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arbilab,
You aren't harsh at all! The drums should, and are made 150% for their needed strength, but those affected ones were caused by more someone's programming rather than engineering fail.. that's why, even with welding thing cooled down, affected drums couldn't blow at 1200rpm or less, only 1400 and 1600rpm.
Aeg03,
Yes, there are Head offices, and export/import for the whole work, aswell as R&D laboratorries, projection rooms, assembling part, and warehouses (in which were around 80.000 units of Washers, WD's amd dishwashers waiting to be exported

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Fl1012,
In UK only, Candy did an "inside" recall, because they have an amazing net, and that over 95% of bought units in UK is registered online, as they are being adviced to do it both in store, or on stamp that is on machine.. In Germany, where it isn't like that, they announced it on the website, it was repeated on TV, and newspaper. Also, for another proof, I use Candy's securiflame story (fetatured in 1 of those threads). I've tried to get an e-mail that Candy sent to those neighbors in London, however neighbor is a bit old fashioned, doesn't realise that Gmail lets like 7000mails memory, so she still deletes them :O
Now, when I see you mentioned Toyota and "head in the sand", I quite see your point, but then, it seems you weren't aware of the thing that is in the link..
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-14091737