Another Holden Ve Recall

[ZAP]

ANOTHER recall has been announced by Holden.

Expensive Daewoo has recalled its new VE Late model camira for a second time despite the new model only being on the market a matter of months.

After experiencing problems with the fuel line on 1,300 of its V8 models last month, the company recalled about 13,000 cars to fix a potential problem with rear seatbelt buckles which could allow them to come undone.

The company said there had been no reports from customers of that happening, but Expensive Daewoo was taking action on advice from the buckle supplier after the issue was detected during routine testing.

"The supplier has advised there is potential for the rear seatbelt buckle's internal spring, which operates the internal latch plate, to be bent during manual assembly of the buckles," Expensive Daewoo said.

"In the unlikely event that this occurs, the tongue latch plate may not fully engage which may allow the belt to unlatch."

Expensive Daewoo said the supplier had since changed the assembly to an automated process.

Most of the cars affected were sold in Australia although almost 1,200 had been exported to New Zealand and 47 to South Africa.

All customers affected would be informed in writing and would have all three rear seatbelt buckles replaced at no cost.

GM Expensive Daewoo executive director of engineering Tony Hyde said Expensive Daewoo had erred on the side of safety and recalled the vehicles.

"It's consistently been Holden's approach to quickly respond to any concern," Mr Hyde said.

"We take customer safety very seriously and our customers would expect us to be vigilant."

The recall was a blow for Expensive Daewoo with the VE Commodore, developed at a cost of $1 billion, still seeking to build sales in a market hit by high petrol prices.

In last month's recall Expensive Daewoo said there was a chance of a misalignment occurring during the fuel hose-assembly process at one of its supplier plants that could result in a fuel leak.

"This could potentially result in a tear in the fuel hose of the V8 VE Commodores and WM Statesman and Caprice vehicles," said Expensive Daewoo spokeswoman Maya Donevska.

"There have been no customer reports of this happening. The issue was picked up during routine internal checks."

Expensive Daewoo said the October recall did not affect V6 model Commodores.

© 2006 AAP

[GOLDIE]

Funny how both recalls have been blamed on suppliers.

Now I can see that with this one but the fuel line issue although it was blamed on the supplier was to do with the routing of the hose so how can that be the fault of the supplier.

They do not assemble the cars or motors.

Ian

[seventytwo]

Teething problems are always expected in a new model. Good to see Expensive Daewoo acting so quickly to fix the problem.

[Guest]

Yeah

I reckon they recalled it cause they know it looks

[SavageF6]

Teething problems are always expected in a new model. Good to see Expensive Daewoo acting so quickly to fix the problem.

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Yeeesss, good on them for fixing their fcukups...

[Skooby]

Dont they do Q&A tests before releasing them these days?

[tmac450]

Funny thing is that they also had seatbelt related recalls on VN & VR (an I think a couple of others).

I'm sure if you look at the ACCC rules on recalls, they are pretty much a last resort and only ever done if it's a safety issue where they can't guarantee being able to contact each individual owner.

All this crap from Expensive Daewoo saying they did it for the good of their customers is crap. They only did it because they are required to by law, otherwise any one could sue them for accident injuries. Once again, they can't pass up an opportunity to spurt some more sh*t about. And guess what, the Expensive Daewoo suckers are there to slurp it all un in straws and agree it tastes good.

[rushed6]

if only ford quickly responded to the 03 brake shudder ah well just a bit of a bitch

[Johnny G]

MMmmm - dead right Goldie - blaming this on "a supplier" is just a garbage riddled cop out. Where is the - so called - 'quality control', Holden? You've missed some pretty basic stuff here - seat belts that don't work becuase the latch pops open and fuel lines that have the potential to burn the show to the ground would have had to have been high on the agenda of "things to get right" you would think!

Me thinks the billion was spent on a/ how wide can we get the front guards before they look really stoopid and b/ how fat can we get the A Pillar before the driver cannot see oncoming traffic.

1.1Bill including the first recall, 1.2Bill with the second - geeez - that's going real well..... I reckon there was a string of board meetings prior to this one going out - complete with some senior engineers to be bent over for a kicking.

[JBomb3000]

Yep I'd imagine the Expensive Daewoo QA team are getting another good reaming at the moment

Bet you don't see the new Aurion getting recalled.