{"id":784,"date":"2009-10-22T15:08:49","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallvehicles.wordpress.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2009-10-22T15:08:49","modified_gmt":"2009-10-22T18:08:49","slug":"bad-boy-buggies-recall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/bad-boy-buggies-recall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Boy Buggies Recall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 405px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Bad Boy Buggie Standard Model\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/cpscpub\/prerel\/prhtml10\/10015.jpg\" alt=\"Bad Boy Buggie Standard Model Being Recalled\" width=\"395\" height=\"324\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bad Boy Buggie Standard Model Being Recalled<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday the <span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular;font-size:x-small;\">U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Bad Boy Enterprises, announced a voluntary recall of the company&#8217;s Bad Boy Buggie Standard model.  The company has received 32 reports of the vehicles accelerating without warning, which in some cases resulted in injuries. The recall affects <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular;font-size:x-small;\">models with serial numbers between 85004828 and 95010404. The serial number is located on a sticker in a cubby on the driver???s side. the vehicles were sold between June, 2007 and July, 2009. <\/span><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular;font-size:x-small;\">Consumers should immediately stop using the vehicles and contact their Bad Boy Buggy dealer for a free repair. For additional information, contact Bad Boy Enterprises toll-free at (866) 678-6701 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. CT Monday through Friday, or visit their <a title=\"Bad Boy Buggie Website\" href=\"www.badboyenterprises.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">website<\/a>.   <a title=\"Bad Boy Buggie Recall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cpsc.gov\/cpscpub\/prerel\/prhtml10\/10015.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:  CPSC.gov<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial,Helvetica,Geneva,Swiss,SunSans-Regular;font-size:x-small;\"><strong>Update: <\/strong> Originally the company tried a software patch to fix what they thought was the problem.?? While this did reduce instances of the problem, the did not completely solve it.?? The company will now be installing a zener diode chip into vehicles as a remedy.?? the process should take less than an hour ,and even if you already have the software patch you should still have the new chip installed. <a title=\"Bad boy Buggie Recall Info\" href=\"http:\/\/www.natchezdemocrat.com\/news\/2009\/oct\/24\/bad-boy-recalls-3900-buggies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Learn more:?? Natchezdemocrat.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with Bad Boy Enterprises, announced a voluntary recall of the company&#8217;s Bad Boy Buggie Standard model. The company has received 32 reports of the vehicles accelerating without warning, which in some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/22\/bad-boy-buggies-recall\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,23,26,27],"tags":[148,149,303,431,1062,1180,1181,1375],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electric-vehicles","category-management","category-sales-figures","category-technology","category-utility-vehicles","tag-bad-bo","tag-bad-boy-buggie","tag-cpsc","tag-electric-vehicle","tag-recall","tag-side-by","tag-side-by-side","tag-utility-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallvehicleresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}