Friday, April 22, 2016

Fiat Chrysler gets 1.1 million cars back – tagesschau.de

vehicles that can leaderless start to move after parking: Because of this danger Fiat Chrysler has launched a recall. Worldwide have more than 1.1 million cars in the garages. 41 people were already injured in connection with the defect.

The automaker Fiat Chrysler ordered because of security risks associated with the automatic transmission worldwide 1.1 million vehicles in the workshops. Affected are claimed by the company Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 sedans of model years 2012 to 2014, with the Jeep Grand Cherokee SUV from 2014, 2015.

In the automatic vehicles will not turn into the parking function of engine when the driver get out. This would allow the car simply roll away after parking, the Italian-American company said.

It has come to 121 accidents. A total of 41 people were injured, Fiat said. In all cases, the driver had mistakenly believed to have put the gear lever into park. The US traffic supervisory NHTSA said it had already been 314 complaints. Affected by the recall are more than 800,000 cars in the US and approximately 250,000 outside North America.

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