and Focus lemons continues to grow. The DSP6 Transmission is now infamous. Ford has even consolidated the hundreds of pending cases in Southern California (LA, San Diego, Orange County, etc.) for pre-trial discovery proceedings. Lemon law cases are, however, still settling pre-trial if they meet Ford’s secret criteria.
Volkswagen / Audi Diesel news flash: the manufacturer now admits that 11 million of its vehicles worldwide were equipped with software that could be used to dupe emissions control tests. This scandal erupted after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a notice of violation of the Clean Air Act to Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, and…
Reasonable drivers can misunderstand that keyless-ignition fobs do not turn their vehicles engines off, which can lead to drivers leaving their cars running in their garages and result in an increased risk of carbon monoxide poisoning since the cars don’t have a safety mechanism to automatically turn off the engine after it’s been left idling…
See this new story: Apparently CarMax is waiting for a catastrophe to happen and their corporate image to suffer a major meltdown before they will stop selling recalled cars? WTNH-TV: Blumenthal; CarMax playing car recall roulette Full report, released yesterday by the CARS Foundation, ConnPIRG, and M & R, with US Senator Richard Blumenthal: http://carconsumers.org/pdf/CarMax-CT-report_New-Haven_Hartford-6.pdf
