On January 27, SAIC-GM-Wuling Motors filed a recall plan with the State Administration for Market Regulations in accordance with the requirements of the Regulations on the Administration of Recall of Defective Automobile Products and the Implementation Measures for the Administration of the Recall of Defective Automobile Products.
First of all, after the State Administration for Market Supervision and Administration launched the defect investigation, SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co., Ltd. decided to take recall measures to eliminate potential safety hazards, and it was not the car companies themselves who found problems and took the initiative to initiate the recall.
Secondly, the recall of vehicles has a long cycle, recalling some of the Wuling Hongguang S3 and new Wuling Hongguang S cars produced between July 10, 2017 and March 26, 2021, the overall calculation is as long as 3 and a half years, the problem has long existed, and the car company is a bit irresponsible.
Third, the recall exceeded 600,000 vehicles, reaching 609779 vehicles, creating the highest number of recalls by car companies in the New Year.
Fourth, the safety hazards of the vehicle: the manual transmission parts manufacturing size is overshoot, resulting in insufficient gear retention force, and under specific working conditions, it may cause 6-gear occasional dissupposition, causing the vehicle to temporarily interrupt the power transmission, and there may be safety hazards in extreme cases.
Fifth, the handling method of SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile, free replacement of transmission maintenance components after recall, to eliminate safety hazards.
As a large sales seller and a large recaller, as well as a large recaller, just in July 2021, Wuling Automobile also carried out a recall of nearly 1.44 million vehicles, but the reason for the recall was the potential safety hazard of engine damage. In less than a year, Wuling Motors has recalled 1.44 million vehicles plus 600,000 vehicles totaling more than 2 million vehicles, and Wuling Motors users are really "either on the road to repair the car or on the way to the recall".
Looking at the sales volume of Wuling Motors, according to the sales volume released by the Association of Automobiles, the cumulative sales of SAIC-GM-Wuling Motors in 2021 are 966932 vehicles, an increase of 4.8% over the cumulative sales of 818189 vehicles in 2020, and through the sales data of Wuling Motors in the past two years, it can be seen that Wuling Motors will sell nearly one million vehicles in 2021, mainly for MPV and SUV models with higher cost performance.
Wuling Automobile has two consecutive times are three major pieces of safety hazards, last year is the engine, this year is the gearbox, but also really let the user unconscious, in the face of such a serious large-scale vehicle problem, you will still choose to buy a super cost-effective SAIC-GM-Wuling car?