recall (in)eligibility?

[brages]

Have you ever been ineligible for a recall that you think you should have been eligible for?

It's my perception that car companies try to limit the scope of a recall as much as possible. Sometimes I think they limit it TOO much and exclude vehicles that have the same problems - for the same reasons - as the vehicles included in the recall. For example, lots of people with Honda Pilots having rod bearing failures who are excluded from the recall. https://www.piloteers.org/threads/connecting-rod-recall-class-action-lawsuit.184808/

Has this ever happened to you?

 

[SwampSurvivor]

I have the opposite with my truck. I still get letters from Ford that my cruise control switch is faulty and going to catch the truck on fire.

It doesn't have cruise control OR the switch that catches fire ...

 

[bdcardinal]

I have the opposite with my truck. I still get letters from Ford that my cruise control switch is faulty and going to catch the truck on fire.

It doesn't have cruise control OR the switch that catches fire ...

If you go to the dealer they can look at it and close the recall. We do it all the time.

 

[fantastic]

I've never experienced or done any warranties on any vehicle b/c I buy old but my opinion is that they will indeed limit the scope to vehicles still under warranty if possible. They're surely not interested in older year vehicles that would have more miles on them. I had at least one older vehicle w/4.6 Northstar, I've owned, that should've had a recall for the head gaskets but nope...never happened. These days I think they're pushing for recalls more so now though & think things have improved.

 

[brages]

I've never experienced or done any warranties on any vehicle b/c I buy old but my opinion is that they will indeed limit the scope to vehicles still under warranty if possible. They're surely not interested in older year vehicles that would have more miles on them. I had at least one older vehicle w/4.6 Northstar, I've owned, that should've had a recall for the head gaskets but nope...never happened. These days I think they're pushing for recalls more so now though & think things have improved.

Generally, recalls are ostensibly performed for safety reasons and because of that will not be limited to vehicles under warranty.

 

[Dave Sherman]

The Chevy dealer refused to admit the wife's oil-burning Equinox had the faulty piston rings, even though it fell within the years that had them, it was indeed burning through a quart of oil every 1500-2000 miles, and we had the letter from GM saying the faulty piston rings would be covered. They insisted it was a clogged PCV system causing the oil burning, and wanted $600 to pull the intake manifold to clean the PCV pinhole. Pulled it myself, hole was not clogged. Still refused, even when I suggested I could bring the intake manifold to them to show them the hole was clear. A BG EPR treatment actually fixed it for a little while. I guess it becomes a piston ring problem only if you fork over $600 first.

 

[fantastic]

Generally, recalls are ostensibly performed for safety reasons and because of that will not be limited to vehicles under warranty.

That's the idea but OEM's might have another. I hope it's never limited in scope if there are safety risks involved but just like the link you provided where one poster mentioned his engine failed but was outside the claimed recall years.

 

[mk378]

Recalls are mandated by the government for safety issues. The age of the car or the warranty term does not matter. A potential for sudden engine failure is a safety issue since someone might end up stalled in the middle of a freeway or something.

 

[CleanSump]

In the past month I received a recall notice for a 2010 BMW X3, N52 cam bolt replacement. They notified me the parts are in stock at my closest BMW dealer and to call for the service.

 

[Brybo86]

If you go to the dealer they can look at it and close the recall. We do it all the time.

Do you remove the valve covers to inspect cams on these Honda 3.5?
Simply listen for abnormal engine noise?
Or are you talking about cars in general?

 

[bdcardinal]

Do you remove the valve covers to inspect cams on these Honda 3.5?
Simply listen for abnormal engine noise?
Or are you talking about cars in general?

I have no clue how Honda does things. I just know how Ford and Mazda work. The person I was responding to was talking about a cruise control recall on a Ford that doesn't have cruise control. They did a blanket recall those years and one of the labor ops was to inspect and confirm no cruise control deactivation switch present. We claim that labor op and it closes the recall in OASIS. This was usually 90s E and F series where the VIN cataloging..... wasn't the best.

 

[Nessism1]

The Chevy dealer refused to admit the wife's oil-burning Equinox had the faulty piston rings, even though it fell within the years that had them, it was indeed burning through a quart of oil every 1500-2000 miles, and we had the letter from GM saying the faulty piston rings would be covered. They insisted it was a clogged PCV system causing the oil burning, and wanted $600 to pull the intake manifold to clean the PCV pinhole. Pulled it myself, hole was not clogged. Still refused, even when I suggested I could bring the intake manifold to them to show them the hole was clear. A BG EPR treatment actually fixed it for a little while. I guess it becomes a piston ring problem only if you fork over $600 first.

Maybe try another dealer?

Not a recall, but two extended service bulletins were issued on the AC system of my car. I confirmed that at least one of the issues was occurring on my vehicle, but the dealer refused to fix it unless I agreed to a $2000 evaporator replacement job. Went to a different dealer, and they said no problem, and fixed both of the extended warranty issues without mentioning anything about the evaporator.

 

[4wd]

Recalls are mandated by the government for safety issues. The age of the car or the warranty term does not matter. A potential for sudden engine failure is a safety issue since someone might end up stalled in the middle of a freeway or something.

Yep, somebody just hung a tag on the doorknob for 2007 C300 …
Been gone since 2013 …