Perhaps to spice up an otherwise mild week—excepting that Acura NSX prototype fire—General Motors has issued six recalls to fix loose bolts, poor welding, and other miscellaneous problems, brining the automaker's 2014 North American total to 60 actions.
The 717,949 cars in the U.S. are all from the 2011–2015 model years and bring the total affected U.S. vehicles this year to about 25.5 million or more than nine times the number GM sold to Americans in 2013. No filings were made available yet by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Here's the rundown:
On various models with power height-adjustable driver and passenger seats, a bolt can come undone causing the seat to detach from the power adjuster and "move up and down freely," according to GM. This issue affects the 2011–2012 Chevrolet Camaro, Buick Regal, and Buick LaCrosse, along with the 2010–2012 Equinox, GMC Terrain, and Cadillac SRX SUVs. GM says drivers and passengers shouldn't touch the height controls until dealers replace the bolt. Of the 414,333 cars affected, GM says it knows of one crash and three injuries related to the problem.
Seats in some models may become loose because of an incomplete weld on the seat hook bracket assembly. GM attributes the problem to "loss of power to a laser welding machine" at the factory and says it believes the problem affects fewer than 1 percent of the 124,007 cars it's recalling for this problem. Included are the 2014 Chevrolet Caprice and SS, 2014 Cadillac CTS and ELR, 2013–2014 Cadillac ATS and Buick Encore, and light- and heavy-duty versions of the 2014–2015 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra.
The nuts fastening the ground stud on a power-steering control module may have had paint seep behind them on 2014 Chevrolet Impalas. The paint can cause a ground fault that will disable the power steering either when the engine is started or at speed. GM has recalled 57,242 of the sedans.
It gets nuttier. On just 22 examples of the 2015 Chevrolet Tahoe/Suburban and GMC Yukon/Yukon XL, the roof carriers may have been installed with the wrong nuts. This could result in holes or tears in the rail-mounted side curtain airbags if they deploy in a crash.
There's also the potential for loose bolts on the 2014–2015 Chevrolet Spark. But they're not just any bolts. They attach the lower control arm to the steering knuckle, which means when the two parts separate, the driver loses almost all steering. A total of 1919 Sparks, which are imported from South Korea, are affected by improperly torqued bolts.
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A minor inconvenience with the turn signals affects 120,426 2011–2013 Buick Regals and 2013 Chevrolet Malibus. We say "inconvenience" because it's simply that the car could fail to warn the driver when one of the two turn-signal bulbs in each of the front lighting units is burned out. The car still will warn the driver when both bulbs in one unit have expired. On those sedans, the directional indicator will blink rapidly to indicate two burnt bulbs but won't do so when only one of those bulbs isn't working. The fix is to re-flash the body control module so that the driver receives ample warning.
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