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GM Announces Another 718K Recalls, Bringing 2014 Total To Nearly 30 Million
It had been almost a month without a GM recall announcement of some sort. So, as many knew was long overdue three weeks into the second half, GM just did what it truly excels in (aside from being bailed out by taxpayers at a massive loss): admit that it had skimped on the quality control and safety check of another 717,950 cars, all of which were new models bult 2010 and later including Camaro, Equinox, Caprice, Regal, Malibu and so on. In other words, all cars built after GM emerged from bankruptcy. This bring the total number of recalls year to date to a ludicrous 29.2 million around the globe, or well over three time the total number of cars sold in the past three years.
The reasons for the recall? Numerous, but some amusing ones stand out:
- A loss of power to a laser welding machine may have resulted in an incomplete weld in the seat hook bracket
- The bolt that secures the height adjuster actuator may become loose or fall out. If the bolt falls out, the seat will move up and down freely because it is no longer attached at the height adjuster
- Steering control can be maintained because the vehicle will revert to manual steering mode, but would require greater driver effort particularly at low vehicle speeds.
- Separation of the lower control arm from the steering knuckle while driving could resulting in loss of steering control
And so on. But aside from the stock miraculously not soaring on this latest batch of great news, we expect that deadbeat GM consumers, armed to the teeth with those subprime loans we reported on over the weekend, will have no problem with the prospect of driving a free and paid for (by the government) car which may just transform into an uncontrollable 2 ton paperweight at 65 mph. Call it the "excitement from instant death risk" option (included free in every car).
Total YTD recalls vs GM car sales in the past three years and historical recalls:
And the full list of GM recalls in 2014 alone, also known in a few years as "Evidence A":
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Can we recall all our manufacturing assembly lines from China? Might be a good excuse to get our equipment back.
I like this recall reason 'Separation of the lower control arm from the steering knuckle while driving could resulting in loss of steering control' it exemplifies the state our nation. Totally out of steering control. Going fast and going to CRASH
BinLaden is dead and GM is alive- well sort of alive
If the free market works so well, then why doesn't GM go bankrupt? Answer that you stupid libertarians. This is obviously just another example of the free market failing. If the government would intevene, there wouldn't be this recall problem. We need MORE government NOW!
Still no where near the number of recalls the F35 has had LOL
You sound like a pleasant person to be around.
"You sound like a pleasant person to be around."
My humor depends greatly on the quality of my company. Anyway, I thought I laid the sarcasm pretty thick.
GM Engineer: "First, I have visions. Then, I have revisions."
Not thick enough for this crowd. Better use the /sarc tag.
Zombie-style alive.
Is it possible to bury GM at sea? Quietly, without any video or photos? Please?
Slo-mo, reverse takeover. Chinese style: Let GM stock go down the tubes, take over cheap.
Ditto for Detroit RE. The Chinese are the biggest RE buyers in the city. Coincidence? I think NOT!
Great geographic location, and inside track to US automotive industry. Especially when the Chinese clean house and start makin/importing Chinese cars.
yet look at the fuckin stock price. Almost $38 a share. This should be a pink slip!!
Treasuries are rallying...sounds likes fine time to issue 100 billion in debt after having thrown all the bondholders under the bus in 2008.
Heck they could probably back by the warranty claims!
Can it get any more Bullish? Krugman is getting a Hardon.
Don't miss your chance to own a piece of shit that will be recalled in 3-5 years. Don't like your wife and want her out of the way? Buying her a Chevy is a great way to speed up the path to making yourself a widow.
Widower. Sorry for the "anal" correction.
total recall. the irony, it burns.
Anyone who owns a GM vehicle, by definition, shows the world they know absolutely nothng about vehicle quality.
Bailout Nation. Epic Fail.
They are big retards like Obama voters aka Democrats. Yeah the GOP-e sucks too.
Truly, you put in an Oscar-winning performance in that movie!
Just give everybody a new car, on the house.
Subsidy? - check. Broken windows? - check. Population reduction? - check. You might have a future at a think tank, my good Merican.
That would put people to work, better than the banksters getting bailed out
GM's been run (down) by the Unions for years
they wrecked Detroit ...it's just a matter of clock watching on this one too
So management had nothing to do with it?
GM was never great but when Obama gave it to the UAW and filled it with govt todies in mgmt - it got exponentially worse.
Dude, you are blaming the Aztec on the unions? Any mgmt team that approved that POS should be tarred & feathered...
The Aztec is a quality product compared to the pieces of shit GM has been pumping out the last 5 years.
That's pretty harsh.
I had a Hertz give me an Aztec at SFO years ago. Only had like 200+ on the odometer and it was ready for bone yard.
But - oh the stylin'!! Trabat meets Astro Van!
Zero down. Zero payments. Zero safety. At least the recall fixes will be easy to accomplish, most of those cars are still stuffed on the dealer's lots.
LOL America you are beyond parody now. It's so sad, because apart from the genocide you were founded on some of you had some nice ideas about free speech and debt free money about 200 years ago...but since 1913 yo've just been another Zionist controlled hellhole like my native UK...poor guys can't even make a car anymore...but at least you've got Tesla... my country is just an island of tax dodging accountants run by a bunch of paedophiles.... at least Obama doesn't fuck kids like Edward Heath and David Cameron do...he might be homosexual but trust me...our former home secretary Leon Brittan was caught raping a 12 year old boy on VHS tape in Dover in 1982 but it was kept under the official secrets act for over 30 years!!!
All the best America...just be thankful you're not run by kiddie fiddlers like the UK ;(
LOL you must be sarcastic, ' you still have TEsla' yeah run by that dual citizen Elon Musk, and have you seen the Tesla burn? I hear it has white phosphorus in the batteries LOL. Also dont forget Tesla lives off of Govt subsidies and loan guarantees just like GM
thanks...
that should make them feel better.
Re: VHS tape in Dover in 1982
This is a lie. Margaret Thatcher, one of the world's greatest free-market conservatives EVER, would never have allowed for such immorality. She would have castrated him, personally, for such transgressions; so obviously, it couldn't have happened!
I'd have given you a Vote Up if you weren't so obsessed with kiddie fiddlers.
What a joke. MF'n taxpayas had to get paid somehow?
I think I saw Michael Keaton in this movie before?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091159/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_53
pods
Looks more like a 'Gang Bang' and we're on the receiving end.
Not actually the worst news for GM. Most of the cars are still sitting on dealer lots, anyhow.
easy to find eh?
I guess it does count as a recall for those sitting on dealer lots, as they've been recorded as "sold." Channel stuffing FTW!
This is their new sales strategy. Bring your old useless piece of shit GM in and exchange it for a new worthless piece of shit GM. Channel unstuffed!!!
I was kinda thinking the same thing actually. "Does this recall include cars
just produced?" How about those currently in production?
Is robot 64327 down again?
Typical management ploy, first blame the union worker, then when he is gone blame the robot.
The problem is and always has been corporate management, that is why this country is going to shit. We have allowed monopolies and too much corporate power to the point where our voices are not heard by the politicians who cater only to corporate handouts
ho, hum.... GM articles are just soooo boring anymore. Need some good news for a change. How 'bout, "New CEO quits", or "GM Board replaces new CEO..."?
Before long they won't even be able to dump this crap on car rental companies for a loss!
If they recalled almost all the cars made since bankruptcy, do we really know they built them at all? Couldn't they be channel stuffing on paper the way the Fed prints money - you know, put out a few physical widgets for show and cook the books on the rest? Perhaps those images of cars on storage lots were all CGI?
Maybe we're gonna get some Obama cars here?
Can I cash out my MYRA for a MYGM without any tax consequences?*
*Physical consequences of owning a Kevorkianesque rolling sarcophagus notwithstanding.
Of course they made them. Investment in malinvestment is a "jobs program."
Keynesian 101.
Or it's a fraud 101, you 'produce' a car, 'grow' GDP, 'increase' sales, the only thing real is the part where moneys stick to somebody's hands in the process.
What's the difference between someone testifying in front of CONgress, and GM? GM recalls everything, those testifying recall nothing.
I was gonna say, one of 'em is General Moochers and the other is General Morons?
Follow up answer is, those testifying (banksters, IRS, et. al.) and GM both fucked the American population and got away with it.
good 1 !...
french joke [Coluche ( very popular comedian assasinated by french state as he was getting in to politics)] ;
c'est quoi la difference entre les oiseaux et les politicians ? - les oiseaux arret de voler de temps en temps.
Good thing they are all still parked on disused runways, rail platforms, and various vacant fields. Should be easy to get them in to be fixed.
You'll know they've finally reached efficiency once they stage them accordingly in advance.
I think the most efficient thing General Motors could do would be to install car crushers at the end of each assembly line.
And change their name to American Scrap Metal.
New GM commercial "Born Free" will be replaced someday with "Recall Free"
OUT (September 2012)
"bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive"IN
Al Qaeda [former] affiliate got a Caliphate and GM is killing Americans.
Lets see what happened in Afghanistan, bunch of villagers in Toyota pickup trucks defeats the army with M1 Abrams tanks made by GM
Perphaps we should be concerned about the M1s being transferred to Afgans to be taken over by Taliban.
# BringBack our Humvees
Q: Who in THEIR RGHT MIND HAS BOUGHT A FUCKING AMERICAN CAR IN THE LAST 30 YEARS??
A: Car Rental Companies. Hertz, ALamo, Dollar etc.
(My parents last "american" car was, yep, no joke, the Pacer! AMC Pacer. My old man got rid of it before the new car smell wore off!
Im not joking. As a kid I didn't understand why....you just got this car dad! True, but not very sad!)
American Motors [Rambler] was allowed to ride off into the sunset [without my taxes]. Personally never owned one.
I've had 7 Ford products in my house during that time, no problems to speak of.
Also had 7 German performance cars that I drove like I stole them .... no problems.
what this all means:
.
more recalls =
more trips to dealer =
sales opportunities to unload new steaming piles of shit from GM unto dumbasses that bought the older model piles of shit =
BULLISH for GM stawk
GM dealerships will resemble ObamaCare health care delays to service treatment.
The Unions call product recalls, job security.
Sorry but they are blaming it on faulty robots now. When they cant blame union workers they blame the robots on the assembly line.
The moron union worker programmed the robot. What is your next excuse to defend theses fucking imbeciles?
I thought all the programming happened in off shore software farms that are not unionized.
Stop blaming the union worker on the assembly lines or the robots now, why dont you ever blame the management?
Unless you are a white collar criminal in the managerial ranks lol.
Wouldn't it be better to keep them in the shop until they are ready for sale rather than to sell them and bring them back later to finish them?
I wouldn't trust them to make paper clips.
*Edit for brevity.
You bought a car build by government labor (unions) from a company that's owned by the federal government, and you're surprised it's a rotten piece of shit?
Good thing for GM 98% of their cars "sold" are sitting in channel-stuffed lots right now. Should be easy to recall.
Does that apply to the F35 and all the other military equipment we make?
F-35 is made by Lockheed with GE/Rolls engines.
The F-35 is the Chevy Vega of fighters.
Are they storing the body panels in the same room with the batteries?
From a "Can do" to a "Can't do" country in 30 years.
Outsource all your key technologies and manufacturing.
Collect Social Security disability and welfare is the government's answer. The US has become a nanny nation.
The next model of GMs will be called the "Recall."
They will include a recall schedule that permits GM to complete manufacturing of them over the next 5 years.
and you can buy the GM limited edition Total Recall. Comes with THREE headlights.
We can just borrow the former GM Saturn Outlook SUV model name, call it Bleak Outlook. The lemmings will love the new branded automobile name.
See, just insert Bleak
Years ago. when I first started selling to GM, we called it Generous Motors. After bankruptcy, and subsequent goverment bailouts , we now call it Generating Malfunctions...something the feds do very well on a daily basis.
Made in the USSA... by the Union corporation.
hey RETARD didnt you see the part where they are blaming robots now. The only union problem is in the Mangement Union you RETARD
Unfortunately a too high % of ZH commenters are still parroting the business school bullshit the has been propogandized nonstop since the beginning of the 80s: Unions=Evil Moochers, Management=Visionary Bold Forward Thinking Innovators (more like Management=Looting Elevated to Art Form)! Seriously the last 35 years should have been evidence enough of ridiculous propaganda this was but nooo....
Not that unions are blameless in the current unfolding disaster but much of of the excesses of the worst unions would not have been possible if not for totally corrupt or incompetent management.
GM is like the old Soviet autos.
412 Moskvich - 4 Door,
Soviet Car
http://www.americandreamcars.com/1976moskvich032307.htm
Gomer Made
The U.S car industry has rewarded incompetence for years! It was next to impossible to have a career with any one of them unless you happened to be the child of a preferred employee. I'm speaking from experience. I worked in a union run warehouse as a temp worker during college in the 90's and i made close to $20 per hour doing braindead work!
Management promoted employees solely based on internal politics irregardless of performance or competence. It was ALL based on poitics!
I had a early 2000's Dodge that had it's electric window break prior to going out of warranty that I had fixed, and it then broke again a few months later!; this is still a known problem!
When life gives you lemons, get a bailout.
Recalls create jobbbs! There!
Recalls for GM have been one of the greatest sales gimmicks ever.
They bring customers into dealerships who are then steered from their old, recalled vehicle into a brand new, zero downpayment car with a 7 year loan.
Just when you think it can't get any more bizaare.
The fun really starts when the customer discovers their new car is of lower quality than the recalled one.
This is just another reason GM should have been allowed to file for bankruptcy.
GM is doing whatever uncle sam says. QUESTION - when they go tits up again, do you think they will get another bailout?
Is there a doubt of some kind?
Hey GM UAW employees, stop down voting ZH comments and get back to work...on your crossword puzzles!
Kyle Bass is long on GM stock .
Coming in 2015 the new Chevy "EZ Autopsy LX" sport coupe. Hybrid option available too!
It's all good.
Goverment Motors, the Trablat of the USA.
GM vehicles are no longer "like a rock". They are more like soft ramen noodles.
FOWARD, comrades!
GM Vehicle + Government owned & operated gas station = Karl Marx wet dream!
dem green shoots keep on shootin'
When MSFT cuts 18,000 jobs, the DOW rallies and Sortero golfs.
When GM cuts 18,000 jobs, Sortero instructs the Treasury to provide a bailout so those 18,000 union jobs can be restored.
GM's Death-Positive Advertising
There is something seriously, seriously insidious / wrong with some of GM's latest advertisements.
Take this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifZpBynl4Q4
the story of the above is that the Corvette Stingray is the nightmare for a car that looks like a Lotus Esprit or other high-end sports car. At :52 the car appears to either be bleeding, as if it has been intimidated to death by the Corvette. It is strange to see deathly imagery associated with automobiles in the first place, let alone during a crisis of safety such as GM has precipitated. Seriously: After GM isn't admitting death numbers (discrepancy of 10:1 by some accounts) they want images of spilled blood in a car ad?
Here's an example of their contest winner: http://www.adweek.com/news/advertising-branding/ad-day-cute-quirky-chevy... There are identical Chevy's in this commercial - one driver appears to precipitate an accident by yanking the steering wheel at :42 -- "GM - a car you can survive an accident in" appears to be the subliminal message here.
And there's one more I saw tonight which features a song that sounds a lot like Aerosmith - and features the lyrics, "... and if I don't make it" or "... and if I die..."... something like that. It's part of the "Find New Roads" campaign. Granted, they have many ads up and I haven't seen them all... But advertising creates culture, and I am only wondering if they are trying to create culture where accidents and deaths are acceptable, validated by the medium of television.
It's easy to say "Don't read too much into it..." but it doens't take much reading into it to see they are obviously playing with ideas that toy with deadly imagery.
GM is also offering people who reurn the cars great financing on tradein/tradeups whatever. Once they get that person back into the lot, the sales job is on. GM was up last quarter precisely on this business. But I'm glad for the workers at GM that they are working. But to what end? In order to ... sell some customer a car... that will need to be recalled...?
It is astonishing that the government can't recall its' bailout of GM when it probably has deadly incidents before the bailouts it did not account for to the government.
Here's from Page 88 of Mary Barra's congressional hearing: Mr. Green has advised Barra his constituent had to go back to the dealer several times but eventually found a skilled mechanic to fix the car that was *not* the GM dealer. He wraps up his question this way:
88
...But that is your job now as CEO, but you need to fix it and
fix it as quick as you can because it is going to cause problems,
obviously.
Ms. Barra. I agree with you. It is completely my
responsibility, and I will work day and night. We have already
made tremendous change at General Motors. We will continue to do
that, and I recognize it is my responsibility.
Mr. Green. The last thing in my 30 seconds is: Should my
constituent ?? should she have her mother in Phoenix take that
Regal back and have it checked by a dealer now and see what
happened?
Ms. Barra. Yes. And I wish you would send a note to me, and
I will ??
Mr. Green. I will get you that information.
Ms. Barra. Thank you.
Mr. Green. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Mr. Murphy. I now recognize Mr. Griffith for 5 minutes.
Mr. Griffith. Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
_____
It would be interesting to know whether Barra called that dealership and made sure they fixed it right. I would like to know how all that played out.
While it is not unusual for a constituent to prevail upon a congressman for help, and not unusual for a congressperson to receive help, do you need to go to fucking congress to get your car fixed? Looks like it.
Power serves power, bitchez. Eyes open, no fear.
Who wants to be an Engineer when you can be a fire fighter, make $100k/year, and get all the bald poon you could ever want?
We'll just import some H1B temporary foreign workers to do the Engineering for a fraction of the cost of those damn whities, what could go wrong?
Why did you even bother selling them?