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Chevy Recalls Cruze After A Steering Wheel Falls Off (GOVT MOTORS cars already falling apart!)
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 11, 2011 | Jonathan Welsh

Posted on 04/11/2011 11:18:31 AM PDT by Beaten Valve

Imagine turning your car’s steering wheel, or giving it a gentle tug, and having it break away from the steering column. Now you’re speeding along holding the suddenly useless wheel.

It sounds like a vision from a cartoon, or every driver’s nightmare. And it happened to at least one driver of a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact car last month, and General Motors Corp. is recalling 2,100 of the cars as a result.

While the recall affects a relatively small number of vehicles, it is an unpleasant development for Chevrolet, which has been riding high on the success of its new small car. Chevrolet sold 50,205 Cruzes through the end of March. That’s well short of the 76,821 units Toyota sold of the Cruze’s main rival, the Corolla, but it is ahead of the 37,379 Cobalts Chevy sold in the same period. The Cruze replaced the Cobalt and is supposed to be a departure from that uninspired model.

In documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the car maker said it traced the problem with that particular car to a case in which the wrong wheel was put in a car and replaced later in the assembly process with the correct one. But the new wheel wasn’t attached properly, the car maker says.

When the wheel separated from the steering column, the driver was able to get the car to the side of the road safely, and the company says it has tested other cars from the production run and found no similar problems. General Motors says it believes this was an isolated incident.

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: automakers; chevrolet; cruze; generalmotors; governmentmotors
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Glad that I'm done with GM...
1 posted on 04/11/2011 11:18:41 AM PDT by Beaten Valve
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To: Beaten Valve

HA HA! Look for the union label.....


2 posted on 04/11/2011 11:19:50 AM PDT by jersey117
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But the new wheel wasn’t attached properly

WTH, somebody run out of duct tape???

3 posted on 04/11/2011 11:21:42 AM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (I am declaring 2011 to be the year of ME!)
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To: jersey117
Remember the lady in the Winnebago who put in on ‘cruise control’ on the interstate at 70MPH and then went into the back to make a sandwich? OOPS. Moral, you don't need a steering wheel...just put everything on cruise control.
4 posted on 04/11/2011 11:22:34 AM PDT by JPG ("2012 Can't Come Soon Enough" - Sarah Palin)
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To: Beaten Valve

I have been in and worked in every auto big 3 auto plant in the US....the cruze is made at lordstown...i would never buy anything made in lordstown ( one of the worst labor forces in the big 3 )......


5 posted on 04/11/2011 11:23:59 AM PDT by joe fonebone (Project Gunwalker, this will make watergate look like the warm up band......)
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6 posted on 04/11/2011 11:25:24 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (0bamanomics: Trickle Up Poverty.)
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To: Beaten Valve

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0JrWyfL7QUI


7 posted on 04/11/2011 11:28:12 AM PDT by tsowellfan
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To: Uncle Miltie

I had a GMC van in the 1990’s. Was riding down the road one day, hit a bump - and the half the dashboard fell to the floor. Just split, right down the middle basically. Ended up super gluing it back together and kept it for a few more years.

It was the last GM product I ever will purchase.


8 posted on 04/11/2011 11:28:24 AM PDT by Free America52 (The White guys are getting pissed off. We beat Hitler Hirohito and Krushchev. Obama will be easy.)
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To: Beaten Valve

Maybe someday the Cruze will be a good as the Yugo or Trabant.


9 posted on 04/11/2011 11:28:47 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
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To: Beaten Valve
During yesterday's F1 race in Malaysia, driver Vitale Petrov had something similar happen in his Lotus-Renault.

Of course he had just run off into the grass, and hit a bit of a hump in the terrain at about 140 mph while trying to reenter the track. The car launched a few feet in the air and either the initial impact or the landing snapped the steering column from its mounts.

It was pretty exciting to watch from outside the car, so I bet it was a real hoot for young Mr. Petrov.

http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2011/04/11/russian-driver-proves-f1-cars-fly-short-distances/

10 posted on 04/11/2011 11:34:14 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: tsowellfan

That is a very funny video.


11 posted on 04/11/2011 11:36:39 AM PDT by WayneS (Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. -- James Madison)
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To: Beaten Valve
GM having to recall 2,100 Cruze (main competition - Corolla) is horrendous ... shocking ... and unforgivable!!!

Per the Toyota.com recall info webpage: "Toyota is recalling approximately 1.13 million 2005-2008 Model Year Toyota Corolla and Corolla Matrix vehicles sold in the United States with the 1ZZ-FE engine and two-wheel drive."

GM, I'm shocked ... shocked I say!

12 posted on 04/11/2011 11:46:52 AM PDT by DesertSapper (God, Family, Country . . . . . . . . . . and dead terrorists!!!)
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To: Beaten Valve

If it fell off a Toyota it would be a cable new breaking story and on the front page of all the liberal newspapers.


13 posted on 04/11/2011 11:48:25 AM PDT by Harley (Will Rogers never met Harry Reid.)
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To: TexasRepublic

Maybe someday the Cruze will be a good as the Yugo or Trabant.
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14 posted on 04/11/2011 11:54:04 AM PDT by xrmusn ((6/98) When you are right, nobody remembers, but when you are wrong, nobody forgets.)
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To: WayneS

All it needs is the air horn playing “Dixie.”

}:-)4


15 posted on 04/11/2011 11:56:38 AM PDT by Moose4 ("By all that you hold dear on this good Earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West!")
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To: JPG

No Cruze Control?


16 posted on 04/11/2011 12:00:50 PM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Beaten Valve
LOOSENUT
17 posted on 04/11/2011 12:03:08 PM PDT by FrankR (The Evil Are Powerless If The Good Are Unafraid! - R. Reagan)
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To: Uncle Miltie

Like ‘em or not, that is a cute daddy/daughter moment!


18 posted on 04/11/2011 12:21:41 PM PDT by JimRed (Excising a cancer before it kills us waters the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: Beaten Valve

Their PR firm will claim it’s a new innovation.


19 posted on 04/11/2011 12:51:23 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard .. Obama: Epic Fail or Bust!!!)
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To: Beaten Valve

I had the same thing happen in a Honda Civic in the late 70’s.


20 posted on 04/11/2011 1:02:54 PM PDT by BigCinBigD (Northern flags in South winds flutter...)
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