Another recall for Toyota Matrix and Pontiac Vibe

[MI_Roger]

This one is troublesome. My brother-in-law told me today that of the five GM Dealerships in Grand Rapids MI, the Dealerships tasked with performing all maintenance/recall work on the dead GM brands such as Pontiac, only one will be attempting this recall work.

Apparently the Dealerships doing this need some expensive and specialized body shop equipment to cut a specific hole in a specific location of the floor pan to perform the work. Dealerships without a captive Body Shop are not really qualified, others are saying too expensive.

These caveats probably apply to Toyota stores too.

 

[mikered30]

What years or generations? What kind of work for the hole?

 

[scotth324]

And what are they fixing up? My grandparents have an 05 Matrix. Wonder why it is so hard to drill a hole.

 

[The Critic]

Link?

 

[MI_Roger]

I don't know any more specifics. I searched a site that posts GM's recalls and didn't find anything new for the Vibe that sounded as if the repair would require cutting a hole (not drilling) in the body pan. (I did find a fairly recent recall that requires removal of the engine from the car to replace cam shaft drive sprockets on the Toyota engine)

Maybe this is preliminary data sent to the Dealers so they can "gear up" with the tools and training to handle a known recall problem that has not been distributed to the public yet. But it sounded as if this would affect all cars, not just those with a rare problem - such as the noisy timing chain requiring engine removal.

Or maybe this is a cheaper way to replace cam shaft sprockets by cutting a hidden hole in the unibody rather than extracting the engine from the car.

 

[daves87rs]

Well, time to scratch the Vibe off the used car list...

 

[JHZR2]

Any new news on this?

 

[goodtimes]

It must be for a stick to push on the ground for braking, due to unattended acceleration caused by shoving floor mats on top of the gas pedal. Or to spit through, one of them.

 

[daves87rs]

Might look this up...

 

[mongo161]

Any more news on this proposed recall?