More GM Woes

[MikeT]

GM Recalls 207,000 Sedans

http://www.usatoday.com/money/autos/2008-03-14-gm-recall-sedans_N.htm

http://wcco.com/consumer/gm.buick.recall.2.677119.html

http://citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880314029&source=rss

GM doesn't seem to be able to catch a break :(

[jimmychoi]

Ouch...they have to be getting tired of being punched in the mouth like this. I wonder much money a recall of this magnitude costs them?

[crimsonaudio]

Hard to feel sorry for a company that builds sub-standard vehicles like they do. If I ran my company like GM does, I'd be in trouble as well...

[djeaux]

Before folks start gloating, the newest vehicle listed in the recall is five years old. None of us know if there will be issues that become evident in the Ridgeline after five years, simply because nobody has owned one that long.

[MikeT]

Before folks start gloating, the newest vehicle listed in the recall is five years old. None of us know if there will be issues that become evident in the Ridgeline after five years, simply because nobody has owned one that long.


Yeppers, but the lawsuit that prompted this is almost as old.

[arteegee]

Before folks start gloating, the newest vehicle listed in the recall is five years old. None of us know if there will be issues that become evident in the Ridgeline after five years, simply because nobody has owned one that long.

I know mine won't have GM "issues.":p

[crimsonaudio]

Before folks start gloating, the newest vehicle listed in the recall is five years old. None of us know if there will be issues that become evident in the Ridgeline after five years, simply because nobody has owned one that long.
Honda track record > GM track record.

That's the point.

[djeaux]

Honda track record > GM track record.

That's the point.

And of course up until the Ridgeline, Honda resale value > GM resale value. ;)

This isn't as if Honda didn't lose an odometer lawsuit a couple of years ago. And that one probably made Honda beaucoups pesos, even after the settlement, by running people off warranty faster & also by giving consumers a false impression that their vehicles got better gas mileage. (Anybody notice that almost all the Ridgeline owners who report 22 mpg own trucks with the odometer "error"?)

[MikeT]

)Anybody notice that almost all the Ridgeline owners who report 22 mpg own trucks with the odometer "error"?)


I am one of those owners that is getting 22mpg to 24mpg on the highway. When I checked (Via mile markers) over a 1100 mile drive, I was seven miles over the mile marker count. This included several 9000ft to 10,000ft climbs. My VW Jetta was much much worse. When a mile would turn on my odometer, I was still about 15 yards short of the mile marker.

[shovelhd]

No speedometer error here, either. My nav is accurate to within 7 feet and the nav speedo and my dash speedo are absolutely equal.

[djeaux]

Mine is correct, too, comparing GPS to my speedo. (I might note, though, that the "best" max speed my Garmin has reported is only 323 mph...) However, after applying the correction to my wife's affected '05 Ody, I found that she wasn't getting 24 mpg after all :(

[MikeT]

Mine is correct, too, comparing GPS to my speedo. (I might note, though, that the "best" max speed my Garmin has reported is only 323 mph...) However, after applying the correction to my wife's affected '05 Ody, I found that she wasn't getting 24 mpg after all :(

What was the correction that was applied (Milage, speed, altimeter, barometric ;) )?