In addition to the recall of about 140,000 2014 Chevrolet Malibu sedans, General Motors has also added 2.7 million previous-generation vehicles to its list of recalled vehicles, the automaker announced today.
The problem: This recall affects multiple models for a variety of reasons. The largest recall, encompassing about 2.4 million vehicles, is for previous-generation passenger cars with a malfunctioning taillight. The sixth-generation Corvette is recalled for a possible loss of low-beam head lamps, while the 2013-2014 Cadillac CTS may experience windshield wiper failure. Finally, certain full-size trucks are recalled for a tie-rod defect which may lead to a crash.
Models affected: The largest recall involves 2004-2012 Chevrolet Malibu, 2004-2007 Chevrolet Malibu Maxx, 2005-2010 Pontiac G6 and 2007-2010 Saturn Aura models. The Corvette recall affects all C6 Corvettes produced between the 2005-2007 model years, while the CTS recall is for CTS sedans of the 2013-2014 model year. Lastly, the full-size truck recall involves 2014-2015 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups and 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs.
Number of affected vehicles: 2,440,524 previous-generation cars are recalled for tail lamp malfunctions. The Corvette recall involves 111,889 units, while 19,225 Cadillac CTS sedans are affected. Only 477 full-size trucks are recalled for the tie-rod defect.
The fix: For the passenger car recall, affected vehicles could have corrosion in the wiring harness, which dealers will fix free of charge. 13 crashes and two injuries but no fatalities have been reported as a result of the defect.
The Corvette recall, caused by the electrical center housing expanding when the engine gets hot, will be repaired free of charge, although Chevrolet has not named an exact fix for the problem. They have received several hundred complaints on the matter, but no crashes or injuries have been reported.
Previous-generation Cadillac CTS’ are recalled for a windshield wiper system which malfunction after a vehicle jump start with the wipers active. Dealers will replace the front wiper module free of charge. GM says it is unaware of any crashes or injuries due to the condition.
The fifth recall, involving certain Silverado and Sierra pickups and Chevrolet Tahoe SUVs, is for a tie rod attachment to the steering gear which may not be tightened properly. Customers are instructed to have their vehicles taken by flatbed to their dealer, where the inner tie rods will be inspected for correct torque, and, if necessary, the steering gear will be replaced. The issue was discovered during assembly, which is why only a small number of vehicles are affected.
Contacts: Owners may contact one of the following numbers for more information:
Chevrolet: 1-800-222-1020
Cadillac: 1-800-458-8006
Saturn: 1-800-553-6000
Pontiac: 1-800-762-2737
GMC: 1-800-462-8782
Comments
So for this year, GM has recalled more vehicles than it produced in all of 2013…
I applaud GM’s efforts to tackle any and all vehicle defects. But from the eyes of the consumer and the market, this is highly discouraging. It’d be easier to accept if only older model vehicles were being recalled I suppose, but to see so many newer model cars in the recall circle is even more disheartening. I know these misfortunes are common to all manufacturers, in their’s as well as the supporters of GM’s defense, but I do believe soon that GM’s profits and market share are going to take a huge hit.
GM has got to put a stronger emphasis on quality!!! How are all of these defects getting past inspectors?!
You’d think that, but I’m not so sure. Just look at how many recalls the Ford Escape has:
http://www.autoblog.com/ford/escape/recalls/
One of these recalls (actually multiple ones for the same issue) included an engine fire problem which Ford had to issue a park car order.
With all of that, Escape sales are at an all-time high.
Recalls are just noise b/c there are so many of them. What would damage sales if one of the new models was found to have an issue which lead to deaths. Or similarly, if a key product feature (like Ford with the CMax overstatement of MPG) was found. GM hasn’t had that, at least not yet.
I will agree the Escape has a bad history of Recalls. But what i think is making the GM recalls worse is that they are recalling 5-10 year old vehicles for problems that could have been (After the whole Cobalt debacle) swept under the table and purposely forgotten because of bad business practice/management of the “old GM”.
Ford’s recent recalls are more oriented to 1-2 year old vehicles, and besides the whole Ecoboost 1.6L problems, the Escape (And Kuga) is still a highly regarded SUV. Admittedly I am a Ford fan, and I whole heartedly feel bad for GM fans at this point. As a Ford fan, i always want to see Ford come out on top, but as an American, i cant help but want GM to be at the top aswell. Its ashame that all this bad publicity is probably turning people away from domestics, which sucks. As for sales, i believe there is a fine ratio between those leaving the brand for trust issues, and people intrigued to the brand because of the improvements over the years, if these recalls continue we may see a dip in sales for GM products.
GM fans are in a bind here because you really don’t know the 100% truth in what GM has been doing in recent years, obviously the Cobalt situation was bad, but it could possibly turn worse if more problems are discovered. GM builds some fantastic vehicles, but this is nonetheless concerning for its future. Especially after the bad taste in taxpayer’s mouths after the bailouts…
But my point is these GM recalls are NOT turning people away (in significant numbers) and are not “worse” in terms of buying behavior impact. The Escape is a case in point — it has had more recalls than any vehicle than I can remember. I know it’s a new generation, but it’s still incredibly high and I would love to see if anyone can show a vehicle produced in the last 5 years that has had more recalls.
All that said, sales are still at a record high for the Escape. That’s b/c it is hard today to find an automaker that isn’t doing literally millions of recalls in the past year or two. I mean where are you going to go – Toyota? Chrysler? Ford? Nissan? All have had millions.
And it is actually better that GMs recalls are affecting Cobalts, Saturns, Pontiacs (in the main) — a new car buyer doesn’t really care about recalls of 5-10 year old products. When GM announced increased sales last months, they and many auto analysts said exactly that.
Until now, my three Pontiacs were not affected. Never had any problem with them.
I agree that the Escape has been a turd for Ford when it comes to reliability but just look a the sheer magnitude of all these GM recalls. It encompasses so many model years, and GM proves it only builds junk still today, after the bailout. This is almost unbelievable. Now the tie rod ends need to be replaced on the new Silverado / Sierra / Tahoe which haven’t even been on the road a year yet. That was just about the only part left that wasn’t covered the previous umpteen recalls on these rigs. I swear the only time engineers drove these shit boxes was for the commercials. Millions of test miles my ass.
Where is our resident GM apologist Scott? Probably at the dealer getting his POSs fixed. Or the ignition on his HHR finally failed at highway speeds, the steering locked, and he went into the ditch. With his luck he probably had hitch a ride home in a Ford Tempo. Scott, where are you? We need you in these difficult times. Tell us again how great the General is.
The HHR is just grand and not having a single issue in 5 years.
Sorry no apologies just the truth and you just can handle the F in Truth! LOL!
Many of these issues normally would have been for better or worse a TSB a couple years ago. But coming off the over played ignition issue they will call in anything that even looks wrong.
Note too the other MFG are also watching and reacting as they are also calling in small issues that normally would not have been called in.
This will be a big recall year for all MFG because they all are afraid of being the next target for the media. They have been making the round to all of them in the last couple years.
This is what happens when you build vehicles to break instead of building them to last like they did decades ago. Just their way of trying to wring more money out of you. Bet they are kicking themselves over making these modules TOO weak.
GM = INFERIOR QUALITY. We will NEVER BUY GM Again. This company is full of crooks & liars & cheats. see GM File no.’s 71-1305208758 and 71-1303056124 and 71-1302902747. They took us for over $1,000 for a fix that needs fixing AGAIN. They didn’t offer to CLEAN it, or Repair it, they want to pick our pockets for another $1,000+. We called GM Executive Assistants (Crooks, LIARS & Thieves) They Failed to offer any Good Faith Effort at a problem resolution. GM got away with MURDERING innocent people because GM puts profit before people’s lives. These truths are believed. – Dr. Kenneth Tennant [email protected]
Was it in warranty when the repair was done? It does not sound like it.
If it was out of warranty you paid an independent dealer for the work and need to work with them.
And per your report the part lasted 3 years. This seems well beyond any part warranty but I could be wrong about that.
How unfortunate. I thought the Malibu/>G6</Aura taillight issue was already recalled? However, this does make sense as GM has one of the newest lineups in the industry and with that comes first year mistakes.
All parts and components proudly manufactured and assembled with UAW QUALITY……. Well, I think from a Corporate and Union standpoint… GM and the UAW is failing miserably across the board.
Let me inject a bit of common sense to this discussion. “2.7 Million More Vehicles Recalled” yet the ONLY reason we are aware of these issues is due to the general news outlets and articles like these.
Think about it….
IF the cars were so “dangerous” or “inferior” 2.7million owners would be screaming bloody murder in the streets. Instead 99% of them were in fact very satisfied with their purchase and are just finding out their car is POTENTIALLY defective.
It’s great that they are rectifying a POTENTIAL problem. A recall is nothing more, nothing less.
Now there is a concept Common Sense!
Thank you for injecting this but the shame is some people have it and as we can see here some Doctors can lack it. I guess we can hope it is an honorary degree.
People have DIED because GM refused to recall. Can’t you read ? Now to save face, GM is using PR to appear as if they care ? Ever hear of Murphy’s law ? Your mentality is why innocent people die. GM produces INFERIOR QUALITY products, services and leadership. GM puts Profits before people. GM got away with murder and continues it’s course of thievery. see GM file 71-1305208758 and 71-1302902747 and 71-1303056124. GM = Crappy Cars
“SCREEMING BLOODY MURDER”? Like the dead victims of GM’s greed ?
Sensationalize much?
Personally I think most of this is BS, cars break. It seems like someone at GM wants to show how much they are changing things. All I drive are GM products, we have 7 vehicles and I haven’t had one of these problems. I keep cars a long time so I would think I would have more problems than normal. With so many vehicles available they tend to sit more than normal and you would expect that to cause greater problems than one driven every day.
The “Authorized” (By GM) GM Service Centers take their General Marching (GM) Orders from GM. GM engineers use “Planned Obsolesence” aka “Quality CONTROL” in others words, they design things NOT to last. American school students are NOT falling “Behind” in Math etc. It is the GREED of the corporations that is Out of Control. The FACT remains: GM’s “Executive Assistants” have yet to return my calls. They promised to do it by yesterday. That NEVER HAPPENED! WHY ? BECAUSE You CAN NOT TRUST GM. They failed to negotiate a Fair Good Faith Problem Resolution because GM is CORRUPT from HEAD to Toe. NO WAY a $1,000 fix should not last more than three years. IF the THROTTLE BODY went bad, they should have offered to CLEAN it, NOT REPLACE it. IF it needed to be replaced, it was because it was an INFERIOR QUALITY part, or it was sabbotaged at the service ceneter where GM’s “Authorized” technicians had removed it twice (2x) in the past few months. ??? GM = INFERIOR QUALITY Parts, Service, “Leadership.” NO MORE GM.
Let me try this a different way.
I buy a GE fridge.
After the fridge warranty is out the ice maker quits.
I have a GE Authorized service man fix it.
3 years later the ice maker quits, 2.5 years out of warranty of the ice maker.
Do you seriously think GE will come in and fix it?
I will say you do have a lot of issues with a lot of people. US Government, Homeland security, State of Iowa, fired from your bank, Lee Enterprises. Crap, sure am glad I do not have your issues. No wonder you are pissed off. And it seems you like this because you put your phone number on most of them.
Best to leave this one alone as he is crazy.
We know for sure because his mother had him tested.
When Corporate Greed is at the helm, the quality of life diminishes. Obviously GM has put profit before people. This institutional culture of corruption cannot be re-tooled over night. It will take another generation. As for me, I will shop elsewhere.
Don’t fool yourself that others are much better. Generally they all have done this and some will do it again.
Odds are GM will be one of the cleanest corporations from this point forward as they are the one being watched and trying to clean up their image.
the guy who just got a speeding ticket often is the one that will be doing the speed limit for a good while after getting caught.
You must be very young and don’t know much about the history of the automotive industry. The progress that has been made in cars since the 50’s is unbelievable. People traded cars after 2 or 3 years because they were at the point they needed major repairs. Technology now gives us cars that easily last 10 years with minor repairs along the way. In addition fuel economy has trippled. I think you must live in a fantacy land.
I will give you a thumbs up on that.
I can remember the cars of the 70’s that you were lucky you did not have a rust hole in it in less than 3 years.
My Dad had a 57 Ford that had a hole in the floor by 1960 and so he traded it off for a new car when the battery died.
Oil, Tires, Brakes overall life of many parts has really changed in the last 20 years.
In the 60’s Tires were good for maybe 20,000 and that is not counting all the flats they used to get.
The 70’s exhaust systems would last 3-5 years depending where you lived. Today my 1985 Pontiac is still on the original exhaust.
In the 80’s CV joints were due to fail in many cars by 60K miles.
I could list so many other issues.
Just look in the old magazines of the 30″ and 40’s as they advertised piston rings like they do oil filters today. It was very common to do a ring job well before 100,000 miles.
A lot of GM’s past money issues and part issues were not about greed but survival. Many people really have no clue how bad off GM has been since the early 80’s. While they tired to cover it up it has been since learned they were in very poor shape for a long time. Much of the money issues came from poor ideas and management in the 80’s-90’s that really emptied the accounts.
Once the money was gone then it was time to cheap up on development. Add to this there was a faction inside GM that tried to cheap out on the cars to increase profits to fit their goals.
Case in point he Cruze as Lutz points out in his book was all about giving the customer a little more than the other cars in class. The formula worked but yet there were those who said the car is selling so good it need things cut back on it as we put too much in it.
As he pointed out it is like a Restaurant thinking that if they have reservations 3 weeks ahead that is a sign they are spending too much on the food and should cut back.
For the most part this kind of thinking is in the past at GM now. But there are times some still try to bring this up but now they at least are in the minority.
I know everyone has opinions on GM on the web but so few really know much of the struggle inside GM and the many mistakes. This is why book like the one Lutz did and even the John Delorean book are valuable as it brings insight to things most on the web have no clue about.
GM is a large company and has more good employees than bad. They are coming off a spell of some real screw ups like Roger Smith that put them on the path of failure. Today things have changed but it takes time to repair the ship and to pay for past sins.
This is not just GM but many companies all have had these times but most are not in the media as much.
Did they have “poor management” decisions in the 80’s? Somewhat, but mostly what happened is the Japanese came into this country with the small cars they had been building for a long time for there own country. They knew how to build them cheaply and had a much lower manufacturing cost due to the US UAW. Domestics never had a chance. They tried to reduce cost but it was a downward spiral.
The competition was forced to move their plants to the US and they used hourly’s at half the cost. 30 years later there were only 3 companies left and they ALL were ready to go out of business. It took major debt reduction and hourly wage/benefit reduction to make the playing field equal. Now they are profitable. They can afford to put more content in their vehicles and compete.
We will see if this is enough to compete in the long run.
Read Lutz book and you will see how the poor management at GM in the 80’s really was.
Don’t get me wrong but there were some real idiots there and they did some things that puzzled many in the auto industry.
Car Guys vs. Bean Counters is a must read by anyone even with a slight interest in GM. It tells the story of the bad culture and how I the last 5+ years it has been set on a new path.
When you read some of the things they did it is puzzling how anyone at the top could have made some of these calls. Losh, Smith and a few others really jacked the place up pretty good.
Remember the first FWD Cadillac’s. You know why they were so stubby? They did not get enough MPG so they demanded the cars be shortened up. This lead to poor sales and the longer improved versions were the cars the engineers and designers first did and wanted in the first place. How much money was lost there and this was just one example.
Roger Smith said everything had to be FWD but the Corvette and Camaro. Well they are still working to undo that one and we know how that worked out.
While the Asians did not make it easy on GM the worst enemy GM had was it’s management. GM did more damage to them selves and to each division internally.
Did you know for years back then Chevy was the only GM car allowed to have 5 spokes in the wheels?
Did you know Lutz asked why GM could not do class leading panel gaps. The reason was the engineers were not told to do it and not allowed to do it on their own. A couple hundred thousand and a few months the panels on the next new model was class leading on the 08 Malibu.
Little silly things like this compounded.
One person was asked by GM to come from Chrysler to help fix their cars. He said no as he looked at the coming cars and said they were worse than the Aztek. Note Lutz had to fix the 04 GP as it was horrid and the Lacrosse was delayed a year because it had to be fixed as it was so bad. Even then there were limits to how far he could take it with the old hard points and little time.
GM had people that were part of the problem and there were people not part of the problem. today the majority are people that were not part of the problem. As time goes more of the problem people are going away.
I love GM but in the 70’s-early 2000’s they were in a management death spiral.
Yes I know. I was there. Lacrosse was my car when we delayed it because we were allowed to upgrade the content. Lutz was a godsend to us.
Why was the Cadillac shortened? To compete with the smaller Japanese cars mpg. We were getting killed. Was this “poor management decisions ” or a last gasp to try and stop the downward sales spiral.
It’s easy to see the solutions when your looking back at history.
Well from where I was sitting the Cadillac was a major mistake as all the MPG in the world will not help poor styling.
According to Lutz there were mandates and goal within GM to meet for various things like, budget, MPG and other sales. Many would do anything to meet these goals to not get in trouble even if they knew what they were doing was wrong for the car.
Lutz used the story of a refresh of a car when he got there that he asked the manager if the car would look better if the widow surrounds were in chrome. The manager said yes they would but they would put him over on his budget and he would get a bad mark on his review.
Lutz said would the car not look better and sell better with them and he said yes. Then he asked would you rather take a hit for going a little over budget to make the car a success in sales than to meet your budget and be a flop on the market?
The car was the Impala and it got the chrome and ended up selling very well and made a good profit for GM.
Now I do not fully blame the manager of the Impala. He had a choice but those who put this system in place should have made it to let him do what was best for the product to succeed in the market.
The book is very eye opening to the fouled toxic culture they had then.
My Great Uncle was a retired executive from GMC. He was of the Sloan era and kept in touch up till his death in the 80’s. I loved him greatly and he taught me much about GM. But I could see he was one of those who were from the old School and he never liked change or anything that went against the system even if it was wrong. This mentality carried over and hurt GM much. Then in the 80’s when they panicked they made a lot of wrong choices through this time.
May folks wanted to run Rick Wagoner out on a rail. Well he did get some things wrong but a lot of what he did is what has set GM on the right track today. Admitting he needed a strong product guy like Lutz took some balls at GM. Also before the bankruptcy and in his final days he pumped a lot of the money they had into new product that once they got through the bail out they could have new product with in a year vs. 5 years like Chrysler.
Rick was handed a bag of S*$T and a system resistant to change and today much of the new culture is due to the decisions he made.
Lutz points out in his book the change in culture. I have heard it from other too at GM how things are much better than they ever had it before.
One drivetrain engineer told me Lutz pretty much told them to do what they needed to do in making the best and powerful engines they could and he would have their back.
I see Mark today taking much of what Bob started and keeping it going. Same with Mary as she is working to shake out the old demons that want to taken GM back to where they were. This ignition deal may be what she needs to remove what is left of them.
I have seen a massive change just since Lutz arrived in many areas of GM. Like I have said from the start it was going to take GM 10 years to get where they needed to be and then grow from there post Bail Out. I think they will be on their way if there are no more major economic melt downs.
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