SC recall summary: Toyota, Honda, GM, and Nissan car recall in one spot

It seems that vehicle recalls are chic these days. Everyone is doing it. Toyota really got the trend going and set the bar really high. Honda and GM followed shortly after and now Nissan has joined the club. With all the recalls its hard to keep up with everything that’s happened. New recalls might be mistaken for old recalls and ignored. To help you out, here’s a short summary of the major recalls that have affected South Carolina drivers as well as people all over the country and world.

Toyota originally issued it’s now infamous Prius recall which an issue with brakes that some drivers complained would not engage consistently when the brake pedal was pressed. The system would cause it to engage and disengage very quickly many times per second. Over 8 million vehicles were involved with those Toyota recalls. They later recalled some Toyota Tacomas as well for a crack in the propeller shaft. US lawmakers requested that Toyota appear at a hearing to discuss whether the automaker was negligent in withholding information. However, the company’s CEO would not appear in person. Toyota representatives in the US attended on behalf of the company. Over 30 accidents and several deaths were associated with the recall. There was also an issue with gas pedals sticking in several different Toyota model vehicles.

Honda followed that with an announcement that at least 437,000 of its vehicles had deficient driver’s side airbags that were capable of killing a person because of too much force. The vehicles involved there were the Honday Civic, Accord, CRV, and Odyssey. That particular recall brought Honda’s total to around 1 million since 2008.

Not letting Japan have all the fun, GM joined the party and announced a recall of 1.3 million vehicles whose power steering had the potential to go out while driving. The vehicles affected were Chevy Cobalts and Pontiac Pursuits and G5s.

But the fun was not over yet. Toyota announced an additional recall of 1.6 million vehicles. This time it was their famed Camry. The affected vehicles have leaky oil hoses. However, Toyota conveniently stated that they did not consider this a recall since the defect didn’t immediately threaten anyone’s life. The oil light will reportedly come on to announce the low oil level.

Then, most recently, Nissan announced their own recall of over 500,000 vehicles.  The Nissan Titan, Armada, Quest, and Infiniti QX56 were the affected vehicles. They had pins holding together the braking system that had a tendency to come lose resulting in “deficient” braking.  The majority of the recall, though, was for faulty fuel gauges that had a tendency to say the car still had gas even when it was about empty. This usually showed up in vehicles with more miles on the odometer.

And that, South Carolina, is the recall soap opera that has been our lives for the last couple of months. I’m sure there will be some new episodes in the future.

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