Safety

More than 100,000 Tritons pose a fire risk!

By Justin Hilliard · 13 Mar 2020

Mitsubishi Australia has been forced to recall 102,616 MQ- and MR-series Triton utes over a fire risk

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Baby car seat installation - how to install a car seat correctly

By Nedahl Stelio · 11 Mar 2020

Installing child car seats used to be worse than building an IKEA cupboard from scratch, but with the introduction of ISOFIX child seats, much of the mystery has been solved. You also get a much more secure baby seat which doesn’t wobble in your car, which brings valuable peace of mind for any parent. It’s

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Mercedes in hot water with the ACCC

By Justin Hilliard · 25 Feb 2020

Mercedes-Benz Australia and the Australian Competition and Consumer Competition (ACCC) have agreed to a court-enforceable undertaking after the former “failed” to initiate some of its compulsory Takata airbags recalls on time

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Five stars for Mazda CX-30

By Tung Nguyen · 31 Jan 2020

The Australasian New Car Assessment Program (ANCAP) has confirmed the Mazda CX-30's five-star Euro NCAP crash safety rating will carry over to the local model.As previously reported in November last year, the CX-30 notched a near-perfect 99 per cent in th

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Subaru recalls Impreza and XV over seatbelts

By Justin Hilliard · 29 Jan 2020

Subaru Australia has been forced to recall 721 examples of the Impreza small car and XV small SUV over a potential issue with their seatbelts

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Tesla strongly denies big safety claim

By Justin Hilliard · 21 Jan 2020

Tesla has slammed a petition currently in front of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the largest automotive safety body in the United States, which could lead to a recall of more than 500,000 electric vehicles (EVs) due to alleged “sudden unintended acceleration” issues

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Honda to buy back old Accords and CR-Vs

By Justin Hilliard · 20 Jan 2020

Honda Australia has offered to buy back 33,289 older Accord and Legend cars, and CR-V SUVs, all of which could be fitted with potentially deadly airbags. As such, their owners have been told to “stop driving immediately”

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Mitsubishi issues urgent airbag recall

By Justin Hilliard · 17 Jan 2020

Mitsubishi Australia has asked owners of 8081 older Mirage and Lancer cars, Pajero SUVs, Express vans and Starwagon people movers that could be fitted with potentially deadly airbags to “stop driving immediately”, going as far as offering to buy them back

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Toyota, Mazda, Suzuki to buy back 18,000 cars

By Andrew Chesterton · 10 Jan 2020

The massive Takata airbag recall shows no signs of slowing down, with Toyota, Mazda and Suzuki recalling 18,000 vehicles fitted with Takata NADI 5-AT airbags.

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More than 14,000 Mazda3 cars recalled

By Justin Hilliard · 09 Jan 2020

Mazda Australia has been forced to recall 13,768 examples of the new-generation Mazda3 small car over a potential issue with its autonomous emergency braking (AEB) system.Affecting MY19 hatches and sedans sold between March 26 and December 24 la

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