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My  Gas  Pedal Got Stuck Today... I was merging on the freeway today and pressed hard on the pedal to pass a semi-truck with one of those "not responsible for broken  windshields " signs. Suddenly I felt the truck accelerating by itself with my foot off the pedal. It was accelerating like I was  flooring  it. Extremely hard acceleration! Traffic was a little heavy so I was concerned I could rear-end someone. I got confused for 1 second trying to engage neutral. I know my shifter is not on the steering column, but somehow I thought it was for a second or two. I haven't driven a car with a shifter in the column for at least 20 years! Finally I put the  truck  in neutral and the  engine  kept revving until it hit the red area on the tach and the limiter kicked in. I then engaged drive again and everything appeared to be normal and drove home. Scary stuff! The truck is a 2006 access cab with the 2.7 four...

Robert  – 12-09-2017   Just wanted to let you know that my daughter was almost killed on December 6, 2017 at 4:30pm due to her 2006 BMW 325i catching fire. She was driving to work and the engine busted into flames.   She was lucky to pull over do to the car shutting off.  Smart thinking on her part to roll down the window because the door locks failed to allow her to open the door and get out.  The problem is we received no recall notice and had the bmw worked on at two different bmw dealers. How could someone at bmw not know about these issues. I have owned several BMWs but no more. The value of these cars are horrible now. I guess with insurance I will take a 10,000 dollar loss and have a daughter with no vehicle. I thank God she got out, but would like to hear from BMW http://www.corporate-office-headquarters.com/bmw-of-north-america-llc

The US government put a VW Exec in prison for the emission scandal, yet the FORECLOSURE KING,  Steven Mnuchin  who put Americans on the street gets appointed TREASURY SECRETARY?  Hold on to your wallets! Even as the Trump cronies seek to destroy emission standards, the Clean Air Act, allow Dirty Coal......   VW fires 'dieselgate' executive in his US jail cell Photo: DPA AFP news@thelocal.de @thelocalgermany 22 December 2017 Volkswagen has sacked an executive who was jailed for his role in the German automaker's "dieselgate" scandal - by sending a letter of dismissal to his US prison cell. German newspaper Bild am Sonntag said it learned from sources close to the firm that Oliver Schmidt, who was this month sentenced to seven years in jail, was summarily dismissed in a letter sent to his prison in Milan, Michigan. "His employer is leaving him in the lurch," the daily wrote, accusing Volkswagen of turning Schmidt into ...

Honda says ruptured Takata airbag led to death in Louisiana Inflator in the Civic was not the original one installed December 19, 2017 @ 7:22 pm Sanjana Shivdas Reuters Honda Motor Co.'s North American unit and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Tuesday that a ruptured airbag inflator of Takata Corp. used in a Honda Civic caused the death of the driver on July 10. The 2004 model car involved in the crash in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, was under recall but had not received the repair, the company said, adding that the ruptured inflator in the vehicle was not the original one installed. Takata airbag inflators have been linked to at least 18 deaths and 180 injuries around the world. Honda has so far removed over 100,000 inflators from salvage yards and has requested that major online auction sites prohibit and stop the sale of affected airbags. http://www.autonews.com/article/20171219/OEM/171219727/honda-says-ruptured-takata-airbag-led-to-de...

Did insurer pressure lead to $42 million verdict? December 18, 2017 @ 12:01 am David Kushma Eric Freedman A Texas jury concluded that substandard roof repairs to this used 2010 Honda Fit aggravated the effects of a collision in December 2013. Red arrows show where the roof detached during the crash. To Dallas lawyer Todd Tracy, a $42 million jury verdict for substandard repair work on a 2010 Honda Fit should sound a clarion call to dealerships, insurers and automakers. "That's going to cause alarms to go off and red flags to go off," says Tracy, whose firm represents plaintiffs in vehicle safety and crashworthiness cases, including the owners of the Fit. John Eagle Collision Center, a body shop associated with John Eagle Auto Group in Dallas, used glue instead of welds to fix hailstorm damage to the Fit's roof, although Honda's repair manual calls for 108 roof welds. The shop took the cheaper (by $3,000) but unsafe route und...

GEICO CLASS ACTION SAYS ELECTRONIC VEHICLE SCANS SHOULD BE COVERED By Paul Tassin  December 18, 2017 An Oregon man says GEICO needs to cover the cost of electronic vehicle scans to verify the repair of collision damage. According to plaintiff Leif Hansen, defendant Government Employees Insurance Company has been denying insurance coverage for vehicle scans that are required or recommended by the manufacturer. “Without the electronic scans, damage to the policyholders’ vehicles goes undetected; system problems go unexplained; and GEICO puts unsafe cars back on the roads,” the complaint reads. According to this GEICO class action lawsuit, pre- and post-repair scans are a computerized check for diagnostic trouble codes. They can help identify necessary repairs before work begins, and afterward they can help confirm the repairs were successful. These scans cost about $100 each, Hansen claims. Manufacturers like General Motors, Nissan, Honda and Toyota either require or...

MUST READ:  F ord Asks for Takata Recall Pass Posted on Monday, Dec 18th, 2017 On July 10, 2017, Takata recalled PSDI-5 driver air bag inflators containing phase-stabilized ammonium nitrate (PSAN) as a generant and calcium sulfate as a desiccant, which were used in vehicles sold in the United States as original equipment in frontal driver airbag modules. Recall 17E034 affected 2.7 million Ford, Mazda and Nissan vehicles produced between 2005 and 2012. http://www.safetyresearch.net/blog/articles/ford-asks-takata-recall-pass The price of delay: Lancaster County man’s death prompts lawsuit, national recall over airbags BY TEDDY KULMALA JANUARY 29, 2016 08:16 PM A Lancaster County man who was killed when his pickup struck a cow last month would still be alive had it not been for the truck’s defective airbag deploying violently, shooting a piece of shrapnel through his neck and spine, his family says in a lawsuit filed this week. Joel Knight...

MAP ON  LINK Alarming amount of car crashes outside schools, study says | Digital Short ABC Action News Published on Dec 13, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvHmsiIqQS8 (0:55 sec video segment) ----------------------------------------------------------------- ABC Action News Published on Dec 13, 2017   Are your kids safe walking to school or even getting off the bus near school? A Florida law firm dug through the FL Department of Motor Vehicle records to find out the number of crashes within 500 feet of schools— and it’s alarming! How safe is your child’s school zone? This map will show you. BY HOWARD COHEN DECEMBER 12, 2017 04:57 PM UPDATED DECEMBER 12, 2017 05:28 PM The School for Advanced Studies and New World School of the Arts, both on Miami Dade College’s Wolfson campus in downtown Miami, are the most dangerous schools in Florida when taking into account vehicle crash data, according to a new study. The company, ...

Betsy Benjaminson:  thoughts concerning ...   1.  Betsy is, and was, little known (sadly) outside of a small circle of individuals on this planet; only publically identified as “The Toyota Whistleblower” for approximately the final 4.5 years of her life.   2.  She has now (tragically) become an “historical figure.”   3.  While she became “a public figure,” following the Corporate Counsel Magazine article in March 2013, with limited mention in the four Japan Times articles in June 2013, and received some coverage in the Israeli media in early 2014, she was never “featured,” in a large mainstream worldwide media article, or major American TV show segment, such as 20-20, 60 Minutes, etc.   4.  She was let-down, and failed, by many; not the least of which was NHTSA (who after all, had initiated 3-4 (at least initial) “investigations” into reports of Toyota SUA events earlier on their own – which subsequently w...