In a 1,000+ word article, the AP reports that currently, dealers and individual sellers are not legally required to get repairs done on a recalled car before the vehicle is sold. Sellers are not even obligated to notify buyers that a vehicle is subject to a recall. Later, the AP says that several attempts to pass legislation that requires dealers to fix recalled vehicles or “disclose problems have stalled under opposition from carmakers, auto dealers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.” However, it adds that NHTSA Administrator Mark Rosekind and Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx are “making another push.” Rosekind is quoted as saying, “We cannot allow vehicles with potentially dangerous defects to leave used-car lots without the necessary repairs.”
From the news release of the American Association for Justice.
