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Originally Posted by jsimon7777
I don't think it's that great a chance. Note every dealer is incompetent. Most are smart enough to see a major repair and put the right people on the rob. My service adviser said they put the guy who builds engines all day every day for a hobby on the job. They'd done 14 of them by the time I got my car back, and only one had come back with a serious issue, a transmission misalignment that was easily fixed. I'm only 2500 miles or so in, but I've been driving it like I stole it. No issues other than the broken aftermarket header, and that header had been welded like five times before, so it wasn't the dealer's fault. It's just not a panic issue. Avoid it if you want, sure. But trade in and buy another one? Meh.
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I haven't kept track recently but the last I looked there were about 70 recall related failures. Let's take it to 100 to be up to date. Although even 1 failure is not acceptable the numbers are not as bad as they appear. We KNOW of about 1/2 a % of the cars had a post recall figure. Of those more were fixed by the dealer since they took responsibility than were denied. There are maybe 20 denied repairs on record here but they keep posting and posting so it looks way worse.
All that said the failure rate for the actual recall issue is several decimal points away from 1% so unless forced why would anybody ever want to risk it? I know I would not have been getting it done even before we saw the repair failures start to pop up. Recalls have no deadline so if my springs broke 5 years from now I would have just taken it in and said "fix it please".