The seemingly unending nightmare of recalls for General Motors has hit yet another model and this time it is the Camaro. While we were whooping it up with all the nostalgia drag race guys in Bowling Green, the GM management team was telling the world that every single fifth generation Camaro built since 2010, by some reports over a half million, will need to be recalled due to a (stop us if you have heard this before) bad ignition switch that can cause the car to shut off while driving down the road. No one has reportedly been killed and we’re not sure if any accidents were being tracked by the government, but it seems that Chevrolet had information to suggest that they needed to address this before it got worse. Perhaps the pressure from the government and everyone else has them out there looking for issues or stuff that could lead to issues down the road and they are doing this as a preemptive strike.
It is important to note that this ignition switch/setup is completely unrelated to the disastrous situation that GM has been living through regarding their other ignition system which led to (reportedly) more than a dozen deaths and accidents that number in the hundreds. In the release from this recall, GM says that a driver’s knee could knock into the ignition switch and cause the car to shut off while it is being driven. We’re not entirely sure how the heck they fix that at the dealer, though unless they will be shortening driver’s legs or something. Perhaps a different switch design will be used or maybe one that requires more effort to operate. We’re still trying to get that information.
The one truly interesting thing in all of this is that GM openly says that the switch meets their engineering standards and that this issue was discovered with their own internal testing, not because of outside forces, wrecks, or a government inquiry. This is the 38th recall for the company in 2014 and the total number of cars called back in to be repaired has rocketed to over FOURTEEN MILLION.
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They’re fixing the issue by separating the key from the fob that unlocks the car.
Right now the fob is built into the key, which results in a big hunk of plastic hanging off of the ignition switch that a driver can bump their knee into.
Well – what do you expect from Chevrolet?
What’s next – the accelerator suddenly flooring itself whilst negotiating a tight bend whilst the brakes suddenly malfunction, the car spontaneously bursting into flames or trying to run the driver down when parked?
It is well known that quality and reliability are what Ford stands for – Chevy stands for – well it usually gets flushed down the john in the morning!
So if you want to avoid your new car killing you get a Mustang!
Of course, they can’t recall all of the Aussie-Canadian “Bumblebee” Camaros for their biggest defects . . . eye-grating cartoon “styling” . . . two-liter soda bottle plastics . . . claustrophobic mail-slot windows . . . imaginary “quality” control . . . planet-crushing flab . . . near-sadistic ergonomics . . . . 🙂
But it is good to know that roughly half-a-million folks prove every day that P.T. Barnum was right . . . . 🙂
………..AND, while they have them in the shop, they should see what they can do about getting the color on the rear half of the car to match the rest of it.
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EVERY G5 Camaro I have seen (that isn’t black) has a blatantly obvious difference in color between the doors & quarter panels?? WTF?
Like the Blue on in the pic up above!! :):)
Yep!!!