The recall covers certain Cadillac Escalades and Escalade ESVs; Chevrolet Silverado 1500s, Suburbans and Tahoes; as well as GMC Sierra 1500s, Yukons and Yukon XLs between model years 2021 and 2024.
According to recall documents published by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, these vehicles share a gas engine that may have connecting rod or crankshaft component problems, due to supplier manufacturing or quality issues. This can lead to engine damage, and potentially failure, while driving — increasing crash risks.
Prior to failure, NHSTA documents warn, impacted drivers may be alerted of these issues through loud knocking or banging noises, the check engine light turning on and/or other driving performance issues, such as reduced propulsion.
“American cars are superior” they said. “Other countries should buy more of our cars” they said.
Toyota did it, Honda did it, everyone is doing it right now. Covid simply destroyed the modern manufacturing dogma and most of these companies have failed or not bothered to really recover from the supply chain collapse, since they were selling every single vehicle they could make for close to four years straight.
I don’t think anybody said that since maybe the 1970s when Japanese vehicles started flooding the US.
So when metal shaving caused tons of Toyota Tundras to shit an engine in less than 1000 miles. Where was this statement?
People don’t like facts? Ok. Honda had exploding air bags. Toyota had improperly cleaned millings after producing the engines. VW lied about smog regulations. Let’s not get started about Land Rover. Oh and Jaguars had terrible QA.
Shit happens folks.
Ford literally let people die from a shit Explorer design.
Expect more recalls, these things usually come in batches as other OEMs jump on after the 1st person taking the biggest news cycle hit!
My Cadillac CT5 has a recall for the transmission failing and causing the wheels to lock up.
The solution is a software patch that puts the car into limp mode preemptively if the car thinks that problem might happen. Then you know you need to go buy an identically-broken new transmission at your own expense.
More enshitification. Making parts cheaper to increase profits.
