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  • I think a “recall” has a very specific legal definition, where the manufacturer has strictly defined responsibilities (identifying and notifying owners of affected vehicles would be one of those). It wouldn’t surprise me if there was some external agency that acted as an auditor on that.

    On the other hand, manufacturers can put out a “service action” bulletin, where a particular repair is free to the vehicle owner, but none of those recall responsibilities are in place. This means that, for example, vehicle owners are not notified, so you just need to bring your vehicle in with the complaint specified in the service action. In this case, the vehicle owner might need to point out that there’s a service action, because a shady dealer will pretend it doesn’t exist, charge you for the repair, and also submit the repair to the manufacturer for reimbursement. This was a lot easier to do before the internet, since the information about that service action wasn’t readily available to the public.










  • Those “rules of grammar” you’re citing have been defined by a very specific class (and frankly, color) of people, and then dictated to students.

    Language is functional when it communicates ideas sufficiently from a speaker to their selected audience, and it’s the speaker and their audience who decide that.

    With regard to the specific sentence “I didn’t do nothing,” you wouldn’t have asked this question if you didn’t already know what such a speaker was actually trying to communicate. You just don’t like it, and that’s a you thing.

    Gah - just realized you’re not OP. My previous paragraph still generally stands.