ooohh…. not good. Although, it shouldn’t affect those with manual transmissions…. +1 for manual

GM will fix everything. we are the best. buy the malibu over and bmw 5 series. our plastic int never fade and GM do not rust.
buy these american cars that are built in american and by american people.

its you duty

Built in american???? People using this site should at least have a grade school education. The stupidity here sometimes is mind boggling.

Go to school, get an education learn how to write intelligently, it’s your duty.

before all the haters get on here,

at least GM tells everyone about their recalls, and faces the safety issue at hand
unlike Toyota who attempts to hide it

@need more oil four GM

I, being a GM supporter and all, am embarrassed with the outlandish things you say

is this the problem that makes it REALLY hard to shift it into park? because we have that problem in our aura but havent gotten a letter…yet at least.

I want to hear from the people who were all over Honda for the 471 Odyessy recall

276k ? for a transmission on their NEW GM vehicles?

I thought the Malibu and Lambda’s were the saviors of GM now this. I thought they are reliable now (even wo proof) Now you have your proof! The new GM IS the old GM and that wont change.

This is what we gave our tax $$$’s to huh ?

Old Craven for Thunker Chicken s–t I would love to hear your excuse for this one

At least it was discovered quickly.

i remember someone a few days back trashing honda for recalling half that number.
anyways…serves them right.278000 americans should not be driving. learn how to use manual or take a cab.
my car has no auto box, no power stering, no ABS and no electronic aids. the only power anything are power windows, and i still keep it on the road
retards

Another recall for the General…not good.

@1115, it’s a recall! A RECALL! All automakers have recalls! Just because of one problem you immediately call GM’s vehicles UNRELIABLE. A vehicle can have a recall and still be reliable. Hondas, Toyotas, etc. have recalls and yet you still call THEM reliable. Oh, and remember, this is for 2009 vehicles. You’re forgetting that the 2008s (and 2007s of the Acadia and Outlook) didn’t (and still DON’T) have this problem. All you’re going at as that a few assembly line workers are going to get fired.

@jack: +1, hopefully the NHTSA caught this before vehicles actually started to roll away.

This great news for 276K owners. They can just push their rides off the cliff and collect insurance. The bill will be passed to GM, oops to US Treasury.

Toyota had one of the largest recalls ever with the Tacoma rotting frame. That cost them a fortune and cost them a butt load of money, and lost a lot of customers. Doesn’t mean they have crap trucks it means there was a design flaw. So just relax

Just because of one problem you immediately call GM’s vehicles UNRELIABLE.
gm has a HISTORY of unreliable vehicles and Honda and Toyota simply DONT. The J2 Resales are higher that comparable GM cars
GM (according to the posters on this site) are making reliable vehicles that rival the PROVEN J2 vehicles which is a flat out LIE! and this is one more example of that

@1115 (Surprise, surprise)

The vehicles based on the Lambda platform…no, the Lambda platform ITSELF has absolutely no history to begin with! It is a new platform. You can’t just jump the gun and call them unreliable until they’ve been on the market for at least three or four years.

Oh, and get your eyes checked – the Buick Enclave is NOT on that list. Someone at GM knows what they’re doing.

GM has a history of unreliable products therefore anything they make ie the lambda platform is unreliable and has to have time to be proven
Unfortunetely it has been on the market and had a few recalls for safety
I wont count the camshaft problem bc that was just on complaint sites similar to a lot of the Toyota issues and now this
Unless the Enclave has a different transmission (I dont know why it would) its on the list so please stop it

Ahahahaha, NMO four GM, that’s great, I hope you’re another parody of NMOFGM. I’m so glad my ‘93 190E is still working perfectly No need for me to worry about this recall.

Ah, but these kind of problems is why we use the PARKING BRAKE. It’s a neat little invention, that parking brake.

@1115 – My mistake, the Buick Enclave is also on this list (even though it’s not in this specific article). My apologies to you.

Heh, maybe half of these 277K vehicles are still in inventory!

So much for NMOFGM babbling about GM’s perfect reliability.

Where is the real NMOFGM to say everyone would rather get run over by their own GM vehicle than live to old age in some foreign piece of $#%?

jackjimturkey. Apparently they realised it after designing, manufacturing, approving, displaying, selling and delivering TWO HUNDRED AND SEVENTY SIX THOUSAND vehicles. THATS QUICK!!!???? WTF

@Need More Koolaid For GM. What the he!! are you talking about? This is why GM is failing as a company because of the crap they put out. What a perfect example of their continuous sub par quality.

Moparsalsman1 is correct. Go to school, get an education and learn how to spell and construct a sentence. Maybe those auto techs need to go to school and learn how to put a car together.

Do you not ever get tired of the negative posts you receive on here regarding the quality you spew out about GM??????? You have to stop and think a minute as to how GM, once the mighty car company in the world, is now being outsold by Toyota. How does that happen? Hmmmmm. Do you think it might be due to quality? Just a guess.

I don’t see how people like 1115 say Honda and Toyota are reliable. I work at an auto repair shop that doesn’t specialize in any specific brand, so we get everything. I can tell you, from first hand experience, that AT LEAST half of the vehicles we get in for repair are Honda’s and Toyota’s, and some old Chrysler’s, that have bad cylinder heads. Toyota’s LOVE burning valves and Honda’s just plain love breaking them(all the problem engines are I-4’s btw). We also had a Ford Escort once that completely destroyed all its valves.
Import brands(mostly Honda, Toyota, and Mazda) make up about 2/3 of the cars that are currently sitting in our shop. Seriously, all the domestic vehicles that come in just have misfires that are always remedied by a change of spark plugs, or a new ICM, because the idiot owners have the original plugs still on their engines at 120,000 miles. We did have two Ford Explorers with blown up transmissions, a Chevy pickup with a bad starter, and a Chrysler LHS with both heads gone bad in it’s V6, but that’s it. It’s never just an oil change with an import.

^Right on, C6.

<3 Need more oil four GM

@NMOFGM … BMW 5 >>>> Malibu. ****, the malibu is so ugly and cheap on the inside it makes the Kia Rio look rich. Not to mention the Malibus are really ****ty to drive.

Generally speaking though…. This is a .25 million people who will NOT be buying a GM for their next car… so much for the “improved quality”

I’ll bet fully half of all drivers with automatic transmissions engage the e-brake rarely if at all and even when they’re parked on hills. I know in the past (on certain GM models and probably others) it was necessary to keep the rear brakes in adjustment. Never mind the fact that it’s just common sense.

C6Racer, interesting insight. I wonder if that is because most GM owners service their cars at authorized dealership or that they’ve broken down too much to be around.

idrinorbarsaku, YES! Get it fixed, even if you don’t have the letter.

Johnny, it makes me so upset when my co-workers don’t engage the e-brake (all of my family and friends do). They ask me, “Why do you do that?” And I say, “It’s a good habit to have, because you never know.”

I was hit by a runaway car when I was five years old. It didn’t have the e-brake on while it was parked on a very steep driveway. The car’s parking gear broke, and then thing rolled down the hill and ran me over. I couldn’t walk for about two weeks after I got out of the hospital – all because the driver didn’t engage the e-brake when he parked on a hill. Oh, he also didn’t turn the wheel and lock it, either, so it just rolled straight into the yard I was playing in.

It was my friend’s dad’s car, but we didn’t hold it against them. I guarantee they use the e-brake every time, now, though.

Veda, That is exactly what i was going to say. Toyota import owners of older vehicles simply know that its cheaper for them to get their cars serviced at 3rd party shops. Whereas domestic vehicle owners probably just gave up on their cars a long time before. My grandfather drives a 91′ Toyota Camry, and he has never had anything major go wrong with it. However, early last year he replaced the water pump which cost him more than what the car was worth, albeit was a lot cheaper than buying a new one. Also, dont forget that the import cars have a tendency to be driven harder by their owners, my dad had an ‘83 toyota supra, where he cracked the block (he drove it very hard) but it was cheaper for him to get rid of it over fix it. Now he drives a lexus sc430 (not really a man’s car i know) but he loves it, and thats really all that counts. but whenever someone in our household needs a new car, domestics arent even an option.

MoparSalesman1, Bigs4610, NRG and OrangeCones, it wasn’t the original NMOFGM.

This guy was NMO-4-GM.

He was pretty funny, but not nearly as funny as the original NMOFGM.

NMKYFGM.

My feelings are that folks that say outlandish things here make a mockery of its readers. Is this the only place auto enthusiasts can mix pictures and reviews with useful feedback and commentary? Probably not.

So here’s what you do for example, send an email to Palm Beach International Raceway. Give them an example of the ridiculous commentary, and suggest that they invest advertising $ elsewhere.

Good thing I traded in the woman’s Suburban…

You folks just nag too much. It is a lousy cable, compare to all other problems GM has it rather screw up all cables in their cars then face the script they created themselves.

Borat, I wonder if this cable problem is electrical in nature? As in too many years of GM pulling their wire.

Buy another one, don’t make GM fix your cars, you lazy bums. It’s your responsibility to help them get off their feet!

Buy American, Eat McDonalds, It’s your doodie.

I dunno if you guys realize this but a recall in and of itself is not an indictment of reliability. A bigger test is how many failures before they issue a recall, the % of failures that represents, and how they handle it. If 1 out of 5 cars explodes and there is no recall that is unreliable. if one out of a 100 explodes and there is no recall thats unreliable, as long as there is a recall before it goes from 1-100 to 1-5 your ok. the problem the Import makers had was they didnt own up and tried to keep these things hidden, so it went from 1-100 where they could have recalled and been a really reliable company to 1-5 where it was glaringly obvious they were UNreliable and had to recall to save face.

The simple fact is recalls happen and the fact they happen before the failure rate skyrockets is what makes a car reliable versus one that doesn’t. It would have been a bigger issue if hundreds of cars parked on hills or near people who like to lean were rolled or pushed into traffic and GM said there was no problem. that didnt happen, ergo GM is a reliable company, ergo their cars, as pertaining to this article, are still reliable QED.

Hmmm… more like QEF to me;-)

Docendo Discimus

DB9;-))

i hope the owners of the cars hurry getting their stuff fixed while GM is still around to pay for it…

people would rather have flesh eating bacteria for dinner than drive a GM Vehicle

^ nope, I’d rather drive the car

beatusmongous – Thanks for pointing that out. That joker doesn’t even sound close to NMOFGM.