issue RECALL - Fire Risk

dagwood2001 · January 11, 2014

odd. I got a message from my dealer on friday AM saying there was a recall on my truck. I called back, got one of the service guys on the phone, and he says they called "by mistake", the recall was for my 2011 Silverado (which I no longer own). Hmmm.....

newdude · January 11, 2014

Funny though I just logged into GMesi (GM's service info the dealers use) and couldn't find any reference to this campaign (recall) supposedly this thing is updated in real time so assuming they want their dealers to know it should have been in there. The only recent campaign was the fuel pressure regulator one that was dated 1/6/14 I referenced in the other thread.

Craig

Same here. I checked my Global Connect messages and saw the fuel pump one but not this one. Strange, from what I've noticed, GM notifies dealers first then the media runs with it.

JTWOLD · January 11, 2014

And incidentally, I am still interested in getting the illumination issue squared away.

By illumination issue, are you referring to a check engine type light is on, or something else?

2014big3 · January 11, 2014

Labsrsu posted a forum today Jan 11 at 7:56 am " GM recalling 370,00 trucks " This forum has been locked off as a duplicate. HOWEVER his forum had a link to the Detroit News Front page of Jan 10 that goes into more detail than the GM bulletin. Many may find it interesting. Including the reference to the issue of the vehicles being designed to idle on 2 cylinders! Yes I had to read that numerous times. Is this possibly another attempt to regulate the owner, pretty hard to warm up your truck in the cold if only 2 cylinders are running.

diannabill · January 11, 2014

By illumination issue, are you referring to a check engine type light is on, or something else?

I'm guessing the backlit LEDs on the radio and HVAC knobs

ASW · January 11, 2014

Ouch...what if you have your car in the garage, start it up, and it burns the whole house down?

Hootbro · January 11, 2014

Ouch...what if you have your car in the garage, start it up, and it burns the whole house down?

Well in the real world regardless of suspected cause, your home owners insurance would pay the costs up to the amount specified by your policy.

Any suspicions of your truck being the cause and GM being liable would happen way after the fact and would either be pursued by your insurance company and/or by you through civil litigation and if you are lucky and found in your favor, 3-5 years would have been lapsed between incident and payment by GM.

If the scenario as described happened, GM is not going to just pull up and write you a check. Fires are nasty things and vehicle fires are the worst. Just to say your truck was the source of a fire and burned down your house will not be good enough and GM will be lawyer'd up hard to have plausible deniability that something else near or by your truck caused the issue.

haider320 · January 11, 2014

Mine sits in the garage, but I rarely use remote start.

LS 1st Gen · January 12, 2014

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140110/AUTO0103/301100108

Idle on 2 cylinders? Interesting.

tanked_darren · January 12, 2014

Ouch...what if you have your car in the garage, start it up, and it burns the whole house down?

What would happen after your whole house burns down is you would probably use house insurance and live in a motel for awhile. Unless you are a house renter.

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Joe_K · January 12, 2014

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140110/AUTO0103/301100108

Idle on 2 cylinders? Interesting.

I don't believe that.

fondupot · January 12, 2014

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140110/AUTO0103/301100108

Idle on 2 cylinders? Interesting.

Really weird.

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rjgvt · January 12, 2014

I find it hard to believe the trucks are supposed to idle on 2 cylinders. Our temps a week ago were below 0*F all weekend, the truck would never heat up idling on 2 cylinders!

fondupot · January 13, 2014

Maybe they meant to say on 1/2 the cylinders. I could see that, but there is no audible v4/v8 noise when putting the key in after remote starting, or when shifting from park to D.

MikeNH · January 13, 2014

I think the two cylinder thing has to be wrong/a misunderstanding. These trucks still sound like V8s at idle and the very reason AFM doesn't work at idle is it proved to be too rough.