Recalls / TSB's

Recalls is something that every automaker dreads and prays that they never have to deal with. Unfortunately for GM and Toyota it is time for them to face the music. Together they are both recalling over 662,000 cars that have been sold in the U.S. because of the defective power windows.

It is rare that we never find anything wrong with a brand new model. There are usually one or more things that need to be tweaked before it heads to final production. Yet, even after production that might be a few problems here and there that some automakers never expected to run into. We usually don’t see any problems after the vehicles have been shipped – but it looks like Nissan didn’t get so lucky.

This turned out to be a bad week for Holden (GM’s subsidiary company in Australia) as they were forced to recall 86,000 rear wheel drive Zeta vehicles that were built with the V6 engine. Holden discovered that the engine in the Australian vehicles could cause a fuel leak – which would then cause a fire. Holden has promised to fix all problems free of charge.

Ouch, that’s gotta suck. General Motors annonced earlier today that it was recalling 313,000 passenger cars and crossover vehicles in an effort prevent the driver from potentially losing control  due to rear axle pinion seal that’s prone to leaking.