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.

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Desperation can make people do crazy things and it seems that some Americans are setting fire to their cars for insurance because they can’t make the payments on their cars and are hoping to get a quick insurance claim settlement.

The vehicles are apparently reported as stolen and they are left in places where the police (or someone else) will find them. As a consequence, the number of insurance claims have been steadily in the rise and insurance companies are now scrutinizing all the cases closely, so that they are not becoming fraud victims.

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Land Rover has come forth and announced that they will be giving their Defender a make over with the Fire & Ice limited editions.

The Defender Fire & Ice editions will be getting Recaro bucket seats, all sorts of leather and Alcantara trim, alloy wheels, “color-coded heat and tail lights”, a glass sunroof panel and running boards. The Fire edition will come with a beautiful “Vesuvius Orange Metallic paint” while the Ice edition will get an Alaska white paint with both models getting Santorini black accents.

Of course this is all going to cost you with Autoblog reporting that the special edition Defenders will cost upwards of €68,400 or about $95,000, yikes.

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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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