Check Your Car For Any Recalls

Friday, 30. October 2009

There are a number of vehicle recalls each year, some of which are fairly minor causing no more than an irritation whilst others are much more serious which could result in injury. One of the latest recalls was issued by Ford on 29,000 Focuses for a potential overheating problem in the cooling fan to be rectified. The warning read: Focus (potential overheating/fire risk), models from 20/02/04 – 31/05/06. Now that sounds pretty serious and should be fixed but many recall notices, including some of these, will be disregarded or never find their way to a current driver as a result of changed addresses etc. If you buy used cars there is the risk that the previous owner received the recall but did nothing about it and you could be quite innocently driving a death trap with you and your family on board. It’s a bit of a disgrace but fear not, your safety conscious friend (that’s me) has found a central resource that you should check to see if your car, or the cars of family members, is subject to a recall. You can find out by clicking on the following link: http://www.vosa.gov.uk/vosa/apps/recalls/default.asp , enter your car details and any recalls will be listed. If you are still unsure you can always call into your local main dealer and get him to check his computer system which you should do if you have seen a recall on this site to see if the fault had been rectified on your car. By Graham Hill