GM Puts An APB Out On Missing Sonic Brake Pads

Oops. Must have been built on a Holiday Eve.

Edited December 30, 201113 yr by Cubical-aka-Moltar

uh... new calipers, new rotors, new pads and a very thorough cleaning would be needed. This is a major mistake.

How do you not notice this during assembly?

I noticed they did the anouncment on Friday PM before a Holiday. I hope this helps.

Would really think that they will catch most of thes before they leave the plant or when they get to a dealer. You would have to notice at least loading or unloading it from the truck.

>>"This is a major mistake."<<

That is it, but not as bad as Ford - they left ALL the front brake shoes & hardware off every single Model T.

There is such a thing as "Pre-Delivery Inspection"... this is a fail all the way down the line. No way any of these cars should have gotten to the customer.

From what I have seen they only are looking for the 20-30 cars.

I would expect that they cars are not in customers hands and are either in a storage area, in trasport or just unloaded at the dealers. GM had to put the word out just to cover their butts if one some how did get to the public. While this is not good new it is better to put this call out vs a customer reporting it first.

Odds are the rear suspension may be done as a unit out side the plant and they just bolt the unit in. So many of these parts are assembled by outside vendors anymore. I would just think they would have caught it on the rollers at the end of the line. They do check braking on the little dyno run they have. There should have been some drop off in stopping.

Yeah it's a quarantine thing at this point more than likely still in the same group.

Stupid stupid stupid....