May 22, 2015 Airbags, Recalls, Aftermarket
According to Bloomberg Business, in the US: "Hundreds of thousands of car owners who yesterday were urged to check a government website and see if their air bags are safe have overwhelmed the site and U.S. regulators say it might take several days before the database is fully accessible.
Even for some of the people who were able to get through, complete vehicle-identification number information related to the recall of a record 34 million cars wasn’t available, and won’t be for several days, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Traffic on the website as of 4 p.m. Wednesday was 62 times a normal day, the Washington-based agency said.
“We’re working with the automakers to provide that information as quickly as possible,” a NHTSA spokesman, Gordon Trowbridge, said in an e-mail. He urged people to be patient."
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