Fiat Chrysler has called back in the workshops of 1.1 million vehicles. There is increased risk of a defect in the parking function, said the automaker. Affected models Dodge Charger and Chrysler 300 Sedan Year 2012-2014 and SUV type Jeep Grand Cherokee from 2014 and 2015.
According to Fiat Chrysler turns on automatic vehicles in the Park function of engine not reliably when the driver gets out. This could simply roll off the car after parking. According to the Group in connection with the malfunction may be available 41 injuries. The US authorities had launched an investigation in February after reports of such incidents.
From the recall in particular North American Fiat-Chrysler drivers are affected. In the US alone have 811,586 cars in the workshops, 52 144 more in Canada. Outside of North America are affected 248,667 cars. Back in September last year had Fiat Chrysler in North America about 1.7 million vehicles because of problems with the steering wheel and air bag recall.
Also in the exhaust affair Fiat is reportedly of Süddeutsche Zeitung , WDR and NDR under suspicion. The inquiry commission of the Federal Ministry of Transport to investigate the Diesel affair and the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) go to the question whether the group might have used technology to avoid the time-consuming removal of pollutants. In some Fiat models the suspicion exists that the measures to reduce emissions by a certain time to be reduced automatically. should be affected only models of Fiat, not Chrysler.
The reference to that procedure should have come from the German automotive supplier Bosch. A spokesman for Fiat Chrysler did not want to comment on that. Bosch had also provided a portion of the manipulated Volkswagen diesel vehicles with software for emission control. With this technique it was possible to detect whether a car is put to the test or on the road.
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