Motor Vehicle Defects

• Motor vehicle safety standards: Potential defects; quarterly early warning reports; submission due dates,

• FR, June 29, 2004
• Proposed rules
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• Secs. 1411 to 1420. Repealed. Pub. L. 103-272, Sec. 7(b), July 5, 1994, 108 Stat. 1379

... finding of defect or failure to comply with motor vehicle safety standard. See section 30118 of Titl...

• U.S. Code - Title 15: Commerce and Trade

• Motor vehicle safety standards: Foreign safety recalls and campaigns related to potential defects; information reporting,

• FR, October 11, 2002
• Rules
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• No Reason to Delay Car Tests

STATE OFFICIALS want to stop looking for mechanical defects during motor vehicle inspections. Raymond Martinez, the new chief administrator of the Motor Vehicle Commission, says too few defects are found to justify continuing the mechanical tests. They cost the state $12 million a year, and the rejection rate is less than 6 percent. Further, Martinez says, there is no conclusive evidence that eliminating the tests will result in more traffic accidents.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• June 09, 2010

• Motor vehicle safety standards: Defect and noncompliance— Potential defects; information and documents reporting,

• FR, April 16, 2004
• Rules
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• 49 CFR 576.1 - Scope.

... for the retention by manufacturers of motor vehicles and of motor vehicle equipment, of claims... motor vehicle or motor vehicle equipment defects and malfunctions that may be related to motor vehi...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 49: Transportation

• Motor vehicle safety standards: Defect and noncompliance— Foreign safety recalls and campaigns related to potential defects; information reporting,

• FR, January 28, 2003
• Rules
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• Motor vehicle safety standards: Defect and noncompliance reports and notification; manufacturer notification to dealers of safety related defects; implementation,

• FR, May 19, 1999
• Proposed rules
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• Motor vehicle safety standards: Defect and noncompliance— Potential defects; information and documents reporting,

• FR, November 14, 2003
• Rules
• National Highway Traffic Safety Administration

• Money, Not Safety, Drives Mvc 'Reform'

You think your prized sedan is in perfect shape when you pull into the inspection station, but the inspector ruins your day by pasting a failure sticker on the windshield right near the tiny gash that you thought was a squashed spider. Now, you've got until the end of the following month to repair this nick and get the car re-inspected. What a bummer! But maybe not for long. Under a New Jersey Motor Vehicle Commission plan, a cracked windshield, inaudible horn, broken wiper blade and 15 other defects would rate only an "advisory" a simple warning to get it fixed, but no return visit.

• The Record, Bergen County, NJ
• August 14, 2006