Wednesday 10 April 2013

RECALL - Million KIA and Hyundai car

Because the failure in electric switch, Hyundai Motor Co and KIA Motors Corp has to recall 1.7 million car units in United States. This is one of the biggest recall regarding to this failure.

They recalled it due the electric switch failure which are connected to the braking light. This is continuity from 500,000 car units recall because the same issue back to 2009.

It suppose to when the driver hit the brake pedal, electric switch of this car light the braking light and turn off the cruise control. But because they have issued in the switch, the braking light sometime offline and the cruise control doesn't offline automatically.

Although, this problem doesn't interfere the brake function, but the affect of braking light can be dangerous, especially for a car who's behind it.

This recall encompass 1,059,824 Hyundai car from various model, such Accent and Tucson 2007 model to 2009, Elantra 2007 to 2010, Santa Fe 2007 to 2011, Veracruz 2008 to 2009 and Genesis 2010 to 2011, also Sonata 2011.

Meanwhile, KIA car who has same issued are Rondo and Sportage 2007 model to 2010, Sorento 2007 to 2011, Sedona 2007, Soul 2010 to 2011 and Optima 2011. Total are 623,658 car who got effect of this recall.

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