By Sharon Terlep, Wall Street Journal - General Motors Co. said on Friday it would recall 413,418 U.S.-built Chevrolet Cruze sedans to modify a faulty part that could allow liquids to become trapped in the engine compartment and cause fires.The company said no crashes, injuries or fatalities have been reported as a result of the problem. The Cruze is built and sold globally, but only those cars built in Lordstown, Ohio, and sold in the U.S. and Canada, and several hundred exported to Israel are affected.
"The most important thing for our customers to know is that we are proactively working to assure the Cruze is the safe and durable car they purchased," said GM's vice president of global quality, Alicia Boler-Davis.
All Cruzes with manual and automatic transmissions built in the U.S. from September 2010 through May of this year are included in the engine-shield modification.
Federal regulators opened a preliminary investigation in April following two engine-compartment fires in Cruzes.
Separately, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is investigating complaints that power steering on Ford Motor Co.'s 2011 Explorer SUVs can fail after 15 drivers said the vehicle suddenly lost its power-steering assist, making it harder to steer the SUVs. The problem could affect 83,000 Explorers. No crashes or injuries have been reported to NHTSA, which announced the probe on its website Friday.
Regulators also are looking into complaints about engine stalling in some Chrysler Group LLC 200 midsize sedans. That probe includes about 87,000 of the cars from the 2011 model year that have 3.6-liter V-6 engines.
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