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Cars, as bulk consumables for daily use, involve almost everyone's travel. Every year, complaints about cars continue to emerge, some manufacturers choose to recall, and some manufacturers ignore them. The annual "315 Party" has less than a month to go, as the "315 Evening" resident guest of the car manufacturers, whether exposed or not, should pay attention to the problem of their own products, rather than just not to board the "315 Evening".
Today, let's look at the Wuling Hongguang S series models that have been out of the same door as the Baojun 560 Division that has boarded the "315 Evening Party".
As a generation of divine vehicles, Wuling Hongguang once could be described as "on the knife mountain" and "under the sea of fire", and there are still various famous scenes circulating on the Internet, but just some time ago, Wuling launched a recall again.
On January 27 this year, the State Administration for Market Regulation issued an announcement showing that SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co., Ltd. filed a recall plan with the State Administration for Market Regulation as required.
The scope of the recall is the total number of Wuling Hongguang S3 and new Wuling Hongguang S vehicles produced between July 10, 2017 and March 26, 2021, with a total of 609779 units, effective from March 10, 2022.
The recalled car factory spans 4 years, and the number of recalls is large, which belongs to the domestic independent brand with the largest number of recalls. Of all the vehicles announced in January this year, domestic brands accounted for half of the country, of which Wuling accounted for 80%.
The reason for this recall is that the manual transmission parts of some vehicles are manufactured oversized, resulting in insufficient gear retention, which may cause occasional disequision in 6 gears under specific working conditions, resulting in temporary power transmission interruptions in vehicles, and there may be safety hazards in extreme cases.
The official guidance price of the 2019 and 2020 Wuling Hongguang S3 is 598-82,800, as a cost-effective model, the Wuling Hongguang S series has been loved by consumers in third- and fourth-tier cities in China, all equipped with 6-speed manual transmissions.
Off-gear is not a trivial matter, manual off-gear refers to the car in the process of driving from a certain gear to return to the neutral gear, easy to occur when rapid acceleration and sudden deceleration. Off-gear driving can easily cause stalls and cause safety accidents. It is also easy to cause insufficient engine power output, resulting in setbacks, vicious circles, and damage to the gearbox.
SAIC-GM-Wuling is not the first time to recall the transmission problem, the last time in 2021 recalled part of the 2017 Baojun 560 DCT a total of 19,680 vehicles, because the transmission clutch shock absorber slider is not strong enough, may fragment, but also will cause extreme cases to cause power interruption, the consequences are equally serious.
The handling method of this recall is that Wuling will conduct free inspections of vehicles within the scope of the recall, and replace transmission maintenance components free of charge for vehicles that are confirmed to be defective after inspection. When the above situation occurs in the use of the vehicle, the owner can re-hang back to the 6th gear or other gears to continue driving, and contact the processing in time.
In a well-known third-party platform, it can be seen that the complaint about the Wuling Hongguang S3 transmission can be traced back to 18 years, and the transmission off gears have been mentioned many times since 19 years, and finally began to recall after four years, and Wuling finally began to act this time.
China as the world's largest automobile market, the situation of recall is not terrible, and now with the rapid spread of Internet information, the information of recalling cars has appeared in front of everyone's eyes, which also shows that the barriers for ordinary netizens to understand data are gradually disappearing, and the data is becoming more and more transparent. In this context, Wuling Hongguang S3, the new Wuling Hongguang S series owners began to have more voices, and finally ushered in a recall.
The number of recalls also proves the high sales volume of the Wuling Hongguang S series, although the price of the above models is not high, but it does not mean that it can be relaxed in the safety of the quality of the vehicle, I hope that Wuling will not continue to hurt the national independent brand feelings.