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About 1.3 million Mercedes recalled

Carmaker concerned about voltage regulators, battery control, brake systems.
March 31, 2005: 9:21 AM EST

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - U.S.-German carmaker DaimlerChrysler is recalling 1.3 million Mercedes cars as it tries to fix quality woes that are riddling its German luxury car division, it said Thursday.

Mercedes will recall the cars in several model ranges worldwide to fix problems with alternators and batteries, which do not affect the cars' safety, according to the supplier, car-parts maker Robert Bosch.

Mercedes chief Eckhard Cordes, who said earlier this year that his drive to resolve the quality problems would hit this year's earnings, said the cars Mercedes makes now are of high quality and that the recall addressed legacy problems.



http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/31/Aut...dex.htm?cnn=yes

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Notice they didn't say what year models would be affected... Sneaky.

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"Notice they didn't say what year models would be affected... Sneaky."


Perhaps it was an early report, before all of the data came out.

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Perhaps it was an early report, before all of the data came out. "

Perhaps. Another option is that Mercedes knows its current quality image can't afford anymore negative publicity, with sales and profits where they are currently, so they're only notifying owners, and conveniently not telling the general public the year models they're recalling. If they're recent, it wouldn't look good at all.

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" Perhaps. Another option is that Mercedes knows its current quality image can't afford anymore negative publicity, with sales and profits where they are currently, so they're only notifying owners, and conveniently not telling the general public the year models they're recalling. If they're recent, it wouldn't look good at all."
Yes, but by not saying the models or model years they risk having customers thinking that they are recent when they could be relatively older models.

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"Yes, but by not saying the models or model years they risk having customers thinking that they are recent when they could be relatively older models."

True. It would have been easier for them to have just came out and said which vehicles were affected.

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