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Why isn't it a recall item? Because just like the burnt out fan motors, worn out bushings and front wheel bearings. Failed power steering pumps etc. They would cost Chrysler billions so they just tell us it's not a major problem and only when owners are hurt or die from the cheap or poorly designed parts and it's brought to the attention of people that can do something about it does it make it to the recall stage...and even then maybe not.

Remember the Ford Pinto. Ford new about the cars and how the gas tank could explode in a rear end collision but memos were found from upper management saying that it would cost more to recall all the Pintos and redesign them than to pay off the survivors of the people killed in a rear ender.

There's other examples from Ford and Chevrolet that I could mention but everything comes down to cost.