G.M. Recall Total in 2014 Reaches 4.8 Million


General Motors announced on Saturday morning that it was recalling 490,000 trucks and 172,000 compact cars, meaning the automaker has now recalled about 4.8 million vehicles in the United States during the first three months of the year. That is about six times the number of vehicles it recalled in all of 2013.
This year’s recalls involve many of G.M.’s most popular and best-known models.
The recall announced on Saturday morning covers the 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 and GMC Sierra 1500 pickups, as well as the 2015 Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe and the GMC Yukon and Yukon XL with six-speed automatic transmissions. G.M. said a loose fitting for the transmission’s oil cooler line could allow oil leaks and possibly lead to fires. The automaker said it was aware of three fires but no injuries linked to the defect, and officials decided to recall the vehicles within a week of learning of the problem, said Alan Adler, a G.M. spokesman.
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The compact cars being recalled are the 2013-14 Cruze models with 1.4 liter four-cylinder engines. G.M. said the right-front axle half-shaft could break, cutting power to the front wheels, although the engine would continue to run and the steering and brakes would still function. The company said it was aware of several dozen episodes but was not aware of any crashes or injuries related to the problem.
This year started well for General Motors. It had emerged from bankruptcy and had a new chief executive, Mary T. Barra, the first woman to become the head of a major automaker. It had introduced a series of well-received vehicles, including from the Cadillac CTS and the Chevrolet Silverado.
But then came seven major recalls, the most prominent one involving a defect with the ignition switch on the company’s compact cars, including theChevrolet Cobalt, that has been linked to 13 deaths. The automaker expanded that recall on Friday when it added about 971,000 of the compact cars from later model years, including about 824,000 in the United States. The wider recall was needed, G.M. said, to find about 90,000 defective ignition switches installed as replacement parts on the newer vehicles.
The expanded recall now includes six models: 2005-10 Cobalts, 2006-10 Pontiac Solstices, 2007-10 Pontiac G5s and Saturn Skys, 2006-11 Chevrolet HHRs and 2003-7 Saturn Ions.
Having so many recalls, particularly in such a short period of time, is a problem for General Motors, which is still trying rebuild its reputation and is more vulnerable than an automaker like Toyota, said Kevin Lane Keller, a professor of marketing at Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.
“One of the advantages of having a strong brand is that it helps you weather a crisis more easily,” he said.
G.M. has recalled about 2.5 million of its small cars, including 2.2 million in the United States. The automaker has acknowledged that it knew about the defective ignition switches for more than a decade but did not recall the vehicles. That has prompted governmental investigations, including a congressional inquiry that will start on Tuesday with Ms. Barra scheduled to testify.
On Friday, the automaker also said it was aware of a 13th death related to the faulty ignition switches. It said the crash involved a 2007 Cobalt and occurred in Quebec, Canada.
G.M. recalled about 758,000 vehicles in the United States in 2013, ninth among automakers, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Toyota was first, with about 5.3 million vehicles, followed by Chrysler with 4.7 million and Honda with almost 2.8 million.

 

They can't have my Monte. How many cars recalled were made in Oshawa? 0. Great track record out of that factory

 

Mines been in the shop too long already this season

She has given me no real issues in 8 years.

 

I beg to differ...
at least for us V-6 guys... the uims/lims have been a biggie as well as the elbows...

I would have at least liked to see a recall for those issues...

Brent...
You do know...
all our Montes were built in Oshawa...

So much for the track record... whoopsie..... lol

 

Hi Member's,
I think American Auto Companies should be able to warrant their products like the Koreans & Japanese Auto Companies. What do you think ?

Why can't American Auto Companies give a 10yr 100K Warranty ? ? ? Don't they believe in their products ?

I think every car produced should be able to be trouble 'free (if maintained) at least for 10 yrs & 100K + years.

I've read several posts on ignition switch problems on the Monte Carlo, + intake gasket + (U-Bend pipe) >Only good 4 smoking something (LOL)

New Vehicles are a major investment to purchase & keep on the roads + it seems part prices are increasing every time I go to the part stores

I think every company should stand by & believe in the products they are selling to their consumers. That's all from my tired night shift mind (lol) >(Yes, I do have a mind ?) > I think

Thanks member's for your post & contributions & keeping our forum active/fun/informative

 

I think most LIM/UIM/Elbow/Wheel Hub failures on the v6 Montes are prone to happen at about 100K miles. When you put that in perspective, I have trouble feeling that is recall worthy. You got 100K miles out of the parts, some components can only be engineered to last so long. Of course, we would like to see parts with a longer life span and many of us have learned of better constructed parts that deliver those longer lifespans.

Rather then a recall, in respect to the LIM/UIM/Elbows/Wheel Hubs, I wish GM would have vested more effort into looking at those parts and trying to improve them in later years (obviously, that is a dead issue now).

But what I feel should be a recall (at least on the '00-'06 Montes and Impalas), the rear defrosters!!! How many people have had or still do have problems with the defroster? Tabs that come of the glass, hidden circuit breaker that is poorly documented ('00-'05 models), a connector in a harness that is under rated and eventually burns out ('06-'07 models)??? And I'm sure their are more issues.
Rear defrosters are not NEW to cars. Why is it that seems to not just be a common problem with these, but one of the biggest pains in the butt to resolve?
There's a recall item I think should have been opened years ago.

 

My car (06 SS), had a recall for a power steering hose.
Apparently the high pressure hose could crack and leak in cold climate.
at about 1 yr old, I made apt and took it in for the recall. (I don't remember even looking at what they did).

Later, they fixed steering shaft under warrantee.

Years later, when I got the steering rack changed, the main hose was bad, slow leak.
I suspect the dealer replaced the wrong hose during the recall. But hard to complain 6 years later.

Squeaking noise in steering rack fixed, with new rack and new hose.