TEHRAN, November 07 -4The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Tuesday it was investigating whether General Motors Co (GM.N), should recall an additional 1.7 million sport utility vehicles due to an issue with windshield wiper failures.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club (YJC) - The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said on Tuesday it was investigating whether General Motors Co (GM.N), should recall an additional 1.7 million sport utility vehicles due to an issue with windshield wiper failures.
GM, the largest U.S. automaker, had recalled 367,800 2013 GMC Terrain and Chevrolet Equinox SUVs in the United States in August 2016 to address the problem.
But after receiving 249 complaints since then about similar problems in vehicles from five other model years, the federal agency said it was looking into whether the recall should be expanded to include a further 1.7 million vehicles from the 2010-2016 model years in the United States.
No crashes or injuries relating to the issue have been reported, GM said.
The automaker said it was cooperating with the NHTSA review.
The 2013 GMC Terrain and Chevrolet Equinox SUVs were recalled “because warranty data showed a higher-than-expected failure rate,” and the company has continued to monitor field data on other model years of those vehicles, GM said.
“We will work with NHTSA on an updated review of the data for the vehicles covered by the query,” GM added.
Source: Reuters
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