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Last week read an article that generally recalls up this year for most brands. Think GM has recently recalled about 2.3-2.7 million autos. They fired two engineers and have hired an additional 35 people to review issues up to ten years old. Their new thinking is to recall vs just issuing service bulletins and waiting for their customers to report issues at dealerships, therefore the higher number of current recalls and expected higher number in the future. Hope the other brands start doing the same.
Does not mean GM products are having more issues. Just means they will be issuing fewer technical service bulletins the general public is not aware of, but will be more proactive by issuing recalls for even minor issues that might result in future problems.
Think this is great and new head of GM is being very proactive. Hopefully the days are past when a $1.50 part won't cause an injury or death because the bean counters thought it was cheaper to pay off a limited number of death and injury claims then it would cost them to issue a recall notice. If anything, this new GM recall process has given me more confidence in GM products.
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