GM adding 824,000 vehicles to ignition recall

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

DETROIT (AP) - General Motors is adding 824,000 small cars to its ongoing recall tied to defective ignition switches.

The company will add vehicles from the 2008-2011 model years to a recall that initially covered cars only through the 2007 model year.

The Chevrolet Cobalt, Chevrolet HHR, Pontiac G5, Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Ion and Saturn Sky are all involved in the recall.

GM says around 5,000 of the faulty switches were used for repairs on 2008-2011 model year cars. GM says it's expanding the recall to make sure it finds all the switches.

FULL story at link.

This now includes my 09 Cobalt LT.



Read more: http://apnews.excite.com/article/20140328/DACQV1NG2.html

[Walk away]

1. I remember when DU went crazy over Toyota.

People here were telling me that my Rav4 was going to kill me (it's now 10 yrs old and no problems of any kind). They were posting pile on threads fill with Toyota hatred and dire predictions.

Now GM really has been basically killing people with millions of dangerous cars. Were is the vitriol?

[madokie]

2. If I remember correctly toyota just paid a 1.2 billion fine

If I remember also there were loss of lives and loss of property involved

What made it so bad for many about toyota is because the denied that what they finally agreed to pay a fine for wasn't happening when the people who were involved knew what they went through was real but yet toyota kept saying no. Haven't been paying much attention to gm but when the word got out what was going on they didn't stand up and deny it was happening, best I can tell. When they were called out by the ntsb they started the recalls.
I'm a ford man myself so I have not feathers in this fight

[Walk away]

3. What? There was a cover up and they are being sued...

Hasn't this problem been going on since 2004?

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/gm-recalls-chevy-cobalt-other-vehicles-a-decade-after-finding-ignition-switch-defect/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/13/business/lawyers-prepare-for-gm-suits-with-novel-strategies.html

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2014/03/12/genm-m12.html

[lostincalifornia]

4. and Toyotas problem was going on since 2004 also. How do I know? Because my 2004 Prius had the

accelerator stuck by my floor mat. No, luckily I manage to move my foot under the floor mat and kick it away. I removed the floor mat on the drivers side at least 2 years before I received notice from Toyota to do that. Incidently, as I recall there were several recalls going on with Toyota. One was the drivers floor mat causing the accelerator to stick, and another was the drive by wire shim issue. I needed to take care of both.

The GM ignition issue happened under different management. The moment the new CEO found out about this problem she immediately took action, and did something that I have not seen many CEOs do. She came out and not only took full responsibility, and admitted blame publicly, and took immediate action.

In addition, GM did notify dealers and owners at the time offering free repairs, but did NOT note the possibility of any danger, and that is the problem.

[Walk away]

7. So that is the reason Toyota got massive threads with weeks of hatred...

and GM gets a DU pass. Same stuff but somehow different. I don't really care. I was just pointing out that people are bizarrely selective about what gets them all excited. I used to think it mattered.

[lostincalifornia]

8. of course not

[Kokonoe]

6. The GM person who is responsible will go to jail.

Toyota paid a fine.
Kinda like IOKIYAR

[hollysmom]

5. my car has been recalled

But I never use heavy key chains been warned not to do that by the dealer since 2002. I have had the locks replaced several times of different cars, I am going to send the the bill for each and every one of them.