This truck has become a running joke with me, fellow techs, family, friends, and internet friends as the biggest lemon that ever rolled off a GM assembly line. One friggin thing after another, literally since day ONE. Latest in the long list was a burnt up 3 / 4 clutch pack in the 4L60E transmission, with just 103k on the clock. The rear end spider gears self destructed at 97k ... but I digress.
Anyway ... this letter I got the other day is just icing on the cake. It took GM 14 years to figure out they used a crappy vendor (what else is new?) to build their airbags, and only when pointed out by the actual vendor? Funny how Takata THEMSELVES are the ones who discovered the problem!! The whole Takata debacle has been going on ... what, TEN years now?? WTF! You'd think that MAYBE those parts would be under scrutiny by now. Can GM do ANYTHING right??
"An inflator rupture may cause metal fragments to pass through the airbags and into the vehicle interior at high speed, which may result in serious injury or death to passengers."
Just blows me away, the ineptitude of this company. I'm singling out GM, since this is a GM forum, I've owned many, I KNOW they can do better, and I also know they choose NOT to these days, all the name of the bottom line. It's become beyond stupid at this point. I know others these days aren't much better - par for the 21st Century course. Wish the rest of their vendors would step up ... like the AFM lifter, brake rotor, 4L60E sunshell, ball joint, strut, rear spider gear manufacturers, just to name a handful, but since no lives were lost - just piles and piles of YOUR cash - it will never happen.
No real point to this thread, other than for me to vent a little, and poke GM as a company, hoping that some decade someone MIGHT read this, comprehend it, and actually force a CHANGE there. PLEASE!! One can hope ...