{"id":3481,"date":"2014-03-31T21:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-01T02:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/injury.robertkreisman.com\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2016-08-31T16:55:55","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T16:55:55","slug":"general-motors-recalls-chevrolets-pontiacs-ignition-switch-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/general-motors-recalls-chevrolets-pontiacs-ignition-switch-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"General Motors Recalls Chevrolets and Pontiacs Because of Ignition Switch Problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It would be hard to miss the multiple news releases and stories that General Motors has some big problems with its 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt and its 2007 Pontiac G5.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gm.com\/\">General Motors<\/a> is recalling these vehicles because a heavy key chain or rough roads can jar the key, turn off the engine and disable the airbags.\u00a0 According to recent reports, General Motors has linked the defect to 31 crashes and 12 deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">However, there were no recalls of these vehicle until this year, so used car buyers considering a General Motors model may not have known of the faulty ignition switches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhtsa.gov\/\">National Highway Traffic Safety Administration <\/a>(NHTSA) has said that on outstanding recalls, about 30% of the owners do not return the car to the dealer for the recall fix.\u00a0 Carfax, which sells reports tracing the history of used cars, says that 3.5 million vehicles were sold last year that had defects subject to a manufacturer\u2019s recall but had not had the repair done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertkreisman.com\/injury-lawyer\/general-motors-recalls-chevrolets-pontiacs-ignition-switch-problems\/#more-3481\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It would be hard to miss the multiple news releases and stories that General Motors has some big problems with its 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt and its 2007 Pontiac G5.\u00a0 General Motors is recalling these vehicles because a heavy key chain or rough roads can jar the key, turn off the engine and disable the airbags.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":795,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74,75,76,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-auto-defect-litigation","category-product-defect-litigation","category-product-liability","category-recalled-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>General Motors Recalls Chevrolets and Pontiacs Because of Ignition Switch Problems &#8212; 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