General Motors has announced it will recall every Chevrolet Cobalt, Chevrolet HHR, Pontiac G5, Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Ion and Saturn Sky as the investigation into the recall of faulty ignition switches in its cars continues. Prior to the announcement, 1.6 million vehicles manufactured between 2003 and 2007 were involved, but it has since been extended to 824,000 more vehicles in the U.S. The additional vehicles were built from 2008-11.
The problem: Just as before, the ignition switch causes the vehicle’s key to unintentionally move into either the accessory or off positions, shutting off the cars power. This latest recall is due to a Technical Service Bulletin GM issued for the faulty ignition, which told mechanics to install an insert for the key ring that prevents the key from moving around. Unfortunately, that part had the same part number as the current ignition switch part, so GM has no way of telling which cars got the fix and which didn’t. Now, they must recall every single car to prevent further mishaps down the road.
Affected vehicles: The affected vehicles now include all model years of the Chevrolet Cobalt, Chevy HHR, Pontiac G5, Pontiac Solstice, Saturn Ion and Saturn Sky.
Number of vehicles potentially affected: With this latest round of recalls, the number of vehicles affected has grown to 2,591,665 cars, according to Reuters data.
The fix: GM says those owners who may have had a suspect part installed will receive a notification letter the week of April 21. GM dealers will replace their ignition switch free of charge as the parts become available. Customers who paid to have their ignition switches replaced will be eligible for reimbursement. In the meantime, GM has consistently urged customers to remove all items, including the key fob, from their key rings leaving only the vehicle key.
Contacts: GM will notify owners by mail if their vehicle may have received a suspect part. Information updates on the ignition switch recall, including parts availability and recall timing, is available at this link.
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Now Garbage Motors halted sales of 2013 and 2014 Cruzes with the 1.4T, without offering a reason. They should sell them anyway, and then blame the owners when the car explodes and leaves the driver holding a steering wheel in a smoldering pile of feces.
Explode? Issue is a bad batch of shafts from the supplier. Worst that could happen is the car stops moving forward and you need to pull over.
In other news, Magirus’s birth doctor found guilty of dropping babies on their heads at birth.
Get off the site Troll!!
There is no rule on this site saying you MUST be a mindless GM lover to comment or view any content. This is a news blog for GM, not Facebook. I will admit im not a GM fan, but i come here all the time to view news content about GM as i do with other brand/company specific blogs/forums.
With that said, its typical to see you GM fans use insults to hide the fact your company has issues. Or mediocre excuses. Well face it, this new recall shows that this was under “New GM”…
You are right; you don’t have to be a GM lover on this forum. But when a member’s posting history is 100% negative and has never said a good thing about GM (magirus never posts in the good GM stories), that is trolling and he is only here to bash. He can never give GM any credit.
Discussion is one thing; continuous bashing is another and it is called trolling.
This story is on the cobalt platform recall and magirus brings up the Cruze stop sale order and proceeds to assume the cars will blow up.
Magirus constantly throws out misinformation because he has one point of view and no matter what happens he will talk negatively about GM and make up stuff to do it.
We are all here to find out the latest news on GM and to have discussions. We do not need trolls who make up stuff.
If you want to discuss the negatives that is great but just to come on and say “Garbage Motors” and make up things and use inflammatory words like “explode” when obviously no one knew what the issue was is not what we want.
There are enough sites out there where people have an agenda to blow their own horn and hopefully this will not become one of them otherwise I will be outta here.
Haha What if you have had 10 ignition switches and your car decides to stop on you when your going 70mph?? What do you have to say about that issue. This isn’t the first time. I sued Saturn in 2007 and they knew about this problem. It needs another ignition switch, so I was driving it on the highway at 70mph and it jolts and stops. I almost got rear ended by a semi. I hate GM
Dpach is correct.
Reasonable discussion is expected and encouraged but this one does a large amount of posting things that either are not true or posted in a way he does not give all the facts. Then he goes into his Dodge Truck proselytizing that is part truth mixed with part disclosure and part lie in threads that have nothing to do with Dodge or even Dodge trucks.
Most people are fair and balanced here but some are just hell bent playing the negative card nearly 100% of the time and then claim to be GM fans because they own one.
If he could ever be more balanced and call the good with the bad he would not receive up to 30 plus negatives as he has in some post. In fact he receives more negatives than even the guy just banned.
Most here are fair but we will call out those who are not fair. They may like to accuse those of us as being GM blind lovers then so be it but we will not just sit here and thread after thread take the posted BS that gets left behind.
I do not care if it is GM, Ford, Chrysler or Toyota one must take in the whole picture and be balanced in their assessments.
Some people are cancers to web sites and this is one. Just take what he posted here as it has no relevance to the topic good or bad. Post like this just hurt web sites as do people like this. If you will take the time to look at his post most are like this.
JG I may not always agree with you but at least you are on topic and relevant so their is a difference. I would not rush to defend one like this as he is not even close to you.
We just lost one that could not control himself and he even has less negatives than this one. I expect in time someone here will take this one out too. The sooner the better.
When I started visiting this site over three years ago, we didn’t have mindless people bashing on anyone or anything. I’m trying to imply anything negative, but can we act really mature on really serious matters? Almost every car company has recalls. Ones like this one are truly noticeable, I agree, but so was the one Toyota had with its acceleration problem a few years ago. I do have a sense of humor, so you can say satirical comments, but not constantly to the point where it’s just considered insults, bashing, and/or trolling. End of advice and rant.
Remember the web is the door to out lives that we let open to some that we would not let inside the front door of out homes.
Best stand up to and not feed the trolls. Present the truth and it will stand on it’s own.