Seems like this is the season of recalls. After the huge fiasco in international markets over Honda and Toyota's recalling of its highest selling cars Accord, Prius and now latest being Corolla; Maruti - the largest Indian car manufacturer has recalled its flagship export brand A-star due to a fault in fuel pump.
Maruti is recalling around 1,00,000 cars from the Indian market to recitify the glitch. When contacted, the company said in a statement, "The fault was present in the cars manufactured till August 22, 2009. We realised the fault by November and immediately began contacting the customers."
Describing the fault, the statement said: "When the fuel is filled up to brim, beyond fuel auto cut off position, a possible fuel leakage from fuel pump mounting area may take place."
However, as a proactive step, the company decided to check all vehicles from the lot, around 1 lakh units including those exported overseas. It said that the company would be changing the fuel pump gasket and O ring at no cost to customer.
Barely a month back, Honda had decided to recall 8532 'City' sedans manufactured in 2007 from India for a part replacement of power window switches that had the potential to catch fire.
With Maruti Suzuki's recall, whether a dent will be cast on the image of Japan as a manufacturer of high end safety cars is to be seen. Surely, all is 'not' well in Japanese camps.
