vehicle recall

Last week Volvo issued a recall for more than 3000 vehicles in Australia, the recall has rolled out globally with 507,000 vehicles caught up because of the potential for the engine bay to catch fire.

Mitsubishi Australia is urging almost 17,000 registered owners with vehicles containing Takata airbags to have them replaced immediately.

Japan’s Kobe Steel which supplies huge amounts of metal to car makers has been found to have tampered with data around the strength of the steel it supplied.

Toyota Australia has announced a recall of 14,906 Toyota 86 vehicles to fix a potential issue with loss of power steering.

Mazda is recalling a batch of 2.5L Mazda6 models because of a potential programming error that could see the fuel pump fail after i-Stop operation.