What changed after it was published

A recall notice is not a fixed document. The manufacturer files it, the authority publishes it, and afterwards the text is edited — a remedy narrowed, a consequence reworded, a model added to the list. When that happens the new text replaces the old one, and nothing marks the page to say it ever changed.

We re-read the wording of every campaign we hold on a rolling cycle and keep a dated copy of each version with a fingerprint of the text. When a fingerprint stops matching, the notice was edited between our two readings — and that becomes a page here, with both versions and the words that moved marked.

Each entry is fixed once written. It is a record of one day, and it stays true about that day.

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Recall wording is published by the named authorities and, in the United States, is US Government public domain. The dated copies, the comparisons and the markings are CarsMultiverse.

Two figures here count rewrites and they are not the same measure. The wording fingerprint has moved on 101 campaigns. The earlier wording is held beside the current one for 89 of them, across 102 separate changes. Both are published: the fingerprints and the wording archive.