GM Issues Two Recalls For The Cruze

[William Maley]

GM Issues Two Recalls For The Cruze

William Maley - Editor/Reporter - CheersandGears.com

May 5, 2011

GM has issued two new recalls for their hot-selling Chevrolet Cruze. The first recall has 154,122 Cruzes coming in for an inspection of intermediate steering shaft covers to see if they were installed correctly. This is the second recall issued for the Cruze's steering. Last month, 2,100 Cruzes were recalled after a customer had a steering wheel detach from the steering column.

Recall number two is for 120,295 Cruzes equipped with a automatic transmission. The problem stems from an issue where the transmission is in gear, but the vehicle shows it in a another gear. Dealers will inspect the transmission shift linkage and replace if necessary.

Source: Left Lane News

[G. David Felt]

Damn, this is NOT the kind of news we want to hear about GM auto's. The union workers have got to do better than this.

[Paolino]

Yeah, heard it on tv and then they mentioned, "This coming after a steering wheel actually fell off while someone was driving... Yikes."

[Drew Dowdell]

You know what I'm curious about? Why the car was out for 2 years in other countries and GM wasn't able to shake this problem out of the system.

[Mike The Canadian]

Maybe it's an assembly line problem?

These are the same people that were doing the Cavalier's and Cobalt's

[Croc]

You know what I'm curious about? Why the car was out for 2 years in other countries and GM wasn't able to shake this problem out of the system.

Bingo. Except...these recalls are assembly-line issues. All of the design issues were taken care of overseas. This is just Lordstown incompetence.

[Nick]

[Croc]

Honestly, if I were GM I'd be looking into any way to exact punishment on the workforce at any plant that engages in such incompetence. There have to be both carrots and sticks.

[balthazar]

sticks = employee flogging by the flagpole?

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I've been seeing Cruzes ALL OVER....

Edited May 5, 2011 by balthazar

[vonVeezelsnider]

You know what I'm curious about? Why the car was out for 2 years in other countries and GM wasn't able to shake this problem out of the system.

Legendary Lordstown at it again, this has got to be a cultural thing, as I think it goes back to the Vega IIRC

[RjION]

GM's moto ... nothings changed but the price.

[hyperv6]

You know what I'm curious about? Why the car was out for 2 years in other countries and GM wasn't able to shake this problem out of the system.

Yes it could be a human factor but there are others factors.

A supplier could have made the intermediate shafts wrong. A tool on the line could be set to the wrong torque or did not push the shaft onto the spline far enough. Could be the one car it happened too was not a GM issue?

All in all this is not a major problem as of yet and GM by jumping on it ASAP will make sure it gets no worse. Production cars can be trouble shot all you want and still something can shake out no matter who makes it. All in all the Cruze has been a pretty painless release and it will ride this one out with little harm.

As for the shift indicator out of adjustment how many other cars have this all the time and no one ever recalls them? I see it often in many cars.

This is even something the dealers should have caught on the prep for delivery.

Edited May 6, 2011 by hyperv6

[Croc]

You know what I'm curious about? Why the car was out for 2 years in other countries and GM wasn't able to shake this problem out of the system.

Legendary Lordstown at it again, this has got to be a cultural thing, as I think it goes back to the Vega IIRC

Wait, they were the Vega plant?? Oh god, why wasn't that one shuttered years ago??

At the very least, that plant has a history of abysmal quality control. These are the kinds of mistakes that shouldn't be allowed to leave the plant.