{"id":7279,"date":"2016-03-14T18:50:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T22:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=7279"},"modified":"2016-03-14T18:50:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T22:50:11","slug":"manufacturer-defect-could-affect-maserati-speed-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=7279","title":{"rendered":"Manufacturer Defect Could Affect Maserati Speed Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maserati will be asking the owners of certain 2014-<a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-MASERATI\/QUATTROPORTE\/2016\">2016 Maserati Quattroporte<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/make-MASERATI\/GHIBLI\/2016\">Ghibli<\/a> cars to return to their dealerships to repair a problem that could affect speed control.  According to the defect report, these vehicles were manufactured with a driver side floor mat anchor which could break over time.  The mat could become trapped between the accelerator pedal and carpet and affect the operation of the throttle position.   A stuck accelerator pedal could startle the vehicle operator, thereby increasing the risk of a crash. However, the vehicle is equipped with a brake override operating function which will disable any engine torque command requests by the accelerator pedal command. <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Maserati will notify owners, and dealers will replace the driver-side floor mat and the accelerator pedal cover as necessary.  For more information about the problem, owners are asked to contact Maserati customer service at 1-201-816-2600. Maserati&#8217;s number for this recall is 301 and the NHTSA campaign number is 16V-122.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maserati will be asking the owners of certain 2014-2016 Maserati Quattroporte and Ghibli cars to return to their dealerships to repair a problem that could affect speed control. According to the defect report, these vehicles were manufactured with a driver side floor mat anchor which could break over time. The mat could become trapped between&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=7279\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1317,1030],"tags":[1115,1437,791],"class_list":["post-7279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lemon-alert","category-maserati","tag-manufacturer-defect","tag-sticking-accelerator-pedal","tag-unintended-acceleration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7280,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7279\/revisions\/7280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}