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OPEL IRELAND IS conducting a second recall of its Zafira models over an issue that could lead to the vehicle catching fire.
It’s part of a Europe-wide recall over what the car company said was the potential for improper repairs on the car’s blower motor resistor.
In Cork last October, dramatic footage was captured of a Zafira bursting into flames.
Opel Ireland says that since then they’ve been conducting a product recall to replace the resistor in about 8,000 vehicles. Blower motors and pollen filters were also inspected as part of the recall.
Now, the manufacturer is to initiate a second recall and this time they will be replacing the blower motors. A new fuse resistor and moulding will also to be installed in the vehicles.
“While the current action achieves the objective of returning vehicles to their original condition, after extensive investigations we have decided to go further and improve the overall robustness of the system,” the company said explaining its decision.
The recall relates to Opel Zafira B models with the company saying that they will be writing to customers on a staggered basis to invite them in for the second recall.
The recall comes on the back of reports of a emissions irregularities from Opel vehicles.
According to both the German weekly magazine Der Spiegel and the investigative news programme Monitor on ARD public television, tests on a number of Opel’s diesel models had uncovered “hitherto unknown devices” that deactivate filtration systems in the engines of two of the best-selling models, Astra and Zafira.
That meant that the models’ emissions systematically exceeded norms.
- With reporting from © – AFP 2016
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Can I have my money back now
It’s like’…..burning your furniture – to keep warm!
Why are PwC saying this instead of IBRC and NAMA?
As property prices start to rise nama , ibrc start to dump property
Can someone explain why?
Dumping loans philip, not property. They’re Dumping the loans as they’re non-performing and want to get them off the balance sheet.
If they had the patience, they’d put arrangements in place to allow the properties to return to positive equity and then seek a sale, this recouping more of the tax payers money.
Unfortunately, they’ll sell the loans for a discount and allow the new purchasers to do this and net a tidy profit.
The article outlines that IBRC (IBROKE would probably be a better name) will offload € 15 billion in loans.
Yet the linked article tells us that IBROKE have already offloaded 90% of its loanbook, € 19.8 billion out of € 21.7 billion leaving just € 1.9 billion on hand.
This can only mean, if the previous article is correct, that it is NAMA that is offloading the majority of the loans.
Why the subterfuge?
Why make people think that this is some kind of joint enterprise when it is NAMA that is leading the charge?
Have the shiny suit brigade from the canal something to hide?
Given their obsession with secrecy it would not surprise me if they have, perhaps selling the loans to some preferred customer with an inside track at a serious discount.
The way things go it will all be wrapped up before we know anything, plus ça change.
Who in their right mind would buy this junk?
It might only be worth 30% of face value but if you buy it for 20% it’s a good deal. For the buyer anyway.
@ Irish Revolution
The Banks?
Hedge funds bought it. They will now sell off all the ghost estates etc at a lower price so people that have houses for sale at the min will eventually have to sell for half or take them off the market.
Fab house here in drogheda asking price €325. Hilarious. You could now nearly get a house for that on raglan road or ailsbury road!! So that house is realistically worth less than €150 really.
People and notions ha
What about Bank of Scotland selling on my mortgage & others in their Irish portfolio to a company called Tanager Ltd.
I’m in a tizzy all day because I don’t know what it means for us.
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