Vehicles On The Lot- Recalls

[Zee09]

Been looking online for a new VW. Found a good dealer. Just waiting to pull the trigger.
Something new to me.....
Dealer shows the vin # online for each new car.

Running the vin over to the VW website and punching it in and many car's on the lot have recalls
or TSB's. Was interesting. The Golf has one for a micro switch but no fix is available yet.

Now do they wait until you buy to fix recalls or is that sorted out earlier. My guess is after you buy.
At least they give you full disclosure....

 

[Nick1994]

If there's no remedy, then not an issue they can deal with yet. Unless it's an extreme problem. I'd sort it out later.

Some recalls aren't that big of a deal either. My Sonata has had an open recall for almost a year and a half, something about the parking brake light might not show if the parking brake is on, faulty switch. But 1. Mine works, for now and 2. I'm not an idiot, I won't drive around with the parking brake on. I keep getting notices and throwing them away.

 

[daves87rs]

I at least like the honesty. And as long as they are willing to do the work to make it right, then I could still see myself buying a VW...

 

[charbaby]

In my area, a selling dealer(NEW CAR) can't sell the vehicle until the recall is satisfied. IDK about a used car dealer selling used cars.

 

[Zee09]

Good to know
Most of the cars have no issues at all
Maybe only the outstanding ones that have no immediate fix are the only real concern
But as noted here... No secrets...Good on VW

 

[Hall]

Ford's rule is apparently that vehicles in inventory get fixed first (within reason). One reason for this is they can't knowingly sell a car with a safety issue. Once a car is sold, they can't make owners get them repaired. A member just posted in the past few days about this - a dealer had 200+ cars on the lot that needed a recall repair done and wouldn't fix their car until those were done.

 

[MONKEYMAN]

Originally Posted by hallstevenson
a dealer had 200+ cars on the lot that needed a recall repair done and wouldn't fix their car until those were done.

That was me with my Elantra. Brake booster recall my first week of ownership. The thing is I use my car to transport people at work. Fortunately dealership policy was overridden by Hyundai call center. Did leave bad taste in my mouth. Dealership profit vs my safety.

 

[bdcardinal]

New cars cannot be sold if they have open recalls here in California. That is hundreds of thousands of dollars of dead inventory that the dealer cannot move off the books, but still are expected to pay the manufacture for and lose floorplan money every week they are still on the lot. If there is no fix, the vehicles sit until there is.

TSBs are not recalls and can only be applied if the vehicle exhibits the concern while under warranty, or an additional warranty that TSB specifies.

 

[Zee09]

I do think recalls should be addressed to cars on the lot before they are sold.
It also saves the customer time as well.

 

[Hall]

Originally Posted by MONKEYMAN
That was me with my Elantra. Brake booster recall my first week of ownership. The thing is I use my car to transport people at work. Fortunately dealership policy was overridden by Hyundai call center. Did leave bad taste in my mouth. Dealership profit vs my safety.

I couldn't remember who posted it but I do recall now and remember you said you got the overridden.

It's not about 'dealership profit' necessarily either. When there's a food recall, grocery stores pull items from shelves (since they can't 'fix' anything). When there's a recall on baby cribs or car seats, Walmart, etc, etc can't or won't sell those. What would happen if the dealer sold one of those cars and told the buyer "bring it back tomorrow, next week, etc to get this recall work done" and the buyer didn't ? Then something happened.... Now, seems to me that there's a alternate solution although most buyers wouldn't like it. That is: You buy a car with an open recall, you can't take it home until the work is done.