We’ve been hearing of recalls impacting hundreds of thousands of vehicles in recent weeks, but supercar manufacturers don’t have that kind of scale. McLaren recently issued a recall, and the number of vehicles involved and the component triggering the whole mess is tiny.
The British automaker recalled 164 of the brand-new Artura for a potentially faulty nut on the car’s high-pressure fuel pipes. McLaren said affected cars use cold-formed nuts, which can loosen from their connection on the direct-injection fuel pump “in particular during dynamic driving maneuvers commonly associated with track running.”
The rolled threads on cold-formed nuts have a lower residual torque than is needed to secure them. Some Arturas were built with fully machined nuts, which McLaren said do not have the problem. McLaren’s fix for the recall involves replacing high-pressure fuel pipes that have cold-formed nuts with new high-pressure pipes with fully-machined nuts.
McLaren isn’t the only supercar maker with small-scale recalls in 2022. Lamborghini recalled nine units of the Countach last month over the possibility that its rear glass panels could loosen and detach. Ferrari issued what might be the largest recall of the group, including nearly every vehicle it had sold since 2005. The Italian company recalled more than 23,000 cars for risk of brake failure.
[Image: McLaren]
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