When car models get recalled, how do the concerned companies stock millions of cars in a short timespan?
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The car manufacturers main concern is that as much as possible of your car is to last until the warranty runs out. If they are any kind of worried that a component of the car won’t last until the end of the warranty, they’ll start inspecting the cars.
If it’s a safety related component, it’ll probably be a public recall. All the owners are individually contacted and recommended reach out to their local dealership.
But the recall is not necessarily for a component replacement. It can just as well be for a component *inspection*. You know, have someone with some knowledge have a quick look at it so that your safety is assured.
In reality, they have probably done silent inspections for a while first. All the cars that have been serviced by a dealership recently have had the specific component inspected, and a statistically eerie amount of them had a hint of something that could be a safety risk.
That they actually get to the point where it’s established that too many components have unexpected wear and tear, and that every single vehicle is to come in and have that component replaced with no other selection process at all, that is a whole lot more uncommon.
To recall the entire vehicle, that is very, very uncommon.
My favourite brand, Subaru, had some issues with a welding robot (I think) last year or something like that, and recalled a handful of already delivered vehicles due to safety concerns. Well. They recalled maybe 50 or so if I remember the number correctly, but 10 were already with their buying customers while the others were still at dealers and a lot easier to recall.
Some car recond/wash places also do silent recalls for premium brands. Every time they get a car of a specific brand in for cleaning, they check with the national dealership organisation if that specific vehicle has any hidden campaigns to be done on it. And get paid some extra just to pop the hood and look at hose this and cap that and check if they look like they should. They normally don’t fix anything, but they are an extra pair of eyes in the initial silent inspections.
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