Feds Tell Chrysler To Get the Lead Out And Start Recalling Cars With Takata Airbags

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Tuesday fired off letters separately to both Chrysler and Takata asking the companies to immediately step up their efforts nationwide to repair cars that put drivers and passengers at risk from the exploding airbags.

Chrysler is one of 10 automakers with the flawed airbags in its cars. Last week, one of its executives testified before a Senate panel that it would be another month before it begins to notify customers to have their cars fixed.
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MDarringer - 11/28/2014 6:26:14 PM

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Yeah recall all those cars NOW! What? What did you say? There aren't enough replacement units to handle the recall? Ohh!!, so the idiots at the NHTSA want to piss off (piss on??) millions of owners EVEN MORE?

Vette71 - 11/28/2014 9:28:08 PM

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Yep! JIT (just in time) inventory of parts. Adopted by the Japanese in the 80's and copied by the Americans in the 1990s. Parts arrive for assembly just before needed.Lets the supplier quickly fix bad parts when discovered to keep defective parts out of the installed base. Key to good quality. BUT if millions of bad parts DO get there and need to be replaced, it takes a good while to build up all that inventory needed.