Chinese Counterfeit Components Result in 17 Thousand Supercars Recall in UK

The manufacturer of the supercar used by Agent 007 in the movie, Aston Martin, has recently announced that it would recall 17,590 units of supercars due to the potential risk of car accidents that may be caused by the Chinese made counterfeit parts. Since 2008, the number of cars using the batch of counterfeit products has occupied 75% of the total production of Aston Martin, which shows a tremendous loss to the company as well as reflects the problem of the quality of Chinese automotive parts.

According to Aston Martin, the cars being recalled are all installed with the leverage arm for the accelerating pedal, however, the material used to make the leverage arm is not actually from DuPont, so breakage may happen. Although there is no case being reported to be caused by these counterfeit parts, Aston Martin has already determined to manufacture this kind of parts in UK.

The data show that in 2013, 5.31 million units of cars were recalled. If the total car production in 2013 in China reached 21.98 million units, then 1/4 of them would be recalled , showing a very severe problem of quality management.