Safety in numbers says cheap car insurers..
Cheap car insurers such as ourselves like to think that we're nothing if not a public service website, informing one and hopefully someone else standing close by as to the crucial motoring/insurance industry news of the day. So I guess that's us done for now then. But wait! What's this? Very important snippets of info just reaching us here at the cheap car insuring news desk - before we call the cleaner's in. Especially so if you happen to own a car. Which might not necessarily narrow our cheap car insuring audience down too much, but given our cheap car insuring audience was streamline to say the least before we started; it may just be of vague interest to someone. And his pal, if he's not wandered off by now. That's providing either one of the cheap car insurers own a Renault, Nissan, Citroen, Saab, Volvo, Vauxhall, Vee-Dub, BMW, Land Rover or Toyota? You guessed it folks, its product recall time again here at the home of trouble-free/cheap car insurance motoring. This time round we've got a veritable feast of failing automotive smorgasbords that usually offer the discerning palate something a trifle appetising in the driving department. If you remove both Vauxhall and Renault from the menu for starters. So what samples exactly have to be returned to the food standards agency? Well, the lot as it is.
Brake failures, fuel leaks, dodgy airbags and gearlever gear sticker-adhesives that come off in your sweaty palm are the order of the day, and are behind the latest batch of safety-based recalls, which when manufacturers are combined, address some 150,000 vehicles. Less my Golf with the peely sticker issue. I'll save that for another time. Renault are the biggest culprits again when it comes to shoddy workmanship, as their flippant mechanics want to have another look (or possibly a proper first look) at something as inconsequential as the brakes on 58,226 of its Megane and Scenic models. The latter affording the unlucky scenic views of a ditch if they don't act on the advice. If your Megane was shoddily put-together between October 2002 and February 2004; or your Scenic was haphazardly constructed between June 2003 and January 2004, then you best not push your brake pedal down to the chassis metal with too much urgency. And grab your rosary beads from the glove box just in case. Nissans got a little complacent too it seems. Around about the 2000 - 2005 period, when technicians turned a blind eye to 27,869 fuel tank filler tubes on the X-Trails that could rust away and allow for fuel leakage as owners fill up. Which might then cause a fire, a fantastic light show, and probable death to those spectating. Rear seatbelts are wearing thin on 1434 Z50, previous generation, Murano's; which could cause injury in an accident. Providing you crashed into a hotel or something that might create a small blemish on the Murano's surface, and therefore jolt one of the 15,000 passengers. Citroen it has to be said, are crap. And the froggy manufacturer is in the midst of contacting 25,083 of those who believed the hype surrounding the C4 to impart these findings. But they won't will they? Instead they'll just tell anyone who was foolhardy enough to buy one between November 2004 and January 2006 that their front airbags may not deploy in time if they took the brave decision to undertake their own rigorous crash test programme of research. Or deploy at all. Also, 5117 C8 owners are being targeted (and hopefully put out of their continued misery) with regards moisture affecting their braking performance. If they're too idle to shake properly after taking a travel break, then this is their own stupidity, as anyone knows that trouser legs end near Hush Puppies. And Hush Puppies come into direct contact with stopping pedals. Idiots. Oh, and 126 Xsara Picasso snapper-uppers of, between February and May 2004, could experience problems with their engines. Although personally, I'd be more concerned with my street cred.
Saab owners, well 20,905 architects anyway, might be a tad worried over high temperature engine bays. That could end in impaired braking performance. And a lot of hissy-fits and slinging down of portfolios on dealers desks. On 9-3 models built between July 2002 and March 2005 in particular. Volvo on the other hand are plagued by leaking fuel lines on the S40 and V50, which along with the word disaster spells the word explosion. Steering failure means that 16,386 XC-90's constructed without due care and attention to the steering apparatus between January 2003 and 2006, may part company with the roads. And their drivers. Whereas 1521 VW Sharan owners/operators may witness an impromptu pyrotechnical display as their flywheels spark. Vauxhall have recalled everything they have ever made, placed in a massive compound and are about to torch, and Toyota are wanting to replace the steel wheels on 851 RAV4's made sometime this century. Because they don't like the design or something. Land Rover Discovery's could leak fuel, which seems to be very much in vogue this season, and 11 BMW M6's thrown together between February and April this year may have tyres which deflate themselves all of a sudden because they might have been damaged when fitted. Might/if/who/what/when,etc...Cheap car insurer - Quotedetective.com - takes a deal more pride in their cheap car insuring work. Not once have they had policies returned because they didn't work for the owner. So, with a little attention to details, things don't have to be this scary.
Date - 01/08/2006
