Citroen Saftey Recall - Stop Driving your Vehicle Immediatel

[tony wright]

Wife received an urgent saftey recall letter on the 11th jun for her 2015 Citroen C3, it’s to do with the Takata Airbag. Rang the local Citroen dealer who were aware of the issue, but the earliest I could get her car booked in is the 16th Sep, obviously not that urgent. Today, she received a second urgent letter, but this time it has the main topic highlighted in red saying to Stop driving, then further down the letter it states to stop driving immediately.

Going to ring the garage tomorrow to see if they can bring the date forward, but I now have a worried wife scared to use her car. How can they expect someone to lay their car up for over two months. Would it be wrong of me to ask for a replacement car as she needs her car to get back and forward to work, but presently scared to drive it? Obviously I’m sick of telling her she’s owned the car since new and nothing has ever happened so why would it now, but it hasn’t made a lot of difference.

[davek_964]

tony wright said:

Obviously I m sick of telling her she s owned the car since new and nothing has ever happened so why would it now, but it hasn t made a lot of difference.

No offence but that's a fairly dumb argument. The recall isn't because some catastrophic failure happened as the car was driven away from new. It is because - at some random time - there is a potential catastrophic failure.

Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't

[paul_c123]

Citroen was such a nice brand. They have self-destructed. Let's hope DS go down with them too.

[Simpo Two]

davek_964 said:

Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it won't

Equally just because it has happened doesn't mean it will. The manufacturers are just screaming at you to avoid litigation if it goes pop. As in 'You didn't warn us so I want £1M'.

[Sheepshanks]

Thread here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[tony wright]

Thanks, reading the attached post now, not good☹️

[Stiggolas]

I believe if you read the letter that Citroen will pay up to £22 per day for travel expenses until the airbag is fixed as long as it's booked in. You can hire a cheap car for that.

[jeremyc]

Sheepshanks said:

Thread here: https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

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