DVLA Swansea office staff are too scared to work in the Government buildings, the PCS Union has said. Now Welsh Government has told officials in the Morriston and Llansamlet centres that staff must work from home unless essential for office duties after 500 people were found to have contracted Covid-19 and motorists are facing delays to documents’ … [Read more...]
Kia US recalling more models for air-bag check
Kia Motors Corp is recalling more than 507,000 vehicles in the United States because an electronic glitch may prevent air bags from deploying in a crash. The recall follows an announcement in March by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration that it was investigating why some air bags had failed to deploy in Kia vehicles and its affiliate … [Read more...]
Newslines 15 September
The eagerly expected new 350ps 2.3L Ford Focus RS Edition has been announced at £35,795 with deliveries expected in November. It features a mechanical limited slip differential in the all-wheel-drive system that permits a drift-mode, Nitrous Blue paint with black details, special trimmed seats and carbon-fibre touches. Technology Prof Alan Dix told a … [Read more...]
Newslines 4 June
Toyota, Fiat Chrysler, Volkswagen and Mitsubishi are still selling new vehicles with defective air bags that will eventually need to be recalled, according to a report by a US lawmaker overseeing the agency handling the largest-ever auto safety recall. Automakers confirmed they are continuing to sell some vehicles with ammonium-nitrate inflators without a … [Read more...]
Faulty airbags found on new MINI and some BMW models
Thousands of MINIs will be recalled in America to replace faulty front airbags which may not fully deploy. The fault was identified on US models from 2014 to 2016 and covers about 6,000 Cooper S, Cooper, John Cooper Works and some BMW i3 cars as well which used the same parts. The owners will be contacted by BMW and MINI and remedial work will begin at … [Read more...]
Toyota & Nissan extend airbag recall around the world
Toyota and Nissan are expanding a recall previously issued in North America to the rest of the world including Europe to replace potentially deadly passenger-side airbag inflators made by Takata Corp. Toyota said it would recall another 2.86 million vehicles across 24 models produced between April 2003 and December 2008, including 1.729 million in Europe, … [Read more...]
Millions of cars recalled worldwide with possible faulty airbags
Honda recalled close to 5 million vehicles fitted with potentially faulty Takata Corp air bag inflators, as investigations showed the problem behind one of the biggest auto safety crises may be more widespread than thought. The latest move by Japan's third largest automaker brings the overall global total of vehicles recalled for Takata-related air bags … [Read more...]
