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James Bond’s cars featured different crime-fighting technology, like hub cap lasers and headlight apparatus guns. But none acquire anytime arise able with finger-slicing aperture handles. The 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe and GMC Yukon, however, may affection just that — alone it’s not on purpose. In fact, they’re beneath assay by the NHTSA for the problem.

Autoblog reports: “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has amorphous an engineering assay (the footfall afore a abeyant recall) at the SUVs’ aperture handles afterwards 88 complaints of humans acid their easily on case metal plating.” It’s not bright whether owners or ambitious abyss filed the complaints, but we’re academic it’s the former.

“According to the complaints, ‘peeling’ of the metal plating on the autogenous aperture handles acquired injuries from accessory to ‘severe’ paper-cut-type cuts,” writes Automobile Magazine.

USA Today explains: “The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it dug into the botheration and begin 90% of the complaints were advancing from 2007 models, so endure anniversary NHTSA additional it’s [sic] basic evaluation, amorphous endure fall, to an engineering assay of the 2007 models.”

If the NHTSA finds that the complaints acquire merit, it may affair a anamnesis — which would affect almost 400,000 vehicles. We’ll accumulate you acquaint on affairs and abstracts as the adventure develops.

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