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Voluntary Recall for SLR Supercar

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Voluntary Recall for SLR Supercar

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Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC will conduct a voluntary recall campaign on certain model year 2005 - 2006 SLR McLaren vehicles with regard to the alternator.

The company has determined that under hard operating conditions, the engine compartment temperatures can increase to a level which exceeds the design parameters for the alternator and creates the potential for an engine compartment fire.

Read "Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren Voluntary Recall" @ World Car Fans

Aren't all recalls voluntary to a large extent? I've never seen Ford come by to rig up someone's Contour and drive it to the service department.

Uh, isn't the whole point of the SLR to be driven under "hard operating conditions"?

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Uh, isn't the whole point of the SLR to be driven under "hard operating conditions"?

Right. That's why you need a new altenator that can handle those conditions.

Uh, isn't the whole point of the SLR to be driven under "hard operating conditions"?

My thoughts exactly. You'd think they would have caught this sooner in testing.

The problems are probably happening more in the US, where there's more desert region than in Germany...

Well, four-hunnert-sumthin-thousand-dollars don't buy much these days, I guess.

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