About Us
UnfixedRecalls.com is a website of The Data Source. The company began tracking and reporting data and information on recalls and safety defects involving motor vehicles and related equipment, including tires and child safety seats, shortly after its start-up in 1994.
In our first year, we were very fortunate to quickly gain notoriety for having some of the largest privately owned recall and safety defect databases in existence. As a result, over the next few years, we were frequently called upon for both data and quotable statements by a number of major, local and national media organizations, including: AP, UPI Radio, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The San Diego Union Tribune, and San Diego’s NBC TV affiliate, KNSD TV 7/39.
During those early years, the World Wide Web was still in its relative infancy. Fewer than 20 million people worldwide were online in 1995, and the vast majority of them were researchers, professors or government employees, who used the Internet strictly for work. Netscape and AOL were brand new companies, and the general public was just beginning to hear about the wonders of surfing the Web. Back then, the Web just wasn’t quite ready yet for us, or for our Recall Update safety notification service – but we believed that one day, it would be.
Not seeing any immediate way back then to have the company pull its own weight by breaking even, we decided in late 1996 to temporarily scale back, and put certain aspects of the business into hibernation. The plan was to continue to stay on top of the recalls and safety defects, and monitor the growth of the Web, hoping it would in deed skyrocket, as the experts were predicting. We believed that if the unfixed recalls problem didn’t somehow miraculously improve, and if Web usage grew as predicted, that the day would eventually come when the timing was right to end the hibernation, and bring the problem to light on the Web.
Now, that day has arrived. The problem has grown much worse over the past decade - the 37 million unfixed recalled vehicles that we now have on our roads today is nearly double the 20 million that Consumer Reports magazine reported back in late 1993. And Internet usage has in deed taken off - over 108 million Americans regularly log in from home, and some 46 million regularly log in at work, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.
We look forward to helping reduce the alarming number of unsafe, unfixed, recalled vehicles, car seats and tires that are out running around on our roads today, and we thank you for visiting our website, and for telling your friends and loved ones about us.