Audi has recently announced that they will be issuing a recall for over 10,000 of their A3 and TT vehicles of the 2006-2010 model years.

The recall is over a potentially massive problem; a spring that keeps the fuel tank ventilation valve shut. If, under whatever conditions, this spring were to come loose gasoline could leak into the engine causing a massive fire or worse.

If you have one of these vehicles in question you most likely have nothing to worry about unless you get a call from VW of America but if you want to be on the safe side head over to your local dealership and have them check it out.

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Have you ever wanted to get your hands on a vehicle that potentially has the ability to reach speeds of up to 1,000mph? Well now you can as the late and great Steve Fossett’s jet car has recently gone on sale over at Project 100.

This car was supposed to be driven by Fossett before he disappeared on September 3rd, 2007 and was said to have a high probability of beating the 763MPH record set by Thrust SSC.

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GM is just starting to get their footing in the industrey back but that doesn’t mean they are prone to production problems. Their latest recall deals with 185,903 2004-2009 trucks including the Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon, Isuzu I-280, Isuzu I-290, Isuzi I-350, and the Isuzu I-370.

This particular recall concerns the vehicle’s brake-lamp switch that, due to a production error, could possibly malfunction which means they either won’t work, or will stay lit while the car is on. This is a safety hazard because drivers behind a vehicle with a malfunctioning brake-lamp don’t know when the car is slowing down increasing the probability of a crash.

Like always, GM and the NHSTA say that you can bring your car to a local dealership to get the problem diagnosed and fixed if needed.

Subaru and the NHTSA have recently issued a recall for 15,633 Bajas of the 2005-2006 model year.

This recall will begin in September and focuses on potential cracking of Baja’s fuel hose connection to the fuel pump. If it were to crack it could lead to fuel leaking from the vehicle thus increasing the risk of a fire.

Subaru says that when they begin the recall owners of 2005-2006 Bajas will be able to bring their vehicle to a local dealership to get the problem inspected and fixed free of chrage.

And I thought Pontiac’s problem was widespread — Nissan has recently issued a recall dealing with Murano’s manufactured from 2003-2007, 362,981 to be exact.

This problem focuses on the intake air ducts with could potentially become seperated from the intermediate resonator found in the air intake system due to accelerated aging of the duct material. This problem could potentially have the Murano’s stalling out while in use making for a huge safety hazard.

Nissan says that Murano owners should have a chat with their dealers who will fix the problem free of charge.

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Hyundai and the NHTSA have recently announced not one, not two, not even three, but four separate recalls for four seperate problems.

First up is the motherload, affecting over 500,000 vehicles from 2005-2008. Apparently, these units all share a potential problem with their stop lamp switches that could cause brake lights to not light up when the brake pedal is pressed.

Second, affecting almost 200,000 vehicles from 1999-2004 is a problem exclusive to states that salt their roads to melt ice. Apparently, these vehicle’s front sub-frames are sensitive to this salt and could potentially cause the lower control arm to separate from its mount. Yikes.

Third, affecting over 170,000 vehicles from 2001-2003, is another problem exclusive to states that salt their roads. Due to excessive corrosion caused by the salt these vehicle’s lower control arms have the possiblity of failure.

Lastly, affecting 85,000 vehicles from 2001-2003, is again for the salty states and deals with the rear trailing arms of the vehicle’s suspension failing due to, again, excessive corrosion.

Hyundai is telling everyone who meets the criteria to head to their local dealers where their vehicles will be inspected and repaired if need be.

Having recently been told by the government to prepare for a June 1st bankruptcy filing, GM has yet another problem on their hands. Recently issuing a recall for a staggering 1.5 million vehicles that deals with the engine possibly lighting on fire, the future looks grim for GM.

Apparently in late 90’s and early 00 model cars fittedwith a 3.8 liter V6 there is a chance that oil could be leaked into the exhaust manifold upon hard breaking. And with oil on the exhaust manifold comes the possibility of a spark that could spreak 

Some of these engines may leak engine oil that could end up on the exhaust manifold during hard breaking. If the manifold becomes hot enough, it could cause a fire to start which could then spreak to the spark plug wire channel which would cause all sorts of a mess.

GM is telling owners of these cars to bring them to the dealer immediately where they will be fitted with 2 spark plug wire retainers for free effectively squashing the problem.

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A steering wheel issue has forced Japan car manufacturer giant Toyota to pull out approximately close to 120,000 cars for brands that was divided between new model cars Reiz, Crown sedans and Lexus Luxury models.

Cars that were manufactured back in February, 2005 until October, 2006 seems to be the ones affected, owing to a probable defect that came about in their tie up with the FAW group during this period.

Considering the number of cars being recalled, that is indeed a lot. Just some days back, Toyota was announcing that it would be incurring its first-ever annual operating loss. With this recall, this is bound to toggle the figures more to the red.

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It seems that BMW has issued a recall on 200,000 of its vehicles due to the fact that the front passenger airbag may not deploy during a crash. Hmm, seems serious.

BMW goes on to say that the recall will effect the 2006 3 series, 2004-2006 5 series, and the 2004-2006 x3 SUVs.

Apparently, the NHTSA (National Highway Traffic Safety Administration), has found that small cracks could develop in the seat detection unit that could lead to the airbag getting unintentionally deactivated. Luckily, BMW lets us know that no injuries or accidents have been tied to this problem.