Yikes! Be afraid, be very afraid. VW and Audi, Skoda and SEAT. Seriously no laughing matter this one.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-06-12/volk...-recall/4747694

This article even mentioned engine rebuild


Mr Makris says he has had the engine rebuilt and gearbox replaced on his Golf.

Case study: Ross Gulliver owns a 2006 Passat

"We had problems over a number of years with the car cutting out when stationary. [It ] wouldn't restart.

"My wife was driving it in most of the instances and it is frightening if you have kids on board.

"I had to drag them (Volkswagen) kicking and screaming to get my car fixed and it is a 2006, with a six-speed and DSG.

"I can't see that the problem is limited to 2008 and beyond."
"I know of some people who have had up to five engines replaced. It's out of control," he said.

"It started initially with a few people, then it blew out to 40 or 50 people, and now it's in the hundreds.

"I believe the cars are very dangerous. I think the DSG (direct shift gearbox), no matter how many times they replace it, it's not going to solve the problem.

"My car's shuddering again. I think it's only a matter of time before we have another tragic fatality on the road."

http://m.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/arti...jectid=10890044

NZ too recall

http://editorial.autos.msn.com/10-largest-...alls-in-history

Yes, GM, Toyota, VW, Ford and Honda has all been in the top recall records

Caption:
Volkswagen has a good recall history relative to other mainstream brands in Australia, given it has issued only two notices since 2007. The notices were for flat batteries in Transporters earlier this year and cracked diesel injector pipes in about 7000 VW and Skoda models in 2012, However, Europe’s biggest car-maker is likely to attract criticism for its delay in issuing the DSG recall in Australia, where it has undertaken a number of ‘service campaigns’ to fix a variety of issues.

Today’s recall notice follows a similar recall of almost 400,000 cars after a Chinese television program investigation and subsequent DSG-related recalls in Singapore, Japan, Malaysia and Taiwan. At the time, VW said Australian models were fitted with different transmissions.

Full article:
http://www.motoring.com.au/news/2013/volks...-dsg-cars-37051

Just adding up numbers – all recent recalls due to a DSG-related problem

91,000 Japan,
384,181 China,
25,928 Australia ,
2,500 NZ ,
6,181 cars in Singapore (accounting for 35% of its car population in the island nation),
3,962 Malaysia,

Audi 6,000.


It is already about half a mil, Anymore?what was Taiwan's recall number, what was USA's?

So in the simplest term, is it the computer system failure? you know computer that hangs and needs reboot... despite all our advances in IT, it always happens

When I look at this vid, all i see can be the problem is the computer

to put things in perspective.

Here is the recalls of all makers
http://autos.aol.com/info/recall/
Among others are:
Chrysler To Recall 630,000 SUVs Worldwide, o6-06-2013
Nissan Recalls 841,000 Vehicles, 23 May 2013
Chrysler Recalls Almost A Half Million Jeeps, 13-05-2013
Honda Recall Affects 205,000 Vehicles, 19-04-2013
Air Bag (made by Japan Takata Group) Recall Affects 3.4 Million Cars From Several Automakers: Toyota, Honda and Nissan .11 Apr 2013
Hyundai and Kia Recall 1.9 Million Vehicles,3 Apr 2013
Honda Recalls Nearly 250,000 Vehicles Over Brake Issue, 14-03-2013
Subaru of America is recalling more than 47,000 cars and SUVs,07-03-2013
Ford is recalling 230,000 minivans,07-03-2013
BMW Recalling Nearly 570,000 Cars, 19-02-2013
Toyota Recalls 1.29 Million Vehicles For Air Bags, Wipers,30 Jan 2013
Honda Issues Major Recall For Airbag Problem (748,000 vehicles), 18-1-2013

you can read all about it if you have time. But if you would like to know the nasty ones, here is top 5 top notorious recall of all time by popular mechanics
http://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/news/...4345725#slide-1

French cars ? what do you expect? not selling in USA since 1980s, staying put in Europe , never really mass produced per se for the rest of the world. Until China...

I am pretty sure there is recalls for French & Italian cars too, but in the biggers scheme of thing, since the numbers are smaller in comparisons to The American, Japanese and Germans, it becomes very tiny puny barely audible little 'pops'

Just wonder Indian cars got recall ? or Chinese even?

not according to Forbes

not even in top 10 also according to brands

http://www.mbaskool.com/fun-corner/top-bra...ml?limitstart=0

not according to Forbes
http://www.forbes.com/sites/joannmuller/20...ding-automaker/


not even in top 10 also according to brands

http://www.mbaskool.com/fun-corner/top-bra...ml?limitstart=0

http://news.drive.com.au/drive/motor-news/...0420-1xc14.html
The above show these for 2012

Forbes’ top car makers for 2012
Volkswagen – 17
Toyota – 25
Daimler – 37
Ford – 44
Honda – 59
BMW – 61
General Motors – 63
Nissan – 85
Hyundai – 96
Volvo – 183
Renault – 187
SAIC – 232
Kia – 253
Fiat – 314
Tata – 348
Dongfeng Motor Group – 450
Peugeot – 458
Suzuki – 514
Isuzu – 721
Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) – 805
Mahindra and Mahindra – 918
Mitsubishi – 1046
Mazda – 1055
Porsche – 1056
BYD – 1266
Great Wall Motors – 1476
Huayu Automotive – 1779

This post has been edited by EnergyAnalyst: Jun 14 2013, 05:22 PM

Forbes does not define largest purely by sales number but if u only want to look at production output . This is 2012 situation :
And I must caution u : time has changed.

The top 3 are still VW or Toyota or GM all three making output in excess of 8 mil (Toyota claimed 9.9 m) and I am not surprise with their recovery after the devastating tsunami and earthquake of 2011.

Then the next 3 spots i.e. seat no. 4 , 5 and 6 belongs to Hyundai-Kia or Ford and Nissan with output level of 5-7mil output each or thereabouts, e.g. Nissan made 4.889 mil, Hyundai-Kia at 7.12 mil and Ford a bit less at 5.67 mil

The remaining 4 spots gets interesting as it is where the 3 mil to 4 mil makers all stands a chance.

Fiat-Chrysler was a little over 4 mil at 4.2 mil took seat 7.
Honda also about 4 mil so seat 8 is taken

Can the French take 9 & 10? Afraid not, why ? the no 1 car maker in China SAIC that owns MG with output 3.6 mil took seat no. 9

2012 happened to be a bad year for PSA where output drop from 3.5 mil to 2.97mil so out they go from top 10 because another Chinese Dongfeng with 3.2 mil makes more so sit at last spot 10.

I must add it was a bad year for Renault too as output 2012 was just 2.6 mil.

This post has been edited by EnergyAnalyst: Jun 22 2013, 12:12 AM

Yeah. Both PSA and Renault are not insignificant. And like I said before have made recalls too

Here is what I have dug out from the great www

http://m.wardsauto.com/psa-peugeot-recall-around-100000-cars
http://m.wardsauto.com/peugeot-recall-2400...-model-307-cars
http://wardsauto.com/peugeot-recall-some-b...-406s-boot-lock

http://m.wardsauto.com/renault-recalls-400...r-nissan-defect

Looks like Renault is the Better French

Hahaha, so possibly the recall-reluctant Renault can blame it on Nissan.

Volkswagen examines water leakage problem in new Golf

Germany's weekly Auto Bild reported today (-5-09-2013) that the company's best-selling model is prone to leakage of water into the co-driver's footwell because of wrongly installed drainage tubes linked to air-conditioning technology.
The magazine report had said about 300,000 VW Group cars could be affected, including its Audi A3 and Seat Leon compact models.

Read more: http://www.autonews.com/article/20130905/A.../#ixzz2e4XTKDJE

This post has been edited by EnergyAnalyst: Sep 6 2013, 09:35 AM