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Safety Group Wants Recall Records Kept 20 Years
The nonprofit Center for Auto Safety advocacy group wants carmakers to retain records about their safety defects for at least 20 years—four times the period currently required.
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The nonprofit Center for Auto Safety advocacy group wants carmakers to retain records about their safety defects for at least 20 years—four times the period currently required.
The group has petitioned the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to order the policy change.
NHTSA is pondering a move to double the retention period to 10 years. But the Washington, D.C.-based center points out that 44% of the 43 probes currently under way by the agency’s Office of Defects Investigation involve vehicles or components that were made more than a decade ago.
The center contends that failing to adequately extend the retention period would give carmakers an incentive to “run out the clock” on reporting defects discovered in older models.
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