GM recalling 636,000 mid-sized SUV's

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DETROIT — General Motors Corp. (GM) said Monday it will recall about 636,0000 mid-size sport utility vehicles, its second major recall in four days.

GM, the world's largest automaker, said there had been two reports of crashes related to electronics that could short-circuit when water leaks into a wiper module. No injuries or fatalities were reported from those two crashes, GM said.

The recall includes certain model year 2002 and 2003 Chevrolet TrailBlazer (search) and TrailBlazer EXT, GMC Envoy (search) and Envoy XL, and Oldsmobile Bravada (search) SUV models as well as some Isuzu Motors Ltd. Ascenders (search), which GM builds, GM said in a statement.

Of the total, about 580,000 are in the United States and some 31,000 are in Canada.

GM said dealers will patch a vent hole in the windshield wiper module and inspect a circuit board and electrical connector in the area for water intrusion and corrosion.

GM will notify owners beginning in the third quarter this year, and dealers will fix the vehicles at no charge.

GM spokesman Jim Schell said the reason for the delay is the automaker has to test the materials and adhesives used to fix the problem. Owners should have their vehicles checked and serviced sooner if they are experiencing wiper problems.

Last Friday, GM recalled about 1.8 million cars to fix an electrical defect that can spark fires in the steering column following 80 reports of problems. The automaker said that it had no reports of injuries or fatalities.
 
Thankfully noone has been killed yet. But, those are potentially pretty dangerous. :eek:
 
1.8 million Friday and another 600,000+ this week? Unreal and dangerous. Relatively minor bugs but it makes you wonder where in the hell the quality control people were? Bow: any idea what the financial consequences to this will be? Repairing roughly 2.5 million vehicles had to be a costly deal.(Understatement of the day)
 
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The money side of the latest recall will not be a real big hit to GM as they are repairing and inspecting and not really replacing any parts. Part replacement and labor cost is what drives up the recall costs. I do know when Ford went through the Firestone recall I do not remember the exact dollar figure but I do remember it ended up in the billions. When you are talking 5 brand new tires on every Explorer and Expedition and most F-150's man that was a big hit to Ford Motor Company. But one thing you can count on, from every automaker, the price of this recall was already added into the price and paid for by the customer at the time of purchase.
 
I just heard on the radio Ford is recalling a bunch of LTDs. They could go as far back as '92. (Rear axle problems.)
 
Originally posted by bowtie@Feb 10 2004, 10:07 PM
The money side of the latest recall will not be a real big hit to GM as they are repairing and inspecting and not really replacing any parts. Part replacement and labor cost is what drives up the recall costs. I do know when Ford went through the Firestone recall I do not remember the exact dollar figure but I do remember it ended up in the billions. When you are talking 5 brand new tires on every Explorer and Expedition and most F-150's man that was a big hit to Ford Motor Company. But one thing you can count on, from every automaker, the price of this recall was already added into the price and paid for by the customer at the time of purchase.
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The funny thing about that recall was that Bridgestone-Firestone really didn't take much of a financial hit in that as it turned out. The japanese (Bridgestone) side of the company made a very large amount of money during that time and basically used the loss on the "Americas Holdings" side as a tax write-off.
 
You know whats funny, the current Chairman of Ford Motor Company, born in 1925, William Clay Ford is married To Martha Firestone of the Harvey Firestone family, so the family ties run deep. Not only Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone being good friends and business associates the Ford and Firestones were in-laws. I bet that made for a strange Thanksgiving dinner after the recall and the two businesses cut ties. :lol:
 
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