1st Generation Solstice News and Notes

Bite-sized content about all the recalls, lawsuits, and investigations surrounding the 2006-2010 Solstice.

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    a href="https://www.carcomplaints.com/news/2018/federal-gm-ignition-switch-case-dismissed.shtml">federal case against GM’s handling of their ignition switch recall might be over, but a judge has left the door open for owners to sue the automaker for economic losses if they want.

    Judge Jesse Furman ruled on claims of "manifest defects," or what claims can proceed based on if the defect manifested itself to a customer. The consolidated lawsuit is a massive 1,700 pages of arguments that GM should pay any vehicle owner who owned a recalled car equipped with bad ignition switches.

    If you own (or have owned) one of the affected cars, this judge says you should be able to sue GM even if problems related to the ignition switch never affected you personally.

    Normally I’d say there’s no way that’ll hold up in court … but it just did.

    This post originally appeared on ChevroletProblems.com.

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    's a flexible sensor mat in the passenger seat of your car and it's primary job is to evaluate who's sitting in the seat and turn the airbag on (for adults) or off (for kids).

    Well, turns out it's not so flexible since GM announced the sensor can get damaged by – get this – sitting on the seat. Oh, what a world.

    After nearly 1,000 complaints to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), GM recalled 91,000 Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky cars.

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    S government has been petitioned to investigate alleged airbag defects in the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky.

    If you're thinking yep, that sounds familiar, you wouldn't be alone. The top 3 complaints about the Solstice are all concerning the airbags. If it looks like a defect, and smells like a defect...

    Specifically, the petition wants answers on why the passenger seat sensor mat kinks, folds, and eventually breaks.

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