The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has announced that General Motors is recalling over 400,000 pickup trucks due to malfunctioning brake lights. While the automaker is unaware of any accidents resulting from the problem, trucks also outfitted with cruise control lose that functionality as well. Trucks affected are the 2004-2006 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon pickups and 2006 Isuzu i-280 and i-350 trucks.

http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.a...41744&nav=0Rce

 

Huh. I would have thought it would have been their SUV's. I've seen more GM SUV's running around with a brake light out than anything else.

Just my observations.

 

Not the 88-98 C/K trucks and SUVs???

Once again, the General stepped into the pile of youknowwhat to where those stupid taillight circuit boards went to hell and my mom had to buy these aftermarket taillights that don't use the circuit boards. I was going to get'em for her Christmas persetn since I knew the replacement circuit board she got would go to hell one day....the other side did recently and she warmed up really quickly to her new lights.

Thinking of it, my uncle's 96 C1500 has had left tailight issues recently. Blasted!

I guess instead of being foolish and paying over $100 for the factory pieces to have the same issues later on, we'll toss $65 to an aftermarket vendor. Fair enough.

Hmmm, I did see the new body style Chevy in front of me today after my testing session that had a lefty taillight out.

As if General Mistake needed reasons to pile on over about why their sales are slipping. If you can't get tailloights right....

 

Alfred,
You act as if GM is the only one with electrical problems. What about Fords little problems, like trucks going up in flames, because of the cruise control switch on the master cylinder.
Ed G

 

edgl i'm with you .every company has their problems.but my 96 GMC has never had problems with the taillights other than changeing 2 bulbs in 11 years.

 

My '94 C1500 had a recall for a defective brake light switch. I wonder if this recall is for the same "high quality" Delphi part. Actually, the switch never failed on my truck, but they did change it out under the recall.

Jim

 

I'd rather have a tailight out than my truck becomming a BBQ. All companies have recalls, even the Japanese. But, you won't read about them in the mainstream
"America can't do anything right" media.

 

But that's not SAFETY related

Don't you always park your truck out in the field with no dead grass around?

Come to think of it, I've seen quite a few late-model Chevies with a brake light out. Not complete malfuction, but lots of what looked like blown bulbs.

 

Krewat,
Good post. I had a good laugh. I think Ford did want everyone to park in empty places just in case their trucks did became BBQs
Ed G

 

This is exactly what I was howling about in my last Honda recall thread. Honda has to recall a number of new Civics because of "improperly installed accelerators, which could stick and cause the car to crash," and it doesn't even hit the news wires. GM recalls pickups because of brake light bulbs (that's what it's about), and they make the front page.

 

Amazing, ain't it?

 

GM's wiring seem to small for the amps. load that their wiring is capable of carrying.

 

I see a lot of daytime running lights out on the chivvies

 

Define irony:

Ford supporters making fun of ANYONE over a recall.....LOL!!!

C'mon guys and gals........I bleed Ford blue but we do not have the greatest record concerning recalls.

 

Why spoil the fun?