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White64Goat · 06-13-2014, 12:22 PM

GM issued a recall for ALL Camaros built since since 2010 for the ignition switch. Seems that you can bump it with your knee and shut the engine off, leading to a possible accident. This is 511,000+ vehicles.

RenegadeSS · 06-13-2014, 12:34 PM

I heard of this issue, but it really pertains to the fools who hang every key they own on their car keys. Before you hit the key (which never happened to me), you will hit the steering wheel and column.

malave7567 · 06-13-2014, 02:16 PM

The recall is for the key itself, not the ignition switch. And yeah, like Renegade said, you have to drive with your knees all the way up by the key for this to be a problem. I had a Gen5 Camaro for two years and never had my knees anywhere close to where they could "bump the key, making it turn out of the run position."

Their proposed solution is idiotic if you ask me. It takes the stock key, and now instead of a switchblade keyfob, you have a standard key and a separate fob. That's a step backwards if you ask me. My wife will not be changing her key on her Camaro. She agrees it's stupid. GM is trying too hard to cover their asses.

MokSpeed · 06-13-2014, 02:20 PM

Should've never bailed them out anyway.

ModBargains.com · 06-13-2014, 02:20 PM

Yeah... Not good, the total amount of recalls from GM lately are insane, so this isn't going to help that at all.

strat61caster · 06-13-2014, 03:23 PM

Looks like a pretty silly 'we're just going to cover our ass even though it's a minor issue' thing to me.

http://jalopnik.com/this-is-how-hard...n-i-1590538077

I bet I could turn my FRS off with my knee if I tried hard enough, no hitting, just push it around with your kneecap.

Edit: Please click on the link above, this is totally unrelated to the death switch that GM flipped out about over the past few weeks, that switch problem was solved in 2007.

husker741 · 06-13-2014, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by MokSpeed

Should've never bailed them out anyway.

Bingo.

RenegadeSS · 06-13-2014, 04:04 PM

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Originally Posted by husker741

Bingo.

Any car can suffer from the same issue if people dangle any weight on their keys. Regarless, of any manufacturer.

husker741 · 06-13-2014, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by RenegadeSS

Any car can suffer from the same issue if people dangle any weight on their keys. Regarless, of any manufacturer.

Yeah, but not all manufacturers went bankrupt because they blow donkey d1ck.

MokSpeed · 06-13-2014, 04:24 PM

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Originally Posted by husker741

Yeah, but not all manufacturers went bankrupt because they blow donkey d1ck.

This x1000000

Also don't try to pull that "It would've hurt the US economy" crap either. An 80 billion dollar bailout is what hurts the economy. Even now GM continues to make garbage and hasn't learned from their flaws and mistakes. If you're unwilling to adapt to the market you deserve to be put out of business. Ford realized their issues and addressed them. Now they are doing quite well.

Dadhawk · 06-13-2014, 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by ModBargains.com

Yeah... Not good, the total amount of recalls from GM lately are insane, so this isn't going to help that at all.

Looking back through the last 7 weeks of notifications of recalls (I've subscribed to their service here) from the NHTSA, GM has had 18 recalls posted.

During that same time Toyota has had 4.

Ford and Nissan also had quite a few, but I was too lazy to count them. All of them have some serious (and like this one for GM) some not so serious.

(@MokSpeed comment ^above^ made me have to go back and count, Ford had 10, including 3 this week)

Some of the recalls Ford and GM actually share because they are on 3rd party equipment like handicap lifts and other conversion activities.

What I have noticed is they seem to come in batches for all manufacturers, so maybe there is some procedural thing that causes them to be lumped together.

Just an observation, not sure where I was really going with this....

RenegadeSS · 06-13-2014, 07:54 PM

Simmer down kids. Toyota had recalls in the millions also resulting in deaths.

RenegadeSS · 06-13-2014, 07:55 PM

I had an integra with similar issues. The previous owner failed to mention it to me. Found out the hard way on base, when I almost careened into the MPX.

chulooz · 06-14-2014, 07:56 AM

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Originally Posted by RenegadeSS

Simmer down kids. Toyota had recalls in the millions also resulting in deaths.

You mean the floor mat witch hunt that just so happened to be around the same time as the GM bailout...?

06-13-2014, 12:22 PM	#1
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06-13-2014, 12:34 PM	#2
RenegadeSS Member Join Date: May 2014 Drives: Camaro LS/M6 Location: United States Posts: 23 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I heard of this issue, but it really pertains to the fools who hang every key they own on their car keys. Before you hit the key (which never happened to me), you will hit the steering wheel and column.

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malave7567 Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2013 Drives: (formerly) 2013 Raven FR-S Location: Houston, TX Posts: 396 Thanks: 117 Thanked 218 Times in 136 Posts Mentioned: 3 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	The recall is for the key itself, not the ignition switch. And yeah, like Renegade said, you have to drive with your knees all the way up by the key for this to be a problem. I had a Gen5 Camaro for two years and never had my knees anywhere close to where they could "bump the key, making it turn out of the run position." Their proposed solution is idiotic if you ask me. It takes the stock key, and now instead of a switchblade keyfob, you have a standard key and a separate fob. That's a step backwards if you ask me. My wife will not be changing her key on her Camaro. She agrees it's stupid. GM is trying too hard to cover their asses.

06-13-2014, 02:20 PM	#4
MokSpeed Granny Shifter Join Date: Apr 2014 Drives: 2014 FR-S Location: United States Posts: 2,094 Thanks: 539 Thanked 1,289 Times in 711 Posts Mentioned: 24 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Should've never bailed them out anyway.

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ModBargains.com Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2012 Drives: FR-S Location: La Habra, CA Posts: 1,526 Thanks: 88 Thanked 416 Times in 274 Posts Mentioned: 63 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Yeah... Not good, the total amount of recalls from GM lately are insane, so this isn't going to help that at all.

06-13-2014, 07:54 PM	#12
RenegadeSS Member Join Date: May 2014 Drives: Camaro LS/M6 Location: United States Posts: 23 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Simmer down kids. Toyota had recalls in the millions also resulting in deaths.

06-13-2014, 07:55 PM	#13
RenegadeSS Member Join Date: May 2014 Drives: Camaro LS/M6 Location: United States Posts: 23 Thanks: 5 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	I had an integra with similar issues. The previous owner failed to mention it to me. Found out the hard way on base, when I almost careened into the MPX.

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