Lol, yeah really. After the fourth one, I was like wow, GM f**king sucks... I knew they were bad, and would never choose to purchase one, but, that's just pathetic. 🤣 GM - Garbage Mobiles
I actually worked for Volkswagen during diesel gate and learned a lot about why they did that from the inside, turns out the big three American motor companies were really upset that Volkswagens diesel cars were getting such amazing gas mileage so they lobbied in Congress to make the emission standards for diesel cars not trucks incredibly strict to the point of it being impossible to actually make a diesel motor in a car that both had enough power to be useful and got good gas mileage without subverting the emissions laws, meanwhile all the big diesel pickups have almost no emission standards at all
I used to have a ‘04 Corolla that was recalled for the Takata airbags. But there’s more; when I bought the car, it had two recalls. One for the airbags, and a second for the airbag controller that had a chance to randomly set off the airbags at any time. So the car was literally a time bomb 😅
I drove an 04 civic with the same shit, crashed almost died in that car no airbags went off thank God, bad at the same time tho smaking into something stopped at highway speed
Mitsubishi had changed twice passenger airbag on my Lancer IX '07. They had change it for the first time, month after that they call me and say that they want to change it again.
As a former Lexus Parts Manager, I was sending pallets of 100 Takata airbags back regularly. The HAZMAT shipping situation was crazy in the beginning but finally mellowed out. Passenger and Drivers airbags over multiple manufacturers, models, and years. A problem with no real end in sight. If I remember correctly a woman in Texas lost her life when a semi truck carrying pallets of bad airbags experienced a detonation on board. The woman was an innocent bystander nearby.
@@johndododoe1411 don't believe it was considered in either of the cases, and was handled separately. The airbag was removed from a vehicle, and in transit to be disposed of "Properly."
@@johndododoe1411 yes, but the devise was not secured in a manner in which it was intended to be during detonation. It was already known to be flawed, and potentially dangerous. I was pissed having a pallet of a 100 minimum sitting in the back of my warehouse for weeks sometimes when it was really backed up, but days on end minimum. The death of that woman should not have been considered in the recall or lawsuits associated with faulty airbags in vehicles. It should have, and likely was handled independently. There are too many variables.
I just saw my car on the takata airbag list, called the dealership and I'm getting new airbags. Donut may have just saved my life, never thought I'd say those words
Still rocking my recalled passenger airbag. 😎 Dealer in my last town was evil and my car never gets passengers because our others are more spacious and comfy.
A fun one that you mightn't know of in USA is that my '18 suzuki swift sport had a recall because closing the rear doors too hard could set off the airbags lmao
In light of GM's latest recall regarding the putting stickers on headlights to make them less bright, I would LOVE to see a video about the dumbest recalls/ recall fixes. This is day 1 of me asking
i cant believe this is real, actually nevermind I can. "we made our headlights too bright and got scolded for it 12 years late heres a sticker to make it slightly less bright instead of making our headlights dimmer"
@@horridbeast4089 I feel like this works, where I live people just use what ever bulbs are brightest because it helps them see and no one else. I have a slightly lower to the ground car and every single truck and suv decided its cool to blind me. the stickers seem like a sneaky way to make it harder to blind everyone
2018 Tahoe/Suburban had a Brembo upgrade that made it so that the spare didn't fit over the larger calipers. The recall was to print an insert to the owner's manual saying that if you got a flat in the front to move a rear wheel up, and put the spare on the back. Assuming that you can do that on the side of the road with a single scissor jack, and that you read your owner's manual.
When I was working at Suzuki, they did a recall on the Celerio because the brake pedal assembly would collapse under heavy braking. (and the car wouldn't actually slow down) This was discovered during an Autocar emergency braking test.
@@TermlessHGW comments like yours are annoying as shit. My brother had a 300zx when I was younger and never shut up about it having "Diablo headlights", and every damn time I mention it someone always says "Nuh-uh!!! You heard about it from such and such!!!". It's fucking stupid.
Ford recently had a similar situation with shifter cable bushings. When I was working for them we had a recall that was ongoing. People would call all the time and we had no idea when we would get the part or if we even would lol.
I worked for them for about 3 months before I got sick of watching them scam people. everyone tells you a mercedes is a money pit, buy a new escalade and watch your bank account drain. never seen more issues from the factory.
@@kapiicefruit put your VIN into the NHTSA recall database. It'll tell you what recalls are out on your car and should also tell you if the recall work has been completed
@@simondoesthings That s why I still in trust with 4 pins seatbelt system than airbag bs. If it safer than seatbelt, why F1 car and rally dont have any airbag in it?
Surprised you didn't bring up the GM ignition key issue. You know, the one they hid for over a decade and when the new person came in to run GM, tried to blame her.
Yep that one was quite bad. They used to have a yearly meeting discussing their recalls and potential recalls and I remember that one being brought up. The thing about was NHTSA knew about it and let the situation be observed was enough for me to go from my janitorial sized keyring to house key and car key. (That change in behavior was the reason I remembered it a decade later when the recall finally happened). The Next year they cancelled the yearly meeting as it was probably doing more to kill morale than to inspire safety consciousness.
I bought a '99 Intrigue in 2002. Gave it to my mother in 2006, she drove it until 2016. We never had the ignition key problem - but, then again, the only thing on the key ring with the key was the remote fob. My stepmother had a '99 Alero V6, a friend of mine had a '99 Alero 4-cyl., neither of them had the ignition problem either - my stepmother only had the fob on her ring, and my buddy never had anything other than a lanyard and his house key on that ring.
Can someone explain what the issue is? I've never heard of this recall thing and after looking it up I couldn't find anything about needing to lessen the amount of stuff on the keyring
The VW one is a fascinating story because the independent testers were not testing for specific cheating on VW's part. They discovered it, because they tested emissions by driving the car rather than sitting it on a dyno and running it. The defeat device VW used was tweaked to detect if the car was stationary when the engine was running and would set a more economic mode in that case.
The whole Pinto debacle was a direct result of the actions of one man, namely Lee Iacocca. He decreed that the Pinto could not weigh more than 2,000 pounds and not carry a retail base price in excess of $2,000. The original design of the sedan and Runabout included the shield for the gas tank. Good, old Lido insisted it be removed because of price and weight concerns. Bad enough, but he is also the one who had the risk analysis done that showed it was less expensive to settle the lawsuits resulting from inhury and death than it was to recall the cars and fix them. The wagons were not affected as the longer rear overhang protected the tank better.
@@computernerdinside Oh yep we have a special tool to measure the distance between the tank and the rear bumper support I think it is, and if it is too close it gets a hitch installed 👀
Even funnier, those engine mounts didn't change until the lt, they fixed the rubber and called it good, they never bothered because the 70s killed the sbc for hp and torque
At that time. ALL companies used the same mount design. GM was the only one to design the accelerator linkage where the engine would pull the throttle open in the event of mount failure. And SOME mounts will eventually fail no matter how well they're made. So it made sense to make it so failure wouldn't cause unintentional acceleration. Later they designed the Mount to have a secondary safety catch so the engine could only lift a little higher than normal if the mount failed in addition To replacing the linkage with an cable that wouldn't react that way. Good thing they did because some people wouldn't fix the mount until the secondary catch broke too.
@@keithjones894 you have a point there. I work at a FORD dealership. But probably 1 of 5 CHevy/GM Full sized Trucks and SUVs that our used car department buys to sell on our used car lot need the left motor mount. Our used car guy has gotten good at replacing them. We replace more GM mounts than FORD mounts.
Government bailouts and consequently China. The bailouts I'm counting as the government apologizing for the several hundred strict regulations they're under, though. Not so mad about it.
I currently work for GM right now at a dealership and I'm still replacing Takata airbag charges because of how many vehicles were equipped with them. Every single Tahoe, suburban, and Silverado from 2008-2013 had these for their passenger airbags.
2:03 Fun fact: Berry bugs are actually arachnids, not insects. You may instead know them as chiggers, harvest mites, or brick bugs (because you find them on bricks a lot). They're the weird little red guys that bite you. Google is probably to blame for this case of mistaken identity. When you type in berry bug into Google, the little search autocomplete thing shows a picture of one with the label "Insect"
Damn, I was eaten up by chiggers one night this summer. It sucked for weeks, and that was just my ankles. What a horrible surprise it must've been for (the asses of) those new Model T buyers! Good thing for Ford there was no Toyota yet 😄 it would've turned me right off of all US cars
Now that I see what's wrong with my air bag maybe I should actually go to the dealership and get that fixed haha. They left me mail about my car being recalled (honda accord 2007) for the air bags. And seeing this actually made me go and get it fixed 👍
I have an 04 Monte Carlo intimidator SS and when the ignition cylinder recall hit I remember the fix for it was they put a small plastic insert into my key to keep the ring from pulling down on the ignition cylinder.... that was really their entire fix
@@eurosonly lmao they sold my girlfriend's mom a brand new tahoe with the heated steering and other electrical features just not on the car, like when the computer chips or whatever come in she can come and get those features added, but holy shit i would've been clamoring for a discount
I can’t believe they didn’t include the MASSIVE Toyota recall on all box frames due to water getting trapped inside, causing them to rust. I know they covered it in another video but still, it was so huge
I had a Hyundai that had frame rust because water would collect in the U shaped frame. Car was an old beater, but they fixed it for free. Would have cost thousands.
Oof that’s my biggest fear as a car guy. Rust. I live in the rust belt in Canada and, try my hardest to keep my car salt free. Couldn’t imagine it filling with water
To any Nissan vehicle that has a CVT continuous variable transmission in their car needs to put it in the recall list Nissan Altima rogue and Sentra are also on the list
My mom has worked at a dealership call center for the past six years, which means, she always comes home with stories about these recalls and freaking out customers.
My previous car had the airbags recalled, and when it got T-boned, the driver's side curtain airbag (the side it was hit on) DIDN'T GO OFF. NOTHING KEPT MY HEAD FROM SLAMMING INTO THE WINDOW. The passenger side curtain airbag went off tho, despite NOBODY BEING IN THE PASSENGER SEAT. Now that I'm thinking about it, maybe I should've sued while I still had the car as evidence.
This reminds me of the time we we're passed down an Altima from a friend that recently passed away, and I wanted to have a look at the engine just to check it out. I hopped in, pulled the hood latch, the hood didn't seems to nudge, pulled the latch a few more times, pulled it harder, and decided to stop before I broke anything. Later, I found a letter as we we're collecting papers and files from our friends home and found one that said "Your 2014 Nissan Altima needs a recall" and I thought to myself "Huh, must be for a stronger sun shade panel." (because the hinge for one in the car had snapped) Then I got more and more curious what it might say instead, I asked my parents what it was for, but they never opened it because they where focused on more urgent paper work like the friends medical insurance, social security number, etc. because the funeral/insurance business wanted that stuff ASAP. So I decided to pop the letter open myself and I saw big bold text saying "Item needing replaced: Hood latch" and I simply said "That clears a lot up..."
I'm surprised that the tacoing Taco frames weren't on the list. Kinda disappointed I didn't get to hear James make fun of trucks folding themselves in half..
I'm surprised Kia isn't on the list or at least a well deserved honorable mention. Basically every modern model from 2012 to 2020 has a recall for catching fire.
I remember the air bag situation. Here in Australia they made creepy ads about it that gives you the chills and they even made a website. Luckily my cars and my family members cars are safe. Also i little emissions don’t hurt.
Kinda surprised the Chevy Bolt EV didn't make the list. It's not often every single car gets recalled like that. Working for Old Dominion Freight, we've actually been seeing a lot of the replacement batteries come in to get sent off to dealers for replacing the poorly installed ones.
As many know even ford was hit with numerous class action lawsuits during the 1970's when automatics knowingly slipped into reverse. By late Y2K or into the early 2010's when both ford and GM collaborated on a line of ten speed automatics.
I’m really surprised he didn’t include Rivian’s recall. They just recalled 13k of the 15.5k trucks they’ve made due to loose fasteners in the steering.
11:04 I hope I'm not the only one that took a screenshot of that meme worthy photo, Just to motivate him when he has his next heart attack 🤷♂️🤣😂🤣😭😭...JK seriously though I hope he doesn't happen another one
My favorite embarrassing recall was a few months ago when Chrysler recalled a few thousand minivans due to the emblem on the steering wheel being improperly glued on
It's always a bad thing when video game developers look at car manufacturers and think, "They get away with half produced crap. We can do the same thing and call it early access." It's an even worse thing when car manufactures look at video game developers and think, "That whole remove key components of the system and then reintroduce them as paid DLC is a phenomenal and flawless idea. We can do the same thing and call it a production mistake."
Mercedes extended the warranty on the ABC brake system for 25 years. Got mine replaced on my 19 year old SL55 AMG for NO Charge!!! Corporate responsibility at it's best!
@@BuickParkAvenue I mean the BZ4x thing affected a whole 258 vehicles. Lol. Not the same scope as the vehicles in this video. Oh, the "unintended acceleration" thing was also found to be user error. (Still a recall though, so maybe would be appropriate here). What else?.. oh yeah, the 1MZ engine from the 1990s that if you neglect oil changes long enough, might die on you.
@@nthgth The frames and suspension of older Tacomas and hiluxes would rust out prematurely because the protective coating Toyota used would trap dirt and moisture inside, causing the rust issues, and Toyota's "fix" for this was to install brackets to hold the rusty leaf springs together.
@@BuickParkAvenue oh, didn't know about that one. What qualifies as prematurely? My 2020 Subaru already has rust forming on some brackets under the hood
The fact that you call out all these companies for their shady practices, especially with public safety, either makes you not so smart or really freaking brave. Whatever the case may be, I think I speak for every driver and every car enthusiast when I say Thank You Donut Media. Your acknowledgment of our safety and well being doesn't go unnoticed.
The KIA one might actually be the worst because there was the very same recall 2 years ago. The solution? A Stop-gap measure that KIA simply applied and left in place without *actually* fixing the problem. And here it is all over again! I have a good friend who swears by KIA. Owned multiple KIAs. But I recently realized that with one exception, he's leased every KIA he's ever had. Always returned them after 2 or 3 years. The one exception was his KIA Soul that he bought new. Back when used car prices were absolutely insane, he sold it for a lot more than it was worth.... after owning it for only 3 years. Yeah, apparently for the first 2 or 3 years; KIAs are mostly reliable.
@@kuebby the NHTSA is who categorizes it as a “recall”. That’s the procedures you are referring to. However, the software update they are talking about in the video was never a NHTSA “recall”. So no, technically it’s not.
The back and forth on that one was quite fascinating at the time; seeing as it was kind of the beginning of the SUV era. Had it gone differently, it may have changed how ‘culture’ of vehicle design progressed and we may not have seen the explosion (no pun intended) of the SUV in North America. The recall sparked some pretty hilarious fear-mongering out there at the time about the danger of SUVs flipping without warning and some odd understandings of how center-of-gravity works.
Bro you just saved my family!!! We have been getting recalls in the mail from mercedes over bad TAKATA air bags and we just haven't had time to take our mercedes in. Definitely parking it till then
Personal favorite is the dodge engine beauty cover recall. On the journeys there was enough room in the engine bay that if the engine cover wasn’t secured properly it could fall to the back of the engine and melt on the exhaust. We just drilled a hole and added a bolt for the recall
I worked for a company called Autoliv. We took almost all business from Takkata. Here's some more insight on why they were dangerous. The Gas inside of the inflator would slowly break down and deteriorate the inflator itself. It was the chemicals they used and they knew about it and stayed quiet.
Bro I swear when I first got into the car world , I started on fitment industries, then I grew up and started working on my own car and found donut media. lol I learned common sense knowledge from fitment industries, but i actually learned the “how to” knowledge from donut. Thank you guys for your time and energy. We all watch because we love all you guys. 7M subs proves it
James, I don't know what your inspiration is for the way you deliver lines in these videos, but it's fantastic and I love it. It's like you're angry at the camera that you have to explain things, sometimes.
Ha, whole time watching this I was thinking about the recall of my moms old car. Turns out it’s included in the Takata one 😂 2003 Honda, I remember we took that thing in multiple times over the years due to airbag recalls, guess it wasn’t fixed the first time they replaced the airbags. Luckily we never had to find out if that issue got fixed as the airbags never deployed
The black and white picture of the truck " Oregon or bust" is my grandfather, his two sisters, brother-in-law and family friend. They traveled over here during the dust bowls to find employment and work. My grandfather is the one sitting on the ground to the right he was 17 at the time. They were starving, looking for work and a prayer. It was really cool saying that picture I have it hanging in my hallway. I absolutely love your guys's channel and I'm a new mechanic. I have a 95 Civic EG hatch that I want to start putting a boost into. You guys motivate me to learn. Thank you.
The TDI recal worked out great for my mother. She got like $7000 back and the car still performs very well with the software updates. I got hit with the Takata think in my 2012 Silverhotto.
Yo, gotta say I love that this is a D list episode, but I didn’t feel like it lacked the quality or spice that they have for a while. Way to go, donut.
For the Volkswagen dieselgate one, as part of their settlement VW agreed to set up a EV charging network to offset their environmental damage (Electrify America) and now they're going to make back 100x what they paid in fines since they were one of the first charging networks
