Motor Vehicle Safety: NHTSA’s Ability to Detect and Recall Defective Replacement Crash Parts Is Limited
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Motor Vehicle Safety: NHTSA’s Ability to Detect and Recall Defective Replacement Crash Parts Is Limited

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    United States. Government Accountability Office
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    GAO-01-225
  • Resource Type:
    Research Paper
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. General Accounting Office
  • Abstract:
    The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the federal agency responsible for reducing accidents, deaths, and injuries resulting from motor vehicle crashes on the nation's highways, estimates that over 6 million automobile accidents occurred in the United States in 1999. To repair crash-damaged vehicles, consumers spent over $8 billion and bought over 61 million sheet metal and plastic body parts (including exterior fenders, bumpers, hoods, and doors). Consumers and body shops that repair crash-damaged vehicles have a choice in many instances of buying new replacement parts from either the original equipment manufacturer or other sources, commonly called aftermarket manufacturers. These aftermarket manufacturers produce their parts by copying the design of the original vehicle parts. Concerns have been raised for many years about the quality and safety of aftermarket crash parts. A number of auto manufacturers and repair shop owners argue that aftermarket crash parts are inferior to original parts and pose a possible safety risk. Conversely, many aftermarket manufacturers and auto insurers argue that aftermarket crash parts can be equal in quality to original parts, are safe, and can cost up to 65 percent less than the original equipment manufacturer's parts.
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