Latest Greatest… Service Notes: August 2014
There’s been a lot on the news lately about the General Motors recall (Multiple recalls, actually…) and rightly so. It’s the largest in automotive history, figured in the tens of millions of vehicles.
To compound matters, General Motors has been joined in the quest to see who can generate the most Recalls by just about every other vehicle manufacturer on the planet! (Here are just a couple of the many sites you can visit to see how many vehicles have been affected and whether or not your vehicle may be one of those included: http://www.recalls.gov/nhtsa.html & http://autos.aol.com/info/recall/ .
The whole notion of having to bring your vehicle back to the dealer – which is where you will have to go if the vehicle is involved in a Recall, especially if you want to have the service provided at the manufacturer’s cost and not yours – is stressful enough.
But, far more distressing is the impact the Recalls themselves, coupled with the cost and the fallout from the cover-up, are likely to have on the Technical Service Bulletins that regularly flow from the factory alerting their service network and members of the independent segment of the repair community of potential engineering problems.
