I’ve gotten a lot of pm’s on this. The VOA isn’t involved in anything, however we did try to help the 2 people with blown engines get some attention. Also tried to get mopar to act, they thought that they could do it, but the cars were flagged and they couldn’t. That’s the extent of what we can do, we tried leveraging our relationships, but we’re certainly not part of leading/participating in any lawsuit with fca. I’ll say that I don’t disagree with these guys completely. Specific to the motors with controllers – Dodge would have covered these in the past. And with motors blowing, that tested clean, does pose a problem for them and a class action lawsuit indeed isn’t out of the question for specifically this type of grievance. We’ll see where it goes.
With said, as Bruce stated, let’s sure people know the distinction on the VOA’s position. I wasn’t happy with the VCA posting on their website that the “VOA is wining and threatening a lawsuit”. Of course again hoping to mislead FCA and others, but we know the Dodge guys well enough and they’re aware of our role, but members sometimes won’t.
Frankly the only ones not agreeing with the victims are the folks highest up on the chain. They’re still “reviewing it”, but if they’ve pushed it off and denied it could be their product. It’s sad.
