Big corporation and integrity?
Hit that nail on the head. Squarely.
Automobile association taking time out from being government apologists on everything including revenue raising/road “safety”, selling members insurance and holidays and all manner of other crap to actually represent the interests of its motoring membership? I’ve commented on this before in this forum Here and here …. It’s actually a bit of a hot button of mine, since I’ve had a few bas experiences with them, including one occasion where I was told a key retrieval service I had paid for was no longer in use an they had no register of the key tags, and another where they told me that their head office could not do a roadworthy on a motorcycle for interstate transfer because they had nobody qualified. This was the RAA. I did have one mixed experience with RACV where a well known Melbourne Toyota dealer sold me a second hand Toyota with a dodgy RACV roadworthy passing it as good when it needed literally thousands of dollars of work, work that another Toyota dealer and a couple of engine specialists diagnosed the likely cause of in a few minutes and all agreed - subsequently agreed by RACV at their testing facility. Dealer gave a full refund and I walked home - Toyota Australia seemed completely disinterested in their dealers grubby dealings saying second hand vehicles were not their responsibility so accordingly I took it they don’t care about their dealers ethics or integrity either - be disappointed but not surprised I keep telling myself.
Perhaps its time for a test of motoring associations? Noting that you don’t necessarily have to live in the state/territory they are based to be a member. How many vehicles they have on the road for roadside service, response times, etc, what their sales and marketing for unrelated products, how flash their offices are 
Back to the faults/recalls - it’s amazing what they weasel out of. Have a look at the BMW fork stanchion issue - people hospitalised, reports of failures world wide, huge delays before finally BMW admitted the problem.
I guess thats a few of the reasons we are here on this forum
