Great Wall’s recalled in Australia
Greatwall Motors are recalling the X240 SUV (aka, the Hover) in the Australian market due to an issue with the steering column rubbing on a hydraulic cable, causing it to split over time. Great Wall Motors are working with Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission to recall 922 2010 models of the SUV.
The models affected can be repaired in less than 40 minutes according to Ateco Automotive, the company responsible for importing the brand into the Australian market.
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Forty minutes or four hours, 900 or 90,000 units, a recall in a foreign land is serious business. Welcome to the club, Great Wall.
We presume it was caught before injuries resulted. Quality and safety checks on exported, and transplant vehicles, need to take the potential high cost of recalls into consideration.
At home in China, domestic manufacturers have so far been spared any large scale recalls.
@ dragin
Or Great Wall could pull out of Aussie market like Brilliance did from German market, to escape from financial obligations.
It’s really really hard to avoid recalls, with all the Chinese suppliers trying to cheat their OEMs, leaving OEMs to pick up the bill for recall. Or the OEM could cheat its dealers by fleeing Aussie market too.
This recall follows one in November 2008, that was also Hover steering component-related.
Mr. IHC, it seems you are most interested in the bugs with non-Korean cars. What’s up with the Toyota’s run-away fiasco in the US? Are Toyota selling less cars then? How about the sales number of Hyundai recently? I see not too many Korean cars in HK market while VW models are seen everywhere. Can you give me some insight over this issue?
@ hk
> What’s up with the Toyota’s run-away fiasco in the US?
Toyota cut cost too deeply. Their accelerator pedal has only single sensor, while all other makers have two or three sensors. So when that lone sensor fail, pray to God.
> Are Toyota selling less cars then?
Yes, Toyota(Toyota+Lexus) has been bumped by Hyundai-Kia in monthly sales in May 2011. In the US, “Big Three” now means GM, Ford, and Hyundai-Kia. The negative side of this sales boom in the US and China is that Hyundai is running out of production capacity, with Hyundai/Kia’s US plants running at 120% capacity to fill demand, and same story in China too.
http://www.autoblog.com/2011/05/31/hyundai-kia-will-likely-top-toyota-lexus-for-no-3-sales-spot-in/