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#41 ·
Tripod said:
Called my local studio today, to set an appointment for this recall. I was told that "All studios in the state of Florida are way behind in receiving the recalled items - for customer consumption - as the first priority is to the vehicles on the lot / sales floor. Call back in a month."

In other words, SALES take priority over CUSTOMER SAFETY.

Thanks, Fiat ... that's good to know.
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This was a studio decision not Fiat's.

This may depend on state law my sales consultant and service manager told me that half of each shipment received have go to customers and half can be used for inventory. They got 6 in did 3 customer cars, 1 on inventory so they do test drives, and held the other two for pending sales that once closed they installed the air bag. They are still waiting on the rest no ETA. Personally I am not in a hurry since both my wife and I always use our seat belts. I have a pending recall on our 2013 Ford Fusion that is also waiting for parts.
 
#42 ·
woodyracing said:
First of all, that's your dealer making that decision NOT Fiat. Second, it's not really a safety issue for anyone. The airbag might twist when it deploys if you're in a 5% group of women NOT WEARING YOUR SEATBELT. If safety is something you're worried about, wear your seatbelt and it's not an issue....

Fiat doesn't designate what the dealers do with the airbags, our studio is pretty much splitting them between customers and inventory but we only get about 7 in a week and I don't think we got any last week. Either way, CHILL OUT. This is not a safety issue that anyone needs to be freaking out about!
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I am just going to schedule mine with my next oil change, it is really strange that this recall has gotten the amount of press it has considering what is going on with the GM recall where people have died.
 
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woodyracing said:
First of all, that's your dealer making that decision NOT Fiat. Second, it's not really a safety issue for anyone. The airbag might twist when it deploys if you're in a 5% group of women NOT WEARING YOUR SEATBELT. If safety is something you're worried about, wear your seatbelt and it's not an issue....

Fiat doesn't designate what the dealers do with the airbags, our studio is pretty much splitting them between customers and inventory but we only get about 7 in a week and I don't think we got any last week. Either way, CHILL OUT. This is not a safety issue that anyone needs to be freaking out about!
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I respectfully disagree with you; a Recall *IS* a safety issue. Hence, the manufacturer's decision to proactively bear the expense of a volume call-back ... versus possible lawsuits after the fact.
 
#46 ·
Tripod said:
I respectfully disagree with you; a Recall *IS* a safety issue. Hence, the manufacturer's decision to proactively bear the expense of a volume call-back ... versus possible lawsuits after the fact.
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Sure, it's technically a safety issue because the airbag may not inflate properly. But the little caveat that you have to be not wearing your seatbelt for that to be an issue, makes it realistically not that big of a deal. My mom has a Trekking, we're going to put an airbag in hers when she gets her oil changed in a couple months. If I thought it was a actual, real safety issue that she would have to worry about (it's not because she wears her seatbelt), I would take the airbag to her and install it myself. However, it's just not that big of a deal. To me, if you have a crash without your seatbelt on, the knee airbag not deploying properly is the least of your worries...
 
#47 ·
Tripod said:
I respectfully disagree with you; a Recall *IS* a safety issue. Hence, the manufacturer's decision to proactively bear the expense of a volume call-back ... versus possible lawsuits after the fact.
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Since you need NOT wear you seat belt in order for their to be an problem, I would tend to agree it's less of issue then the airbag throwing metal fragments when they deploy which is the problem airbags made by Takata.
 
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BiBi said:
I gather that both vehicules give you no problems?
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Thanks for asking. I purchased them 7 days apart, in June 2014. One has 5.5k miles and the other only 4k. Thus far, no major issues have occurred nor were any expected. Some minor oddities with things such as the uConnect maps .. but I don't blame that entirely on Fiat. I am closely monitoring MPG and awaiting the averages to rise and persist, as I've discussed within this same forum.

We LOVE our new Fiats and hope they last for many years.
 
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