General Motors Is In Hot Water With Angry Customers Again

Mar. 20, 2022 7:11 PM ET byMichael Butler Industry News /21 Comments

A new court case alleges GM knew about bad paint jobs and didn't bother doing anything about them.

In the age of late-stage capitalism, corporate greed knows no bounds. It is a well-known fact that many American companies exploit cheap labor to manufacture goods at low costs. Why? To generate more profit for shareholders. We've seen these dubious tactics play out in the automotive industry too, and one of the biggest players, General Motors, has been found bending consumers over a barrel on numerous occasions. Who can forget the class action lawsuit against GM for themassive fire debaclethat affected the Chevrolet Bolt EV not so long ago? Or that time it ignored a veryserious issue with the Chevrolet Camaro? Well, the automotive giant's latest scandal has just hit, andChevrolet Silveradoand Tahoe owners are not happy.

As reported byThe Drive, owners of GM trucks and SUVs built between 2015 and 2019 are banding together and want GM to face the music over what they claim to be defective paint jobs. According to the angry owners behind a lawsuit, GM "knew, or should have known" that these vehicles were plagued with "bad paint" issues. The owners are baying for GM to either fix the paint, replace their vehicles, or buy them out. The case has been filed under the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, under Riley et al., vs. General Motors LLC. The case claims that certain vehicles manufactured between 2015 and 2019 are susceptible to paint that will "microblister, delaminate, peel, fade, and bubble without any external or environmental influence." All this on cars that are not even a decade old yet.

The lawsuit includes the following GM vehicles manufactured between 2015 and 2019: TheChevrolet Tahoe, Suburban, and Silverado, and theGMC Yukon, Yukon XL, and GMC Sierra. All four plaintiffs had purchased their vehicles under GM's three-year, 36,000-mile bumper-to-bumper warranty but were declined a repair under warranty request by dealers, even though some GM dealers admitted that these vehicles suffered from poor paint quality issues. GM has officially acknowledged the issue but is currently only offering to cover one-third of the cost on two of the plaintiff's vehicles. The issue of paint quality on these vehicles has gathered steam, with large community forums likegm-trucks.comlighting up over the issue. Many feel that GM has kept the issue under wraps, and is only trying to limit the fallout now that the issue has been made public.