The recall is worldwide and the solution is simple: take out the old pins and fit new ones. The recall doesn't affect models with side-hinged doors, but will involve a global total of 589,000 Caddys (523 vehicles in Ireland) that were built between November 2003 and January 2013 and are fitted with tailgates.
Customers will be contacted by letter and asked to bring their cars into their local dealer to have the remedial work done.
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It's been a bad couple of weeks for recalls, once again. Toyota had to recall millions of Prius worldwide for a software defect while in the US, General Motors is in the midst of a controversial 1.6 million vehicle recall of various Chevrolet Cobalt, Pontiac G5 and Saturn Ion models to fix a faulty ignition system, which has been blamed for several fatal accidents.
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