{"id":31782,"date":"2010-10-15T15:02:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedetroitbureau.com\/?p=31782"},"modified":"2010-10-15T15:02:24","modified_gmt":"2010-10-15T19:02:24","slug":"gm-recalling-over-300000-impalas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/2010\/10\/gm-recalling-over-300000-impalas\/","title":{"rendered":"GM Recalling Over 300,000 Impalas"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_31783\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31783\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-31783\" href=\"\/2010\/10\/gm-recalling-over-300000-impalas\/2010-chevrolet-impala\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-31783\" title=\"2010 Chevrolet Impala\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/2010-Chevrolet-Impala-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31783\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">More than 300,000 late-model Impalas are affected by the recall involving potentially defective seatbelts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Problems with the front seatbelts in 2009 and 2010 model-year sedans has led General Motors to announce the recall of 303,100 Chevrolet Impalas.<\/p>\n<p>The problem has been under investigation since mid-2009, the automaker announced, though GM says it has no reports of deaths or injuries related to the problem.<\/p>\n<p>According to an announcement from the maker, the &#8220;front safety belt webbing may not have been properly secured to the lap belt anchor pretensioner mounted to the side of the seat nearest the door. As a result, the safety belt may not restrain the occupant as intended during a crash.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There have been 32 reports of problems involving the belts requiring warranty repairs.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19206\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19206\" style=\"width: 152px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/about\/subscribe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19206\" title=\"\/about\/subscribe\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/click-here-button-small-11.jpg\" alt=\"\/about\/subscribe\" width=\"152\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/click-here-button-small-11.jpg 152w, https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/click-here-button-small-11-150x91.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 152px) 100vw, 152px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19206\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">News, Reviews and More!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A letter will go out to owners later this month.\u00a0 In all, 192,922 Chevrolet Impalas from the 2009 model-year will be impacted by the recall, along with 110,178 from the 2010 model-year.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the recall will affect 19,000 vehicle sold in Canada.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Owners will be asked to take their vehicles to a dealer for inspection and, if necessary, for repairs.\u00a0 The company will make repairs at no charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300,000 late-model Impalas are affected by the recall involving potentially defective seatbelts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[151],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31782"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31782"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=31782"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=31782"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=31782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}