CARFAX<\/a> shows more than 2.5 million vehicles tagged with \u201cDo Not Drive\u201d or \u201cPark Outside\u201d safety recalls remain unrepaired as of May 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\u201cDo Not Drive\u201d and \u201cPark Outside\u201d notifications are recalls issued by automakers and federal safety officials. A \u201cDo Not Drive\u201d recall advises drivers not to operate their vehicles because a serious safety issue could lead to an accident or physical harm. A \u201cPark Outside\u201d recall is issued for vehicles with a high risk of causing a fire, and owners are advised to park these vehicles outside of garages and parking structures, and away from buildings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s heart-breaking. On average 20 to 25 percent of these vehicles are not getting fixed and the need is so urgent,\u201d said Patrick Olsen, Editor in Chief at CARFAX. \u201cCARFAX is working to raise awareness and trying to bring those numbers down.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
CARFAX studied five years of recalls and painstakingly searching through individual registrations and safety inspection reports to see if consumers had the repairs made to the vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe were startled by the numbers we found,\u201d Olsen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Olsen suggested a variety of factors could have impacted the lack of repairs, including the notifications being required to be sent through first-class mail, or consumers dismissing the notices as scams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s also a significant portion of people that don\u2019t have the time or the ability to give up their vehicles for a period of time. It\u2019s how they get to work and is part of their livelihood,\u201d Olsen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Under the two orders, the National Highway Traffic Safety Authority (NHTSA) states repairs are free and the dealership and manufacturer will tow the vehicle for free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the CARFAX study, six states had more than 100,000 unrepaired vehicles, with California leading the way (245,000). The other state with more than 100,000 recall vehicles still on the road were Texas (242,000), Florida (237,000), New York (118,000), Pennsylvania (106,000) and Ohio (101,000).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In November, the NHTSA reported a person being killed by an airbag rupture in a Ford Ranger under a \u201cDo Not Drive\u201d warning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThese are real concerns and could unfortunately have real consequences if they are not worked out,\u201d Olsen said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Consumers can check for free to see if their car has any open recall at Carfax.com\/recall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early in May, BMW joined Ford, Honda and Fiat Chrysler, issuing a \u201cDo Not Drive\u201d warning for 90,000…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[28,3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3827","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-independent","8":"category-industry","9":"cs-entry","10":"cs-video-wrap"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/niada.com\/dashboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}