"GM ordered dealers to stop selling the new Chevrolet Colorado..."

[Capricious]

General Motors ordered dealers to stop selling the new Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon

GM halts sale of midsize trucks, issues 2 more recalls




Another reason why I don't want to be the first one to buy a new model / new engine / new aluminum body / new anything. Regardless of brand.

 

[mfreund]

I had the first year body style in my 1994 s-10. Never again.

 

[94BULLITT]

Atleast they caught it before it went to far.

 

[Monster5601]

GM just can't get it together. Wonder if they will ever get their engineering back.

 

[RalphVa]

Not sure they'll be much competition to Tacoma, as they're truly obese. Saw the weight of the extend cab versions are 3,944 #. The Tacoma is already quite obese at 3,500 #. The 1999 body was much more the right weight at 3,000 #. All we need is a VW TDI running gear slapped into the front of a 1995-1999 Tacoma body. Throw away the differential in back.

Ralph

 

[Gary Fowler]

How many of you saw the news story about Takata air bags that malfunction upon use and shoot shrapnel at the driver. Just about all auto makers are involved as a lot of them use this brand of air bag. What is seriously flawed is that the recall is just in coastal states right now as they think the exploding air bag is more affected by moisture.
A comment by the news report that the recall isn't in effect in the states where it caused a fatality go the response from the commenter that it was all about money.
Just in the recall area is estimated 110 million vehicles are affected and as said that is just one state wide around the perimeter of the coastal sections of the USA leaving all of the interior states out of the recall at present. I would think that NTSB would force a recall of all autos with that brand of air bag.

 

[Katahdin]

Not sure they'll be much competition to Tacoma, as they're truly obese. Saw the weight of the extend cab versions are 3,944 #. The Tacoma is already quite obese at 3,500 #. The 1999 body was much more the right weight at 3,000 #. All we need is a VW TDI running gear slapped into the front of a 1995-1999 Tacoma body. Throw away the differential in back.

Ralph

I drive a no frills 2-door Jeep TJ that weighs 3,500#. I don't quite understand what you consider fat....

 

[Garandman]

We have purchased two Chevrolet Cruze Diesels and an Eco this year. 21,000 miles on the first one, none have had problems.

We have a fleet of five brands. They all have recalls.

 

[RollingsFarms]

How many of you saw the news story about Takata air bags that malfunction upon use and shoot shrapnel at the driver. Just about all auto makers are involved as a lot of them use this brand of air bag. What is seriously flawed is that the recall is just in coastal states right now as they think the exploding air bag is more affected by moisture. A comment by the news report that the recall isn't in effect in the states where it caused a fatality go the response from the commenter that it was all about money. Just in the recall area is estimated 110 million vehicles are affected and as said that is just one state wide around the perimeter of the coastal sections of the USA leaving all of the interior states out of the recall at present. I would think that NTSB would force a recall of all autos with that brand of air bag.

GM doesn't use that brand of airbag according to the show. Chrysler, Honda, and Ford do though.

 

[ruffdog]

Drove one, and they sure drive nice. Gone is the cheap little truck feel.

 

[schmism]

from the artical... recalls are over airbag stuff

This condition affects the vehicles' two-stage air bag system by reversing the deployment sequence and disrupting the deployment timing of the driver airbag stages. This condition will cause the driver airbags to not function as designed," GM said.

 

[ruffdog]

from the artical... recalls are over airbag stuff

The dealers will reprogram the air bag system. The dealers will be set to do it in a few days.

 

[wawajake]

It must be the same airbag supplier causing much of these recalls , because last week I read how Ford had recalled 850,000 vehicles for airbags that might not work.

 

[Ford850]

It must be the same airbag supplier causing much of these recalls , because last week I read how Ford had recalled 850,000 vehicles for airbags that might not work.

Could be. I heard GM added a recall on Saturday for thousands more due to airbags. But what's odd is the press releases say it is due to loose wiring and crossed wiring, so how are they fixing that with software?

 

[PILOON]

Blaming software ,INMHO, is marketing jargon to minimize a more major problem as well as maybe 'passing the buck', either way the buck is passed on to a sub contractor.

 

[Garandman]

Blaming software ,INMHO, is marketing jargon to minimize a more major problem as well as maybe 'passing the buck', either way the buck is passed on to a sub contractor.

Not in modern cars with "Drive by wire" systems. In many cars now the ignition switch does not activate the starter directly: it tells one of the car's computers "activate the start cycle."

Japanese manufacturers outsource more of their engineering to their suppliers so they are actually more susceptible than the US manufacturers. But as mentioned we have 10 vehicles of five different brands and they all get about a recall a year, most trivial.

 

[square1]

I had the first year body style in my 1994 s-10.

Thank you for being a test subject. I have an 03 (last year built) and all the problems were fixed. At 180.000 miles it still runs like a champ with only routine maintenance ever being done (and one transmission rebuild, my fault)

 

[Dr_Zinj]

I like my Toyota Tacoma. Of course the dealer looked at me strangely when I told him I only needed a 2 wheel drive. But I told him I drive on the roads, not logging trails, and I have a tractor to plow with so I don't need 4WD for that. Which lops 500 lbs off the GVW, improves mpg, lessens tire wear, and costs at least a thousand less on the ticket price.

Fat pig? Not hardly.

 

[MikePA]

...the buck is passed on to a sub contractor.

More often than not, the buck does not get passed. Certainly not with reputation damage (the automaker is the most visible and does the recall, not the subcontractor) nor with lawsuits which go after both companies and focus on the one with the deepest pockets, which is usually the automaker.