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About 1 Million GM Cars Still Await Ignition Switch Fix
General Motors Co. has replaced faulty ignition switches in nearly 1.4 million of the 2.6 million vehicles it recalled worldwide in February, The Detroit News reports.
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General Motors Co. has replaced faulty ignition switches in nearly 1.4 million of the 2.6 million vehicles it recalled worldwide in February, The Detroit News reports.
GM says another 230,000 of the vehicles covered by the recall have been scrapped or can't be found through registration records. That leaves about 1 million vehicles 823,000 of them in the U.S. still in operation and yet to be repaired since the recall began in February.
Safety officials say about 25% of recalled vehicles are never fixed, and the proportion is higher for older models, the News points out. Cars involved in the GM ignition-switch recall are from the 2003-2011 model years.
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