General Motors (“GM”) will recall about 5,000 heavy-duty vans due to their faulty alternators. Alternators are used in automobiles to charge the battery and to power a car’s electric system when its engine is running. The models under recall include Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana.
The automaker has suspended sales and production of the affected heavy-duty van models until the problem is fixed. It has also urged its customers to stop driving vehicles manufactured in February and March.
Recently, GM has recalled 58,696 vehicles in South Korea due to problems with steering wheels, fuel hoses and seats. The recall includes 4 models — Winstorm SUV and Winstorm Maxx SUV (45,957 units), Lacetti Premiere sedans (12,604 units) and Damas commercial vehicle (135 units). GM Daewoo Auto & Technology Co. — formed after GM acquired Daewoo Motor Co. Ltd. in 2001 — manufactures the recalled models.
At the beginning of March, GM had also announced the recall of 1.3 million Chevrolet and Pontiac compact cars sold in the U.S., Canada and Mexico due to a failure with their power-steering mechanism. The affected models were Chevrolet Cobalt (2005–2010), Pontiac G5 (2007–2010) and Pontiac Pursuit (2005 and 2006) sold in Canada and Pontiac G4 (2005 and 2006) sold in Mexico.
The recall was triggered by an investigation on January 27 into 905,000 vehicles of the models. The probe found 1,100 complaints related to the cars losing their power steering assist. The complaints included 14 crashes and one injury.
Vehicle recalls have become the talk of the town after Toyota Motors’ (TM) recent announcement of the largest-ever global recall of 8.5 million vehicles for braking and sudden acceleration problems. Toyota’s recall was followed by other automakers including Nissan Motor, with brake pedal pins and fuel-gauge component problems and Honda Motor (HMC), facing problems with air bag inflators and braking systems.
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