GM issues 6 more recalls covering 312,000 vehicles

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP-Excite

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors on Friday issued six more recalls totaling more than 312,000 vehicles as the company cleans up past safety issues.

The recalls in North America pushed GM's total for the year to 66, covering just over 29 million cars and trucks. That beats the company's old full-year record and has pushed this total number for the industry this year to more than 40 million, also an annual record.

The largest of Friday's recalls covers 215,243 Saturn Vue SUVs from the 2002 through 2004 model years. GM says keys can be removed when ignitions are not in the "off" position. The problem is linked to two crashes and one injury.

GM is conducting a companywide safety review following a bungled recall of 2.6 million small cars with faulty ignition switches. GM has admitted knowing about the defective switches for at least a decade, yet it didn't recall the cars until February.

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[Sherman A1]

1. It would seem easier just to make a list

of what has not been recalled by GM at this point.

[VA_Jill]

2. I have vowed never to buy another GM car

I owned two Saturns. In fact, I still own one, although the title is somewhat murky and it's sitting in Tennessee and currently doesn't run but is eminently fixable. I loved those little cars! I loved that they were made in Tennessee and I loved the way the factory was set up and the whole culture surrounding them. They were fine little vehicles and they never gave me any problems. People drove them forever back in the 90s. Then GM had to go stick its nose in and decide the way the company was set up didn't suit them after all, so they changed it to the way things were then done in the parent company, with frequent re-designs and top-down management instead of the collaborative way things had been done in Springhill, TN. Next thing you knew, it was just another inferior GM car and sales plummeted. It was no longer the Saturn we knew and loved, it fell apart or quit running for no reason, it was cheaply made and it *looked* cheap. When I needed a new car in 2005, I looked at the Saturn Vue and shook my head. Although I'd been a Saturn driver for more than a decade, I knew it was no longer going to be *my* car. Nor was any other GM vehicle. My late ex had bought a Chevrolet truck in 2003 and it had given him nothing but trouble from the very beginning, when he'd had to return it to the dealer for a factory error, and several recalls. Between those two things, I decided that was the end of any dealings I would ever have with GM. My significant other drives a Chevrolet Equinox, bought on the "Cash for Clunkers" program, which I advised him AGAINST buying, and he's had several recalls on it, but he won't admit I was right. I suspect when the time comes to replace it he may look at a Ford, though.

I drive a 2006 Honda CR-V. It was, however, built in the US.

[AngryAmish]

3. I would not take one if it was free.

GM burned their bridge with me fifteen years ago. I looked at a Volt last fall. Bought a Prius instead and thank my lucky stars. Other car is a volvo wagon (why yes I am a liberal city nit so yuppie anymore) that has 105k on it. It will need a new timing belt and water pump next service but I figure she has another 100k at least in her.