RE: Bee in their bonnets
Discussion
Below is the wording of my petition. I suffered bonnet catch failure while travelling at 65mph on the motorway. I am pursuing Renault through the courts but the other element to this is VOSA who are responsible for policing car safety. I thought that people affected by bonnet catch failure may have been interested in the petition.
VOSA is the government body responsible for UK vehicle safety. Under the General Product Safety Regulations it has the power to instruct recalls, withdraw vehicles from sale and insist on additional notices warning consumers of any safety issues once they have been identified.
Recent high profile cases such as the Renault Clio bonnet catch failure and the multitudinous Renault 1.9dCi turbo failures have shown that the vehicle safety branch of VOSA does not appear to be using its powers fully.
It would seem that many of VOSA’s investigations are carried out in conjunction with vehicle manufacturers and not independently. VOSA freely admits that it does not have the required expertise to do this work on its own.
This is not common practice with any other enforcement agency authorised under the Regulations and this failing must be seen as not being in the Public interest. As such I propose that an independent committee of MPs is set up to look into VOSA’s activities.
VOSA is the government body responsible for UK vehicle safety. Under the General Product Safety Regulations it has the power to instruct recalls, withdraw vehicles from sale and insist on additional notices warning consumers of any safety issues once they have been identified.
Recent high profile cases such as the Renault Clio bonnet catch failure and the multitudinous Renault 1.9dCi turbo failures have shown that the vehicle safety branch of VOSA does not appear to be using its powers fully.
It would seem that many of VOSA’s investigations are carried out in conjunction with vehicle manufacturers and not independently. VOSA freely admits that it does not have the required expertise to do this work on its own.
This is not common practice with any other enforcement agency authorised under the Regulations and this failing must be seen as not being in the Public interest. As such I propose that an independent committee of MPs is set up to look into VOSA’s activities.
Edited by meesh on Sunday 7th October 23:57
Just read some of the previous posts would like to add that until October 2006 the bonnet catch was not a serviceable part. In October VOSA insisted on Renault writing out to all the garages to put it on the service schedule. My problem is why not also get them to write out to all owners at the same time! Instead it took VOSA a further 5 months to ask Renault to contact owners, a year after the discovery that the manual had no instructions as to maintanaince.
Edited by meesh on Sunday 7th October 23:58
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