Inside from Dell

[DarkKnight69]

The exploding battery issue, there will soon be a voluntary recall on sony celled batteries through dell. Came from an inside source.

Watch for it soon!

Info from Dell.

 

[TheOverlord]

any idea how soon it will be announced? i'm leaving the country in a week but might have one of these batteries...

 

[imported_miner]

Already been announced...
http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/14/technology/dell.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

But I doubt anything is going to happen within a week.

 

[postmortemIA]

Are all these batteries Made in Japan?

 

[Utterman]

[/quote]Cnet Article

Models in the hot seat

Dell plans to announce a recall of 4.1 million batteries worldwide on Tuesday. Here's a list of the affected models.

Latitude
D410, D500, D505, D510, D520, D600, D610, D620, D800, D810
Inspiron
6000, 8500, 8600, 9100, 9200, 9300, 500m, 510m, 600m, 6400, E1505, 700m, 710m, 9400, E1705
Dell Precision
M20, M60, M70 and M90 mobile workstations
XPS
XPS, XPS Gen2, XPS M170 and XPS M1710

Source: Consumer Product Safety Commission

 

[cheesehead]

Funny how I own two batteries on the list.

 

[postmortemIA]

In other words:
models: *

 

[BladeVenom]

http://www.dellbatteryprogram.com/
It's Sony batteries. Last recall it was Sony batteries. Is Sony the only ones who can't make safe batteries?

 

[Sourabh]

wow nice those who have got their batterys pretty f'ed up with time and power usage. You get new batteries for free! That is ofcourse on the lighter side of things. but 4.1 million notebook batteries is such a huge number!

 

[WackyDan]

Well, Every major vendor uses Sony to supply the cels used in SOME of their batteries.

Seems how they package, and charge them is different by vendor, and that seems to be what bit Dell. Several documented notebooks out of millions sold isn't too bad though - Just wear flame retardant pants....and gloves.

 

[Slikkster]

Luck of the draw, but no free battery for me! Seems like I have the only battery NOT on that list, lol.

 

[Rankor]

glad the battery on my E1705 is not on the recall list. Turns out to be a battery manufactured by Sanyo.

 

[Aimster]

Blah

my battery is made in Korea on my E1705.

I wanted a new battery

 

[deathwalker]

Ihave a 9300 and its battery is not on the list...BTW..I love my 9300. This is very unfortunate for Dell at this time since they have been suffering somewhat as of late with Cust. Service reputation issues. When actually in fact, this has nothing to do with Dell at its grassroots..its crapy Sony Batteries..I just guess they will have to live with it.

 

[beatle]

My batteries are on the list (700m 8-cell) but when I enter the PPID it says it's not due for replacement. What gives?

 

[Parasitic]

Who's paying for the recalls, Dell or Sony?


I hope it's Sony.

 

[Acanthus]

My 9 cell battery for my E1505 made in japan is not recalled.

Dodged a bullet there i think.

Sony is footing the bill according to dell. Nothing but bad news for sony lately.