Hey, the 95+ dashes aren't any better, there is literally only 3 screws holding the entire top to the vehicle.
GM Truck Recalls
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They just announced that GM must bring them in and fix them. Recall was announced May 27, 2016. GM dragged their feet because Takata filed for bankruptcy so there wasn't any available, and GM claimed that it wasn't a big deal and tried to basically block the recall through legal wrangling. Now, apparently, NHTSA is lighting a fire under GM's azz and making them fix the vehicles.
So who is supplying the replacement inflators? Is Takata in business or has the work been outsourced to other suppliers?
All this talk of how much GMT900's suck makes me want to just step into the 14+ stuff :O
All this talk of how much GMT900's suck makes me want to just step into the 14+ stuff :O
Looks like probably TRW. Takata, as it was, is no more. Bankrupt, dissolved, name sold to Chy-na.
Wait...let me put on my "shocked" face. 😵
I wonder if TRW even knows this was coming. I don't think they had like, 6 million of the air bags just laying around. It's still going to be a nightmare.
No, they were installed with 3 screws from the factory. Most now only have 1-2 due to breakage😀
GM was fighting the other recalls and the result was this most recent one which includes more years....
GM to recall 7M vehicles globally to replace Takata air bags
General Motors will recall about 7 million big pickup trucks and SUVs worldwide to replace potentially dangerous Takata air bag inflators
abcnews.go.com
This is what the inflators wind up looking like. And I wouldn’t say gm was necessarily trying to fight it, federal law mandates manufacturers must make a recall within I think 30 days of knowing about a safety issue, but it takes months or years to design and safety test the parts, produce and distribute, and the recall instructions, I’ve seen some recalls take over a year to get the parts availability
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Can I just opt to have them pull the air bag out and replace it with a resistor to keep the dash lights off?
I'd just like to die like a real man is all.
I'd just like to die like a real man is all.
That's the irony. It's perfectly safe 99.99% of the time. Only kills you when it's trying to save your life.
