The last year or two has seen a lot of information surface about recalls and the possibility of recalls in the automotive industry. Today’s news is surrounding General Motors (GM) and their problems with headlights.
Headlights are of course a critical part of a vehicle and any issues with them are serious. Unfortunately for GM, there are hundreds of thousands of vehicles having problems in the driver module. What does this mean? Running lights and other “low beam” related tasks (not turn signals or high beams) could be low or fail completely – not something that you want to have happen!
General Motors is recalling 273,182 midsize SUV’s and Buick LaCrosse sedans in the U.S. because the low-beam headlights can cut out, temporarily or permanently.
Besides 2006 to 2009 LaCrosse sedans, the recall includes a raft of SUVs under various GM brands. They include the 2006 and 2007 Chevrolet TrailBlazer and 2006 TrailBlazer EXT; 2006 and 2007 GMC Envoy and 2006 Envoy XL; 2006 and 2007 Buick Rainier; 2006 to 2008 Saab 9-7X and 2006 to 2008 Isuzu Ascender midsize SUVs.
The problem has been traced to the headlamp driver modules. If they aren’t working properly, the low-beam headlamps and daytime running lamps could intermittently or permanently fail to illuminate, GM says. But this condition does not affect the high-beam headlamps, “marker lamps,” turn signals, or fog lamps.
The headlight recall brings the total number of GM recalls this year to 79, the company said in a running tally that it keeps. The total number of vehicles involved is 24.5 million. GM’s 79th recall: Bum headlights on 273K cars, SUVs
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