General Motors Co. expanded a recall by 971,000 vehicles worldwide Friday to cover 2008-2011 vehicles that were built with safe parts but may have received faulty replacements.
The recall brings the total to 2.59 million small cars and now includes 2008-2010 Chevrolet Cobalts, Pontiac G5s, Pontiac Solstices, Saturn Ions and Saturn Skys and 2008-2011 Chevrolet HHRs, said Jim Cain, a Detroit-based GM spokesman.The recall comes on top of 1.62 million cars recalled last month for faulty ignition switches.
“We know that these vehicles were built with good switches, but what we don’t know: Were any of them repaired with a bad switch,” Cain said. “So out of an abundance of caution, we’re just going to replace the switches in all of them.”
About 95,000 faulty switches were sold to dealers and aftermarket wholesalers with about 90,000 used for repairs, he said.
Business, Pages 28 on 03/29/2014