BMW Recalls 36,922 X3 Models For Steering Control Software Issues
Software has been steering your car for years already, in small amounts, with your blessing. Lane keeping nudges the wheel back when you drift toward the paint. Parking assist takes the wheel outright while you work the pedals and watch the mirror. You accept that help because it arrives when you expect it and does […]
Dodge, Ram Recall Nearly 220K Vehicles For Rearview Camera Issues
You back down the driveway the way you have a thousand times. Right hand over the passenger seat, foot off the brake, eyes down and to the right at the screen in the dash. The screen stays black for the entire reverse, and somewhere in that stretch of nothing you realize you have no idea […]
Jeep 4xe Engine Recall Follows 36 Fires, 3 Injuries
You are holding the newest notice about your Jeep 4xe, and you are reading it against the last one, because the two do not agree. One was about where to park. This one is about what is inside the engine. You bought the plug-in hybrid because it was supposed to be the advanced version of […]
Hyundai Sonata, Kia K5 Gas Tank Recalls
Two sedans, two badges, one gas tank. A Hyundai Sonata and a Kia K5 are sold by different dealers under different logos, and the people driving them rarely think of themselves as owning related cars. They do. Hyundai and Kia recalled 335,590 of these sedans between them because the fuel tank can swell, press into […]
Ford Escape Recall: Defective Liftgate Hinge Covers
The envelope says recall across the top, and for a second your stomach drops. That reaction is earned. The recalls that make the news are about engines that stall and brakes that fade, so the word carries weight before you read a single line. Inside, the recall turns out to be about a strip of […]
Ford Bronco Sport and Escape Fuel Injector Recall: Fire Risk Fix
The first sign shows up in a closed garage before anybody has turned a key. An owner lifts the door in the morning and the air smells like a gas station, not faintly, and not the way a car smells right after a fill up. The Bronco Sport or the Escape has not moved since […]
Ford Backup Camera Recall: One Module, a Million Vehicles
The same computer module sits behind the dashboard of a Bronco, an F-150, a Transit van and a Lincoln Navigator. Ford has had to call more than a million of those vehicles back over what that module does to the rearview picture. That module is why a black screen in reverse is not a private […]
Audi 2021 Models Recalled For Instrument Panel Display Failures
What Owners Should Watch For Audi has recalled roughly 44,400 vehicles from the 2021 model year because the digital instrument cluster (the screen behind the steering wheel that Audi markets as the Virtual Cockpit) can shut itself off while you are driving. When it does, the speedometer, tachometer, gear indicator and driver-assistance warnings disappear with […]