[Ringo64]

Originally Posted by camaro-dreamer

No, the bottom line is that the fix would have cost GM an additional 90 cents per vehicle (http://business.financialpost.com/20...ust-1-per-car/). More than a dozen people died and we don't know how many were injured just to save a few cents. This is despicable and people need to be punished.

Sadly, GM first discovered this issue in 2001, years before any of these vehicles ever hit the road. They had the opportunity to fix this: http://www.npr.org/2014/03/31/297158...-switch-defect .

90 cents for the part. Why that alone is a small number and hindsight is 20/20 and while the years this affected is no excuse, I can see some reason for not doing it if this only happened in odd cases (which seems it has). If you have a whole line already done and yes, while its 90 cents more per part, what is the cost of getting the vehicles back, the man power of putting them in, etc... that $400,000 SUGGESTION that they list from one email is a lot.

This is by no excuse for not replacing them the next model year or using in another vehicle, that I don't understand, at all.

Originally Posted by Angrybird 12

On your point about the steering wheel locking, on an automatic to lock it your transmission has to be in park to be able to turn the key to lock, on the manuals I have owned in the past there has to be either a lever beside the switch or a button on the switch to turn the key to the lock position to lock the steering.. They act as a interlock to prevent what you are suggesting so you would need that to also fail. Both the Cobalt my wife had and the HHR I had were this way, also both the manual and automatic Sky's I had were that way, all of which are on the ignition recall. My Camaro is that way, my Saturn Vue is that way and even my manual tranny S-10 is that way.

That makes sense. Guess I shouldn't post so early in the morning next time