{"count":1,"message":"Results returned successfully","results":[{"odiNumber":11590691,"manufacturer":"General Motors, LLC","crash":false,"fire":false,"numberOfInjuries":0,"numberOfDeaths":0,"dateOfIncident":"02/01/2024","dateComplaintFiled":"05/25/2024","vin":"1GKS2GKC8KR","components":"POWER TRAIN","summary":"GM vehicles manufactured between 2015 – 2019 equipped with GM’s 8-speed transmission are equipped with a defective transmission design of GM’s Hydra-Matic 8L90 transmission or Hydra-Matic 8L45 transmission, which causes vehicles to suddenly lurch forward, shudder, and experience significant delays in acceleration.   GM not only knew about this pervasive issue but developed a fix for it in 2018 – namely a transmission flush it calls Mod1a. However, GM made the business decision in 2019 to forgo recalling all impacted vehicles (approximately 2 million) to receive this flush, which would have cost GM about $305 per vehicle for a total $592 million, and instead decided to limit the flush to only unsold Cadillacs and trucks in certain states where it expected customers to complain within their warranty. Furthermore, GM never alerted existing customers of the issue or the fix and only addressed the issue if the customer was under warranty and complained about the shudder.  GM marketed and sold these 8-speed automatic transmission vehicles as having “world-class performance,” lightning-fast and smooth shifting, along with improved fuel efficiency, and instead sold defective vehicles.”  These conditions make it difficult to safely merge into traffic or back out of a garage/driveway.  Even more troubling, the transmission defects cause the vehicle to delay downshifting and decelerating when the brakes are depressed.   The affected vehicles include Chevrolet Silverado (2015-2019); Chevrolet Colorado (2017-2019); the Chevrolet Corvette (2015-2019); the Chevrolet Camaro (2016-2019); the Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV (2015-2019); the Cadillac ATS, ATS-V, CTS, CT6, and CTS-V (2016-2019); the GMC Sierra, Yukon, and Yukon XL, and Yukon Denali XL (2015-2019); and the GMC Canyon (2017-2019).","products":[{"type":"Vehicle","productYear":"2019","productMake":"GMC","productModel":"YUKON XL","manufacturer":"General Motors, LLC"}]}]}