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GM Recalls Another 1.5 Million Cars; Halts Sales Until "Solution" Completed
General Motors is in trouble. On the heels of a 1.3 million car recall over fault ignition switches (that allegedly caused 12 deaths and could have been fixed with a $1 part), the bailed-out car maker has announced it will take a $300 million charge in Q1 to cover costs associated with this and 3 new recalls covering an additional 1.5 million cars. As Reuters reports, unsold vehicles will be placed on a stop-delivery until development of a solution has been completed. Why is this such a problem? Because GM's channel-stuffed dealer inventory is already at all-time record highs as the entire industry projected the sales to continue ad infinitum and inventory-to-sales surged to near-record highs.
General Motors Co. said it would take a $300 million first-quarter charge to cover costs associated with its faulty ignition switch recall and three new recalls announced Monday covering about 1.5 million different vehicles.
The auto maker recalled 1.18 million sport-utility vehicles with model years dating back as far as 2008 over seat air bag issues. The air bags may not deploy because of a wiring problem. Separately, the auto maker also is recalling 63,900 of a Cadillac model and 303,000 vans.
The announcement comes as GM begins the process of offering repairs to 1.3 million vehicle owners in the U.S. who are affected by a faulty ignition switch recall GM announced in February. The auto maker is in the midst of answering lawmakers and federal authorities over why it took GM nearly a decade to initiate that recall. The switches have been linked to 12 deaths.
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On Friday, the Detroit automaker was hit with what appeared to be the first lawsuit related to the ignition-switch recall, as customers claimed their vehicles lost value because of the ignition switch problems. The proposed class action was filed in a Texas federal court.
And all this as inventories surge to record highs...
This was an increase from the 780,140 in January and is the largest ever channel stuffing print yet recorded by the post-bankruptcy GM in history.
Good luck liquidating all that pent up inventory without major incentives and margin crushing price reductions for the everyone in the distribution chain.
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Honda did a 1m recall this weekend too.
Honda recalling Odyssey minivans due to fire risk:
http://www.latimes.com/business/autos/la-fi-hy-autos-honda-recall-odyssey-minivans-20140317,0,7338708.story#ixzz2wFPpBXBE
If you need a new vehicle and plan on buying one from any of the largest 6 global manufacturers, wait a while longer if you are able to - the longer you wait, the more your patience will be rewarded.
A little industry insider birdie has leaked an internal memo on a trade group forum (paywall) dealing with real time inventory, and let's just suffice it to state that the channels are being stuffed to the extreme, and that manufacturers from GM to Honda to Hyundai, VW and Ford are going to have to make some decisions quickly about whether to idle assembly lines for extraordinary periods.
was driving around yesterday and noticed at least a hundred brand new cars with stickers, parked in an all but abandoned furniture store parking lot, miles away from any car dealer. likely additional evidence of epic channel stuffing.
Can I interest you in 0% APR + 10K 'cashback' + a free tank of gas? Don't mind the accelerator - it gets stuck sometimes. Totally within spec.
Throw in a gun and a case of ammo or two and I might bite.
Old: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/buy-truck-free-ak-47/story?id=12184936
3 strikes and ur OUT!
It's just a good thing that most of those cars are still on the dealer's lots.
I just saw that too... Almost 200 new stickered cars and trucks in the parking lot of a car dealership that has been closed at least six years. The dealership is still closed; weeds had been growing up through the pavement cracks; but now the lot is filled to capacity; down the sides and around back. It had been two months since I had passed that way, the lot was completely empty as per the half-decade-plus normal at that time.
Every dealer now has at least one satellite lot. It's the only thing keeping the local bowling alley afloat.
I'm pretty sure anytime a new restaurant opens up, the nearest car dealer starts salivating about having a new parking lot to rent in six months.
A drive past my local ginormous Toyota dealer bears out exactly what you say.
The place is the size of a football field, and every square inch is packed with massively overpriced, bloated cars.
Obama should print more money, then hand it out to everyone and we can buy all the cars from the corporations and then we can all drive around in circles and that will create jobs and then we will have achieved economic prorperity once again and we'll all be rich!
The last time they tried that gas nearly doubled I think. I suppose if we had cars and couldn't afford the gas we'd at least have somewhere to live when the house was repossessed.
The only other other things to do is sell off the SPR at $20.00 a barrel, stop exporting oil and gas and lower our pump price to 39.9.
It makes as much sense as anything else he does.
Pfft. You can get a used double-wide cheaper; and you get an indoor sh*tter included free.
Oh, this is great for GM. Now they don't have to worry about channel stuffing any more. They can simply keep all those extra cars at the factory, especially since there is probably no space at dealerships any more. And when asked why there are millions of cars sitting on lots and at their factories, they can just say, "We're being prudent to make sure we have safe vehicles."
Someone must have thought this shit up so they can save GM AND allow for a Keynesian wet dream!!!
There is definitely going to be some channel stuffing happening.
Cash for Clunkers II. Just add an extra two steps at the end of the assembly line; one station fills the new vehicle gas tank with sand and runs the engine until it freezes up; then the next station crushes the vehicle.
Full Employment for all!
GM needs to roll over.
They're already dead.
I'm getting a large SUV rental in Myrtle Beach. The agent at Budget told me I'll probably get a Tahoe.
I asked him......'did you have anything else?'
That's late justice. During the financial crisis the MSM pushed the lie about dangerous Toyotas, accelerating on their own - while GM (Government Motors) was falling into an abyss.
Later this proved a typical lie to support US business. Since then, when Japanese manufacturers that really care about quality make recalls, the MSM is always reporting about it. They even try to turn this excellent behaviour into something bad, an indication of bad quality. That most recalls are not even necessary (I'm talking about Toyota) and are only a result of the high quality standards, the sheeple shall never know.
But when GM drivers die like flies in US cars with EXTREME safety problems, then they keep very silent - all over the world, btw.
Yes, we can copy the Japanese manufacturing / logisitcs techniques and technology, but Total Quality Management is harder to nail down.
yes, we can copy the very thing that we taught to the Japanese
but somehow forgot to do ourselves
TQM involves a lot of dedication and pride from the workers -- I don't think those are UAW values.
"Honda did a 1m recall this weekend too."
So what....I don't recall Honda buttfucking bondholders while getting a taxpayer bailout to bail out the union pension plan.
Not only that, I had the local Honda dealer calling repeatedly to get my recall work done.
On an 11 year old Civic.
Broken window theory.
Might as well just rename it the parable of Cash For Clunkers.
Government Motors probably didn't want to issue a recall while the US taxpayers still owned shares in the company because they would lose value. Once the shares were sold, it became OK to consider the poor people who are injured or dead from the crappy product. It's all about insider trading.
sounds like a felony
Silly rabbit. Laws are for kids.
As it happens channel stuffing is also mentioned in this 'must read' article on KWN:
"Today a man who has been involved in the financial markets for 50 years spoke warned King World News readers that the West is controlling markets in order to keep confidence from collapsing. He also discussed gold, and the dangerous situation facing China, Russia, and Ukraine. Below is what John Embry had to say." continue reading
I wonder how the embry's and a few others like being called 50 year vets in their "must reads"-just asking.
Haulting deliveries should do wonders for that inventory backlog.
I smell "rebate technology" being heavily utlized in the 2nd quarter.
On the positive side, most of the cars that need the $1 part are already sitting on dealers' lots, so it should be easy to find them.
Properly Functioning Solenoids™. Ask for them by name.
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Bullish. Bitchez.
So, the cars could easily turn themselves off while under way, and the GM executive suite knew about it years in advance of the recall.
After being caught, they won't even sell new cars until it's fixed because it is so serious?
WHY IS THERE NO CRIMINAL LIABILITY FOR THOSE EXECUTIVES IN THE RESULTING DEATHS?
If these profiteering motherfuckers spent 15 years in Club Fed getting fudge-packed by Bubba on a daily basis, do you think there would ever be this sort of problem again?
Can't. Jails too full. You'd have to release a bunch of Joe Schmoes who happened to wander through a DUI checkpoint a couple ticks over the legal limit in order to make room for them. And THAT'S never going to happen, obviously.
You mean those DUI checkpoints that are funded by Uncle Sugar, which allow all of those brave police officers to earn overtime for harrassing innocent people, all so they can pad their average salary for their final three years before retiring on a bloated pension?
Yep, those will never go away. Think of the children!
Also, you may need to steer with the volume knob on the stereo while you wait for the vehicle to roll to a stop.
Ironic..... Seems to me that Everyman had a job related to this subject matter.
But GM has the 1st female CEO in car industry ever ! She has apologized....WTF else do you want ?
Sign up for Obamacare and get a free GM vehicle. Problem(s) solved.......
When the wheels are about to fall off. Put a girl in charge.
/S.
Hey, at least she's white!
cough cough...federal reserve...cough
A good wife, makes a good husband.
It's the weather!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GM has become the modern day Trabant.
this is exactly why GM has shtty resale value. They overproduce to keep profits high and then offer money losing incentives to get rid of them.
side note: I know 2 guys that bought Dodge Rams late last year. Both were hemmified 4x4s, neither had leather. One paid 28k the other 44k(sticker). The 44k guy taked with the 28k guy and said "you a fukking liar and you know it".
Guess which guy had the college degree? if you said the clown that paid 44k, your right!! he is "EDJUMACATED".
if you absolutely positively have to buy new...
- pick a vehicle that has very few if any option choices; that means what you want will most likely be on the lot already
- find out msrp and invoice for what you want; calculate the holdback at 3% of msrp and subtract that result from invoice
- figure out how much you have to spend ahead of time; this will be a combo of estimated sale value of your current ride (if any) and the remainder needed to cover how much you're willing to spend; if you can, use cash only for the remainder
- if you must do financing, get it done ahead of time for the amount needed to cover what you're willing to spend (which equals sale value of current ride + cash down + amount financed)
- wait for end of month *and* end of quarter before talking to the various internet sales reps (this is key; you can go to a stealership and look but do NOT deal with the reps on the lot unless and only if they're willing to let you walk to the on-line rep)
- make an offer on what you want to buy that's around 1 to 2% less than the money you actually have available to spend (see above for that number); if you're caught haggling do NOT go higher than your number under any circumstances
- work with internet reps until you find one that will at least sell to you for what you want to spend; if you find one right off the bat that is willing to sell for what you are willing to spend minus 2%, stop right there and go back and redo your homework on msrp, invoice, and holdback because you've started off too high (otherwise they won't jump on it immediately); if you find yourself haggling in the window between "willing - 2%" and "willing" then odds are good you're in the ballpark
if you play things right you can shave as much as 20% off the advertised MSRP of a brand new shiny car
if you're buying used, find a wholesale auction buddy and pay them a fee to find what you want... you won't do better on used than that
Dealers probably going to okay here. When people bring thier cars in for warranty work (assuming they have a few miles on them) the dealers are bound to sell lots of folks on other services (rotating door handles, blinker fluid, etc.).
Bahh! Door handles only need rotated every 75,000 miles. Though my neighbor's ford F150's radio stopped working. He took it into the dealership and they had to use an entire tube of frequency grease to get it working again. It cost him $500 bucks!
my car was making a strange noise last month, they replaced the piston return springs for only $1,200
In all seriousness, many of these shops are getting desperate. I've had a mechanic try to screw me for a little job by keeping my car overnight so he could charge me an overnight fee. I ended up having a small welding job done by a local guy for 1/3 the price.
I also had a dentist recently try to say my wife and I had 4 -5 cavities each that didn't actually exist. Fraud is getting rampant. People are getting desperate.
After the well guy socked me for $240 for a control box($50) and pressure switch($20) and the problem turned out to be a short in the breaker panel, I get everything in writing with no 'estimates'. A/C guy asked for 16 hours to install two mini-wall units that are designed to take about an hour to install and come pre-pressurized, preformed piping, etc. I only need him for warranty purposes so 16 hours is way too rich as it's almost as much as both of the units combined. I know he's got overhead but I'm not supporting him single-handedly(or so it seems).
My dentist sold his practice and moved to NC. I went to the lady who bought his practice and she started recommending all this work and night guards and crap that the other guy never mentioned. I'm 40 and just need my teeth to last and not be missing, I'm not looking for an acting job.
Clearly she needed to pay for that new practice. I won't be going back.
Hope my dentist starting buying gold instead of all of the empty office space around him.
judging by the market reaction ... it was "better than expected".
I'll give you a channel stuffing you won't forget!!!
Mary Barra, CEO
General Motors
Channel Stuffing Bitchez
We should just crush all these stuffed cars, a la Clark Griswald's trade-in. Create a new Reliable Transportation Administration™ agency to credit the car dealership and to keep the new cars rolling in. You see, it doesn't matter if anyone actually uses the car, the economy benfits from the production of the car. It's kinda like the Budesnbank saying "it doesn't matter if the gold is there or not- it's on the ledger as being there so it's there".
Actually they said, "The Bundesbank is, of course, quite right in its opinion of the value of the examinations. In reality, it does not matter one bit whether the Federal Reserve Bank of New York actually has the German central bank's gold or whether the gold is pure. As long as the Fed says it is there, it is as good as there for all practical purposes to which it might be put. It can be sold, leased out, used as collateral, employed to extinguish liabilities and counted as bank capital just the same whether it exists or not.
The actual presence of the gold wouldn't make a lick of difference unless, say, Germany's central bank decided it wanted to start using the gold for some practical, non-monetary purpose like making watches."
Does this article have anything to do with the article posted by Pivotfarm titled "Government Waste" located on the upper right of this page?
Two questions:
1. What was the exact date that GM knew of this issue?
2. What was the exact date that US Gov sold its remaining stake in GM?
That would imply that our government knows exactly what it is doing.
Nah, merely that a handful of people understand propoganda.
And the stock is up 1.5% to $34.60. Makes perfect sense in this wonderful land called Amerika!
Unsafe at any speed ... Ralph Nader. Nothing has changed they just have better paint
we can't build a fukkin decent car in the US anymore because all the decent engineers are on on wall street developing fukkin algos to front-run each other!
I just bought a dodge truck and it says "made in Mexico" on the door jamb. Damn sad.
I am sorry to hear of your buyer's remorse. I have a one year old Chevy Cruze. I might have been able to resist, but it had American flags all over the door jam. Vast majority of parts-USA. Final assembly-Lordstown, Ohio. I feel good about the purchase. When I bought it, I believe it had the highest percentage of US parts of any car on the market.
I am delighted with the car. Good mileage, sporty, fairly quick, nice stereo and I can Bluetooth Pandora from my phone onto the excellent sound system. It goes nicely with my American made old beater Ford Ranger.
Don't get me wrong, I love the truck. It just pisses me off that so much has to be made out of the country, even "american made goods". Its impossible in many cases to track down all part's origins. I bought this one used so I suppose there is no big deal, but as an American small business manufacturer, it feels like an uphill slog. When some of the biggest and richest American companies will still buy their consumables from off shore, what are the rest of us supposed to do?
It's quite possible your Cruze had a Chinese-sourced and assembled engine. Last year, the passenger vehicle with the highest content of U.S. parts & labor was the Mazda 6. At least the truck/van/sport-ute with the highest U.S. content was the GMC Savannah.
Great stuff Tyler(s)
You are fucking nailing this!
"If the cost of repairing the vehicles is higher than the potential costs of litigation resulting from the defect, we don't do the recall"
"Which car company do you work for ?"
"GM"
Clearly the taxpayers fault. Bailout time god save GM and Detroit.
this is awesome news.
win for mother earth!!!!
Funny how the Treasury dumped their shares just before all this shit hit the fan.
Looks like the Dealerships that Obama closed turned out to be the lucky ones...
I'm sure munis and other gov'ts will get hefty discounts.
I already see NYC Sanitation with new Chevy Volts replacing Prius. Kind of makes you wonder how often they trash vehicles as their is a lot with many Prius that looks drivable just beat up.
Suing GM because your car lost value from this incident is an oxymoron...
bend over comrades ass rape two is coming!