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More cars share common components. Toyota’s gas pedal assembly is an example of this: same part, eight million cars.
The flipside is that, despite this, problem rates are going down and cars are less expensive to buy for the given content they have. If you don’t leverage platform sharing, your costs go up, your reliability goes down and you’re eaten alive by your more agile competitors.
This is exactly right, Psarhjinian. The larger number or recalls come from part sharing. Like the GM heated wiper fluid recall effected Chevy, Buick, GMC, and Caddy vehicles. Part sharing is the present and future.
Lawyers.
…and the TREAD Act.
Well, the 2004 Focus had a bunch of recalls. Maybe that explains why there were more cars recalled than were manufactured that year.
Can some clarification be added to this info-graphic?
Like:
– What is “Annual Recall Campaigns” representing? Dollars? Vehicle lines? Recall Events?
– How does the 6 month number (shown for 2010) match the yearly figure? Does it usually indicate 50% of the recalls for that year? (ie. it states that this year is “on pace” to be a highest) If so, how often?
– Is the “Annual Vehicle Recalls” the number of vehicles recalled that year or is it the model year of the vehicle recalled.
This info-graphic currently is more graphic then info…
I’m expecting a huge jump for 2010. Anybody with the slightest doubt will pull the recall trigger.
It could be that more recalls are happening because it is harder to suppress the information. With the Internet, it is easier to see multiple customers having the same problem and correlate it to a manufacturing or design issue.
Overall quality can still be improving even as recalls go up, because the remaining quality issues are more visible.
That doesn’t really do much good without knowing what % of vehicles sold were effected.
Logged in to say pretty much this. This is useless you know the population of cars that it applies to.
Definitely social networking/internet and harmonization of platforms and parts. The former – an educated consumer is a car companies best friend and worst nightmare. Real/believable/verified product complaints can be shared by millions in minutes and this ability isn’t going to go away anytime soon. The latter – is self explainatory but you have to wonder why the testing of parts isn’t to a higher standard then it used to be given the cost/risk of failure has gone up by a factor of 3 or 4.
You are assuming parts testing isn’t been made into a higher standard. It very likely is. No one’s testing facilities are perfect.
This seems like a simple, yet least useful way to spin the data…
I assume this is a graph of the years in which the cars were recalled, since there were probably not 30 million cars sold and all recalled in 1981.
Wouldn’t it be more useful to show the cars for the model year that they were built? Or how about average recalls per car by model year?
Seems like the graph just shows how much better govt/customers/lawyers are getting at finding problems, corellating them and making it a big deal until the mfr recalls them.
There are so many different possible hypotheses that it seems like this graph data doesn’t tell us anything useful at all. I guess that is what is wrong with the picture.
Was 2004 the year Honda had their MASSIVE recall.
You know, the recall for a typo in their owner’s manual that gave a wrong phone number.