Vehicle Defects

The disappointment that comes with spending your hard-earned money on a car only to learn that it is a lemon cannot be overstated. After finding your ideal car, the last thing you want is to find out that your effort has gone to waste. As with your other possessions,...

If your car is a lemon, the financial impact can be substantial. For one thing, you may have just purchased this vehicle and made a major investment. It may have cost tens of thousands of dollars, and you feel that you have been scammed out of that money because the...

Self-driving cars will make human-driven cars the thing of the past – or at least that’s what many manufacturers want people to believe. Automated vehicles aim to make driving easier and safer for the driver. Many years of studies and tests may give self-driving cars...

While exploding seat belts might sound like something out of a James Bond movie, the reality is much more mundane but far more worrying. Korean manufacturer Hyundai has just recalled almost 239,000 cars in the U.S. alone due to concerns over them. Three incidents have...

When you are making an expensive financial undertaking like a home purchase, you would not dream of committing your finances before getting the home inspected and approved. The same is true when you are buying a used car.  A car purchase is a major undertaking. As...

Over the years, passenger safety has been one of the main focuses for auto manufacturers. This has led to the development of unibody construction, which is used on modern cars and trucks. The benefit of unibody construction is that they can engineer the frame to...

Defective components and design issues can affect how safe a specific vehicle model is. Although a lot of testing usually goes into a vehicle model before it reaches the stage of mass production and distribution, vehicles do go on the market with design issues that...