{"id":5739,"date":"2014-03-14T09:20:04","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T13:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5739"},"modified":"2014-04-02T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2014-04-02T20:11:54","slug":"gm-faces-congress-questioning-about-ignition-defect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5739","title":{"rendered":"GM Faces Congress Questioning About Ignition Defect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src='http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/video\/embed?id=22872343' width='420' height='236' style='border:none;'><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/entertainment?cid=11_extvid1\">ABC Entertainment News<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/business?cid=11_extvid2\">ABC Business News<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Congress is questioning General Motors and government safety regulators as to why it took so long to recall 1.6 million <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5709\">vehicles with ignition problems<\/a>, after a new review of federal crash data shows 303 deaths linked to air bag failure on two of the models recalled.  The review of the air bag failures by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.friedmanresearch.com\/\">Friedman Research Corporation<\/a>, adds to the mounting reports that General Motors and safety regulators knew about the ignition defect for almost a decade before recalling over 1.6 million 2005-2007 Chevrolet Cobalt, 2003-2007 Saturn Ions, 2005-2007 Pontiac Pursuit, 2006-2007 Chevrolet HHR,  2006-2007 Pontiac Solstice,  2007 Saturn Sky, and 2007 Pontiac G5 vehicles.<!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>GM said that the the weight on the key ring combined with rough road conditions could cause the ignition switch to move out of the &#8220;run&#8221; position, turning off the engine and most of the car&#8217;s electrical components. GM recommends that owners use only the ignition key with nothing else on the key ring until  the problem can be corrected.   GM has also received a 27-page list of 107 questions from U.S. safety regulators at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration about the company&#8217;s handling of the recall. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC Entertainment News | ABC Business News Congress is questioning General Motors and government safety regulators as to why it took so long to recall 1.6 million vehicles with ignition problems, after a new review of federal crash data shows 303 deaths linked to air bag failure on two of the models recalled. The review&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/?p=5739\">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":[1,10,78,15,1317,46,38],"tags":[600,728,1444,1115,608,1161,661],"class_list":["post-5739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-california-lemon-law","category-chevrolet","category-general-motors","category-lemon-alert","category-pontiac","category-saturn-cars","tag-chevrolet-problems","tag-gmc-problems","tag-ignition-switch-defect","tag-manufacturer-defect","tag-pontiac-problem","tag-repeated-automobile-problems","tag-saturn-problems"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739","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=5739"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5781,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5739\/revisions\/5781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calemonlaw.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}