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Nanos catch fire, Tata calls for check
By siliconindia
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Thursday, 22 October 2009, 22:31 IST
New Delhi: Tata Motors may carry out a pre-delivery audit on the 7,500-odd Nanos that have been delivered till date after a faulty combination switch in the world's cheapest car resulted in fires in at least three cases across the country.
Three cases of fire in the car had been reported in the past few days in Delhi, Lucknow and Ahmedabad. There were no reports of injury or loss of life in any of the incidents.
When contacted, Tata Motors said that it was not considering a recall of the car for the time being. It said that its experts will check all the cars with customers, purely as a precautionary measure. Unlike in the U.S. and European car markets, recall of cars is not mandatory in India, even in cases of technical faults.
Nano in July, said it was not considering any re-engineering in the car despite the fact that the fires were caused by a common problem in all the cases. The cars were stationary when the fires were reported. Tata Motors has not started to export the car yet. It refused to share the number of Nanos parked at its Pantnagar factory in Uttrakhand and those with dealers.