Government Report Slams Vauxhall For Handling Of Zafira Fire Issue

The UK's Transport Select Committee has said Vauxhall showed "a reckless disregard for safety" with the amount of time it took to take action on a fire issue related to the Zafira B
Government Report Slams Vauxhall For Handling Of Zafira Fire Issue

Not so long ago, Vauxhall unwittingly gave a perfect lesson in how not to deal with a recall.
First - when reports of its Zafira ‘B’ catching fire began appearing at such a rate that there was a dedicated Facebook group for the issue - the company did nothing. Then, it blamed third party repairs of the heating system’s thermal fuse.
Vauxhall finally issued a recall in December 2015, only for more fires to break out on supposedly rectified cars. A second recall soon followed, with more intensive work carried out on the 234,938 cars affected - all of which had either manual air conditioning or no air conditioning fitted.
Naturally, the UK government has taken a dim view of the debacle, with the Transport Select Committee issuing an extensive report which doesn’t paint Vauxhall in the best light. It accuses the company of acting much too slowly and putting drivers at risk in the process. It said:

“We are disappointed at the pace of Vauxhall’s response to the fires in successfully recalled vehicles. Vauxhall’s decision to continue to let people drive affected cars amounts to a reckless disregard for safety.”

Ouch.

Government Report Slams Vauxhall For Handling Of Zafira Fire Issue

The report also concludes that the DVSA (Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency) should have intervened faster, and that it needs more tools in its armoury to combat manufacturer skulduggery.

“The poor behaviour of Vauxhall clearly shows that the Department for Transport cannot rely on all manufacturers doing the right thing voluntarily,” the report says, recommending than the DVSA is given powers to force manufacturers to comply with its commands, or face prosecution.

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The_Import_Kid

Just don’t sell cars with someone’s mixtape in them and you’re good.

04/28/2017 - 16:16 |
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Ewan23 (The Scottish guy)

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Haha thanks for the tag

04/28/2017 - 18:17 |
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Anonymous

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How do you tag others?

04/29/2017 - 02:56 |
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Anonymous

Since when do Ferrari make people carriers?

04/28/2017 - 16:17 |
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Garrick Chong

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  • Since when did Samsung start making MPVs?
04/29/2017 - 07:40 |
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Anonymous

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Zafiras catch fire.Guess you can call it a ZAFIREA

04/29/2017 - 12:56 |
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DL🏁

oh seems like UK’s Transport Select Committee just found out that Vauxhall is now owned by the French

04/28/2017 - 18:09 |
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Stay tuned for part two of “Hundred Years’ War”.

04/28/2017 - 18:39 |
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Anonymous

Well at least you could say to your friend that you have a “hot” vauxhall

04/28/2017 - 18:18 |
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Ewan23 (The Scottish guy)

Yeah this was a complete shambles, our 2010 zafira got recalled 3 times and still the cars were catching fire (not ours) it got to the point that we sold it and now have a 2016 Vauxhall Zafira tourer and I’m happy to say, no fires lol but seriously this was so stupid

04/28/2017 - 18:20 |
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We have a Zafira too. We can’t buy something new atm. We haven’t had any recalls done to it yet…

04/28/2017 - 19:57 |
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Anonymous

Peugeot Quality

04/28/2017 - 18:41 |
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Cameron Holmes 1

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Peugeot didn’t own this company then GM actually did.

04/29/2017 - 14:57 |
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HCR Writing Space

Now it’s given to the PSA which is french. How much worse that could it be?

04/29/2017 - 00:48 |
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Josh A.
04/29/2017 - 04:04 |
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Anonymous

It’s doing their owners a favour though, once the fire is done they no longer own a Zafira.

04/29/2017 - 06:11 |
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