Car recall solicitation countdown

Before entering the topic, please look at a set of comparative data: In 2011, China’s vehicle ownership exceeded 100 million vehicles, surpassing Japan to become the world’s second-largest automobile-owning country, and the number of US ownership in the first place was approximately 240 million units; In the whole year, the sales volume of China's auto market was close to 20 million, and the sales volume in the second-placed US market was about 12 million. The last group of data is the most critical. In 2011, there were 82 vehicle recalls in China, involving more than 1.82 million vehicles. Vehicle. At the same time, the number of vehicle recalls in the United States in 2011 was 593, involving 15.5 million vehicles.

Status Quo: Vehicle recall can't be difficult. It is not difficult to see from the above three sets of data that, compared with the United States, the recall of the Chinese market is not directly proportional to the total vehicle ownership or the annual automobile sales. Is it true that the quality of cars on the Chinese market is excellent, and it is impossible to recall them?

Obviously, the answer is no. According to industry insiders' analysis, the most fundamental reason for the difficulty in the recall of China's autos and the difficulty of consumer rights protection is that the automobile recall system is seriously lagging behind the development level of the auto industry.

China's auto recall system began in 2004. The current "Regulations on the Recall of Defective Automobile Products", which was jointly issued by the AQSIQ and other four departments, was formally implemented on October 1, 2004. However, this provision is only the level set by the AQSIQ under the departmental regulations. It can neither be effective in forcing vehicle manufacturers to recall defective vehicles, nor can it help consumers to safeguard their rights.

Inflection point: The recall regulations were solicited for comments from this month On the 3rd of this month, the Legal Affairs Office of the State Council issued the "Regulations on the Recall of Defective Automobile Products (Draft for Soliciting Opinions)" and solicited opinions from the public.

According to the analysis of auto industry insiders, many provisions of the current "Management Regulations" are too general and neither clearly govern the departments nor have corresponding legal effects. The "opinion drafts" that are currently soliciting opinions as their "upgraded versions" are expected to become state administration. Laws and regulations have made it possible for cars to be recalled.

The release of the opinion draft can be said to be a spring breeze of the auto market in 2012. The "Resolutions" stipulate that the production, sale, and import of defective automotive products should be immediately stopped and recalls implemented. For a car company that violates the regulations, a fine of not less than 500,000 yuan but not more than 1 million yuan will be imposed, and the circumstances may be severe. The relevant licenses may be directly revoked, and the tire recall that has been inaccessible is also included in the system. The automobile manufacturer is responsible for the recall. Defective tires onboard the vehicle.

A description of the "defects" of auto products that producers and operators need to recall. The current "opinion" is quite scientific. It includes "design, manufacturing, and marking defects" that may endanger human health and personal and property safety. Recall range.

It is expected that the self-owned brands will be among the 82 recalls that occurred in the domestic auto market in the severely-hit areas in 2011, and only one time was attributed to their own brands (because they were equipped with Kumho tyres). In fact, the quality of independent brands is not less than that of joint venture brands or foreign brands, but the awareness of recall is generally weak.

In the current "Management Regulations for Recalling Defective Automobile Products", although there are manufacturers who have voluntarily recalled and instructed the authorities to recall two procedures, no manufacturer has been recalled by the directive for more than seven years. If the auto recall regulations are formally upgraded from departmental regulations to regulations, one of the highlights in the opinion draft will be “ordering a recall” to be effective, and automakers with a weak sense of recall will bear the brunt of it.

According to industry insiders, as an example of the frequent self-ignition that has been hotly debated in the past and the alleged design flaws of China Junjie FRV, if it is confirmed that there are "defects", or will be the focus of the recall, many self-owned brand cars with quality risks It will also be a "hard-hit area" for the recall.