The refurbishing does add a blemish to your identity but if you see it in a positive manner, it proves your concern for the products already sold. I go with the former convention, as the automotive companies should ensure that their cars do not have a major defect before they float them out at dealerships.
The latest company to be involved in the refurbishing act is Volvo which has recalled 3, 60,000 vehicles as they have a problem with vehicle velocity controls which causes the engine to loose power without a forewarning .
To be more specific the recalled cars; Volvo C70 and V70 models built between 1999 and 2002, S60 models built between 2001 and 2002, and S70 and V70X models built between 1999 and 2000 have a defect in the electronic throttle unit which causes a car to reallocate into a mode at which the car travels at a max. speed of 25Km/h.
Dubbed as the ‘limp home mode’, it actually prevents the driver from unintended acceleration in case of throttle malfunction, it is this limp home module unit in which this uncanny problem was tracked. NHSTA was the one, who ordered Volvo to recall all the above-specified models,
The problem is being rectified by incorporating the recalled vehicles with a new software installation for the throttle control unit. Volvo spokesperson Christer Gustafsson cited:
We’re already doing about 2,000 or 3,000 of these a week.
I am repeatedly forced to mention that it is a direct out come sloppiness at the time of manufacturing. One should only make a car available for purchase when he is rest assured that the car has no major defect that could potentially trigger a recall. What are those pre -production tests all about, aren’t the engineers involved aware about such deviances at that time?
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