According to AutoInsurance.com, carmakers issued an average of 21 recalls each in 2024.
And while auto manufacturers are on the hook for these repair costs – representing a multi-million-dollar hit to their bottom line – vehicle buyers play a role, too: they must actually bring their vehicles in to have the service performed.
It’s been well documented that many of them don’t, and a recent study by Carfax illustrates just how many that is.