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GM Ignition Switch Repairs Reach 807,000 Units
General Motors Co. says its dealers have now fixed about 807,000 of the 2.6 million cars the company recalled in February to replace defective ignition switches that could be jostled out of the "run" position.
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General Motors Co. says its dealers have now fixed about 807,000 of the 2.6 million cars the company recalled in February to replace defective ignition switches that could be jostled out of the "run" position.
GM tells Automotive News it has shipped 1.2 million switches to dealers and finally cleared its backlog of ordered parts.
The company's next big challenge is to contact more than 1 million owners of recalled cars who haven't responded to the recall.
Last week GM mailed letters to nearly 1.9 million such customers and those that have ordered parts but haven't yet installed them.
Meanwhile, GM is taking the unusual step of tracking down scrapped cars on the recall list. The company tells AN it wants to retrieve and destroy their faulty ignition switches, so the components won't end up in the repair parts market.
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