Sentences with phrase «with ignition switch problems»

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Problems with the ignition switch were identified within the company as early as 2001 in a pre-production report for the model year 2003 Saturn Ion, according to documents provided last year to the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.

Why didn't GM recall vehicles with faulty ignition switches as soon as it knew about the problem?

U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara also told a news conference Thursday that the criminal probe into the company's deadly problem with small - car ignition switches continues.

Victims, or their families, must prove that a problem with the GM ignition switch was the «proximate cause» of a crash that caused death or injury; GM has said the ignition - switch fault in small cars like the Chevrolet Cobalt and Saturn Ion, caused 54 accidents and 13 deaths.

The biggest problem with the Sky wasn't the packaging but the ignition switch.

If this works, this is likely a problem with the ignition switch or starting mechanism controlled by the ignition switch.

Other problems with GM processes meant that this defect continued, such as an instance of changing the ignition switch part without changing the part number.

This would point towards a problem with the ignition switch circuits, in that turning the key has no effect - do any of the other electronics work?

The problem could also be in your ignition switch or with the cars immobilizer but I'd rule out a low battery first.

A faulty ignition switch is the most common cause of the problem you are having, but it is not necessarily always the cause; for instance, you could have an issue with your ignition lock cylinder, or linkage.

In May 2014 the NHTSA fined the company $ 35 million for failing to recall cars with faulty ignition switches for a decade, despite knowing there was a problem with the switches.

An issue with the micro switch inside the shifter mechanism could cause a problem where the ignition key will be hard to remove because it won't turn into the OFF position.

GM says this isn't a problem with the ignition switch, but with the key fob itself.

Yet this is not the first Honda recall that we've seen with this same ignition switch problem.

As many as 428,000 models of the Honda Accord, Honda Civic and Honda Element were recalled on Monday due to a problem with the interlock lever of the vehicle's ignition switch.

The legal field of «products liability» has been highlighted recently with the announcement that many previous years of General Motors» vehicles have had ignition switch problems.

Ultimately, we predict that GM will end up paying hundreds of millions of dollars for this problem: it had designed an ignition switch could only be turned off with a significant amount of torque.