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I just received another recall for some supposed steering recall for my 2014 Silverado.

Sorry. After the last seat belt recall where the GM dealership hacked open the seat belt slot with a meat cleaver, I will pass on any future recalls. What will they do now, rip apart the steering wheel with a chainsaw then give it back to me?

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Is it this recall?

http://fortune.com/2017/08/06/gm-truck-steering-recall/

 

"GM says a software update is all that’s needed to fix the issue"

 

I also had the seatbelt flap hack job recall done. After that experience, I am not in any rush to have more recalls done. But this one seems pretty harmless.

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  • 2 years later...

Got to agree with you about the seatbelt recall and the fix provided by GM. I took mine in back sometime last year and not thinking about anything like the hack mess they did to my truck seat trim, I was furious when I saw it. I was told that was GM's fix and all they could do. My dealer seemed sympathetic so I left with the truck.

 

About half way home I couldn't stand it anymore so I called back to the dealer and told him to be ready for a fight over this hack job. I told who ever it was I was talking to it looked a lot like the tech had it out with a butcher knife as I recall and it simply wasn't acceptable. I was consoled to a certain extent and promised a new seat trim panel if I would bring it back in. So, when they were done with my truck this time I took a good look. I in fact had a 'different' trim panel as promised, but it was hacked almost as bad as the original. He told me there was no later revision of the part and that all GM dealers had been given instruction as to how/where to "trim" the rubber out of the trim panel. So, rather than going to jail that afternoon, I elected to go home and do some research.

 

Well, after a lot of searching and reading, and even much discussion on a couple other forums, I accepted it was in fact GM's recommended fix. Now these are simple plastic trim panels that cover the space between the seat bottom and the floor, and it's not even the entire panel involved. It's a stupid little rubber insert about the size of a dollar bill maybe. That little rubber insert probably doesn't cost GM $0.50 to mold. But they can be sure they've lost way more than $0.50 worth of good will to every truck owner whose truck they butchered up instead of replacing that little rubber insert. And the hell of it is that little insert is right inside the driver's door and he's almost forced to see it every time he gets in his truck. I know I do and I resent it more each time I open my driver's side door.

 

Knowing there was nothing more to gain that day at the dealer's from arguing, I elected to call and write to GM Corp and tell them just what a 'chit' job that was to people who had spent many thousands of dollars on a truck. I also told them that in my nearly 60 years of driving and owning vehicles, I had only owned maybe three vehicles other than Chevy. I was a hard core Chevy man for all those years, both in my daily driver, my work trucks, my circle track cars, and my wife's cars over the years. I had even recommended Chevy cars and trucks to every body I knew. Over a lot of years and recommendations I had sold a lot of vehicles for GM. But this had sorely sickened my loyalty to GM and especially Chevy.

 

That was over a year ago I think, and the pictures of my seat trim panel and how it was destroyed can be seen over on several other forums, along with pictures and complaints of other owners. My anger has subsided a little, but I'm still of an opinion I'm likely to go to something else when it's time to trade if I live long enough to trade. Though at my age this just might be my last truck ....... in which case GM wins! .......... dammit!

 

Regards,

jumpinjoe

 

 

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