Feds Hit Chrysler For Slow Repairs on 10 Million Recalled Vehicles

U.S. auto safety regulators announced today a rare public hearing into 20 Fiat-Chrysler safety recalls, saying it has found evidence of slow repairs or bad fixes on problems covering 10.1 million cars and trucks.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administrator Mark Rosekind said while the agency’s probe was sparked by long-running concerns over Fiat-Chrysler’s recall of 1.5 million Jeep Grand Cherokee and Liberty SUVs to reduce the chance of fire in a rear-end collision, it was the scope of the problems the agency found well beyond that case which left it surprised.