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* This is NHTSA's home page: www.nhtsa.gov/
* Search NHTSA's site to check out other car complaints people have reported:www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/complaints/
* After the massive Firestone tire recall Congress, in a stunning move, required automakers submit information to NHTSA about lawsuits and claims filed against manufacturers alleging safety defects. Federal investigators have been collecting this data for years in what's called an "Early Warning Reporting System" (EWR). Now you can search for information: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ewr/qb/index.cfm
* If the Feds start hearing the same scary story via consumer complaints and lawsuit data, it may take a closer look at what's going on. This is headed by the Office of Defect Investigation (ODI). All ODI investigations and results are online: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/problems/defect/defectsearch.cfm
* To see if your car has been the subject of a recall, click here: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/ If a safety recall was issued for your vehicle, just make an appointment at your dealer, the repair should cost you nothing.
* To be sure you don't miss out on getting what could be a life saving letter in the mail, you can sign up for the feds new automatic notification system: http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/subscriptions/index.cfm

Mary_SchwagerMary Schwager is a journalist with more than 17 years experience. She's won more than two-dozen local, regional, national and international journalism awards for investigative, consumer, feature reporting and writing including 10 Emmy Awards and 7 Edward R. Murrow Awards and numerous Associated Press honors. She worked as a television reporter, investigative reporter and investigative producer at network affiliated stations across the country including Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Milwaukee, WI, Indianapolis, Indiana and in Boston, Massachusetts. After graduating from Marquette University in Milwaukee, she also conducted criminal and insurance fraud investigations as a state licensed detective. Mary is also a national consumer columnist for Examiner.Com: http://www.examiner.com/x-1893-News-You-Can-Use-Examiner.

 

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