Might wanna Check Your Cars Brakes

[chknwing]

Apparently Chevy forgot to install brake pads, massive recall.

http://www.thecarconnection.com/news/1071185_missing-brake-pads-prompt-gm-to-recall-2012-chevy-sonic-models

[KSpan]

Wow. Just... wow.

[Jase]

government motors, amirite, amirite?

[cookinwithgas]

They were left off on purpose - a car named Sonic needs to make a lot of noise.

[Kevin Greene]

Union built in the USA.

With pride.

The fact these vehicles ever made it to the end user is incomprehensible.

Starting with the brain dead line worker making $24 per hour with full bennies and retirement, to I assume some sort of QC at the factory. Then the distribution center, the technicain who does a pre-delivery inspection at the dealership, to the salesman who test drives the vehicle with a prospective customer, to the end user who actually accepts a vehicle with a massive metal to metal grinding noise when the brakes are applied.

Total fail.

God Bless the USA and our outstanding Unions.

[charlotte49er]

Union built in the USA.

With pride.

The fact these vehicles ever made it to the end user is incomprehensible.

Starting with the brain dead line worker making $24 per hour with full bennies and retirement, to I assume some sort of QC at the factory. Then the distribution center, the technicain who does a pre-delivery inspection at the dealership, to the salesman who test drives the vehicle with a prospective customer, to the end user who actually accepts a vehicle with a massive metal to metal grinding noise when the brakes are applied.

Total fail.

God Bless the USA and our outstanding Unions.

If it weren't for unions, you'd be working 60 hours+ a week for 1/2 the wages and you would have doing this since you were 14!

So yes, God Bless the Unions!

[Crixtala]

too bad other countries don't have the power/impact to throw GM under the bus like our government did to Toyota back when there was the Camry brake pedal issue.

[88 Bronco]

My Fords stop and accelerate with no problems.

[Davidson Deac II]

Its hard to tell if this is a one time/one car thing, or a problem with the entire line of vehicles. The article doesn't make that clear. It just says they are all being recalled for inspection.

If its a problem with just one or two cars, then its understandable. It even happens to the Japanese cars on occasion.

If it is a problem with the entire lineup, I doubt the Union had much to do with this. Sounds like their post manufacture inspection process is screwed up. One or two getting out without brake pads is probably an employee screwing up and that could be blamed on the union. But so many getting out means the process is broken.

This is interesting.

In 2011, Toyota was for the third year in a row the automaker with the most recalled vehicles—more than 3.5 million in all, covered by 13 different campaigns. However, it’s worth noting that its totals were a fraction of the total for 2010, when the automaker issued the bulk of its accelerator-related recalls, covering 11.5 million vehicles in all.

And for those of you that recently purchased a Rolls Royce ;)

Rolls-Royces recalled

Lesson: No automaker is excepted when it comes to recalls. Case in point: Rolls-Royce, and its recall of the 2010 Ghost. According to Rolls, a faulty circuit board can cause damage to an auxiliary water pump, potentially starting an engine fire. The issue only covers 599 Rolls-Royce vehicles, with the same problem affecting more than 32,000 BMW models, but here the idea of a recalled Rolls is what stands out.