{"id":3945,"date":"2012-10-04T12:28:42","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3945"},"modified":"2012-10-04T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T16:30:20","slug":"gm-fuel-leak-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3945","title":{"rendered":"GM Fuel Leak Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>GM has announced that they will be recalling over 40,000 vehicles sold in warm weather states because these vehicles have plastic parts connected to the fuel pump which could crack and leak.  Fuel leakage in the presence of an ignition source could result in a fire.   <\/p>\n<p>GM says there have been no reports of fires or injuries related to the defect. The company began investigating the issue in 2011 after a dealer reported fuel leaks from some vehicles.  Warranty data indicates that the problem is more common in vehicles registered  in warm weather states. The vehicles affected by this problem include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=CHEVROLET&#038;model=EQUINOX&#038;year=2007\">2007 Chevrolet Equinox<\/a> in  Arizona, California, Nevada, and Texas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=CHEVROLET&#038;model=COBALT&#038;year=2007\">2007 Chevrolet Cobalt<\/a> in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=CHEVROLET&#038;model=COBALT&#038;year=2008\">2008 Chevrolet Cobalt<\/a> in Arizona<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=CHEVROLET&#038;model=COBALT&#038;year=2009\">2009 Chevrolet Cobalt<\/a> in Arkansas, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Texas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=PONTIAC&#038;model=TORRENT&#038;year=2007\">2007 Pontiac Torren<\/a>t in Arizona, California, Nevada, and Texas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=PONTIAC&#038;model=G5&#038;year=2007\">2007 Pontiac G5<\/a> in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=PONTIAC&#038;model=G5&#038;year=2008\">2008 Pontiac G5<\/a> in Arizona<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=PONTIAC&#038;model=G5&#038;year=2009\">2009 Pontiac G5<\/a> in  Arkansas, Arizona, California, Nevada, Oklahoma, and Texas<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/recall\/?make=SATURN&#038;model=ION&#038;year=2007\">2007 Saturn ION<\/a>  in Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada, and Texas<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Owners wanting  more information about the problem can contact General Motors at 1-800-521-7300.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GM has announced that they will be recalling over 40,000 vehicles sold in warm weather states because these vehicles have plastic parts connected to the fuel pump which could crack and leak. Fuel leakage in the presence of an ignition source could result in a fire. GM says there have been no reports of fires&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=3945\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,15,46,38],"tags":[1149,600,1246,1119,774,941,1115,361,1161,661],"class_list":["post-3945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chevrolet","category-general-motors","category-pontiac","category-saturn-cars","tag-automobile-fire","tag-chevrolet-problems","tag-fire-risk","tag-fuel-leak","tag-fuel-problem","tag-fuel-system-problems","tag-manufacturer-defect","tag-posssible-engine-fire","tag-repeated-automobile-problems","tag-saturn-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3947,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3945\/revisions\/3947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}