Word: nhtsa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...argument goes now to the Government's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, which was surprised to get the Consumers Union findings; it had received no previous complaints about the Omni-Horizon. Deputy Administrator Howard Dugoff says NHTSA "cannot yet explain" how Consumers Union and Chrysler got such diametrically opposed results on the critical second test. Determining whether the first let-go-of-the-wheel test has any real relation to the auto's performance, says Dugoff, "will be tough-we will have to do some rather extensive analysis." Should Omni-Horizon fail NHTSA tests, the agency could order...
...they are attempting to force the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration -ironically, an agency created in response to Nader's prodding-to release used-car safety standards that by law should have been issued two years ago. The suit even asks the courts to make former NHTSA Administrator Douglas Toms repay part of the salary he received during the delay...
...that logic Chevrolet dealers may not mind a special consumer-protection bulletin that Toms issued last week. Well armed with evidence (500 documented case histories plus daily complaints from Chevy owners), the NHTSA warned that the engine mounts can give way on Chevies that were built in the model years 1965 through 1969-a total of about 5.6 million cars. The mounts consist of a layer of rubber bonded between two metal plates. When a mount gives, the engine can twist from its moorings while the car is moving. When this happens, it is possible that the gear shift will...