Recall - Rear Prop Shaft Tube Welds Off Location: Overview
GMC NUMBER: 93-C-10GROUP: 4A - Prop Shaft
DATE: October 1993
SUBJECT:
REAR PROP SHAFT TUBE WELDS OFF LOCATION
MODELS
1993 SIERRA K 10703 PICKUP TRUCKS BUILT AT FORT WAYNE
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act, as amended, provides that each vehicle which is subject to a recall campaign of this type must be adequately repaired within a reasonable time after the owner has tendered it for repair. A failure to adequately repair within 60 days after tender of a vehicle is prima facie evidence of failure to repair within a reasonable time.
If the condition is not adequately repaired within a reasonable time, the owner may be entitled to an identical or reasonably equivalent vehicle at no charge, or to a refund of the purchase price less a reasonable allowance for depreciation.
To avoid having to provide these burdensome solutions, every effort must be made to promptly schedule appointments with owners and to repair their vehicles as soon as possible. As you will see in reading the copy of the letter which is being sent to owners, the owner is being instructed to contact the GMC Truck Division Consumer Relations Office if the dealer does not remedy the condition within five days of the mutually agreed upon service date. If the condition is not remedied within a reasonable time, they are instructed how to contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
DEFECT INVOLVED
General Motors has determined that a defect which relates to motor vehicle safety exists in CERTAIN 1993 K 10703 pickup trucks (short wheel base half-ton 4-Wheel Drive) may have been built with one-piece rear prop shafts having tube to yoke welds off location. In this condition, the attachment of the front and/or rear yoke to the prop shaft tube may not withstand normal driveline torque inputs causing the tube to separate from the yoke. If the tube were to separate from a yoke while the vehicle was moving, the prop shaft could cause damage to the underbody sheet metal of the cab, or possibly detach from the vehicle.
To prevent this condition from occurring, dealers are to inspect the vehicles to determine if a Saginaw Three Rivers plant prop shaft was installed and, if so, replace it.
VEHICLES INVOLVED
Involved are CERTAIN 1993 Sierra K 10703 pickup trucks built at Fort Wayne Assembly. The involved vehicles are listed as shown.
DEALER CAMPAIGN RESPONSIBILITY
All unsold new vehicles in dealers' possession and subject to this campaign MUST be held and inspected/repaired per the service procedure of this campaign bulletin BEFORE owners take possession of these vehicles.
Dealers are to service all vehicles subject to this campaign at no charge to owners, regardless of mileage, age of vehicle, or ownership, from this time forward.
Owners of vehicles recently sold from your new vehicle inventory with no owner information indicated on the dealer listing, are to be contacted by the dealer, and arrangements made to make the required correction according to the instructions contained in this bulletin.
This could be done by mailing to such owners a copy of the owner's letter accompanying this bulletin. Campaign follow-up cards should not be used for this purpose, since the owner may not as yet have received the notification letter.
Whenever a vehicle subject to this campaign enters your vehicle inventory, or is in your dealership for service in the future, you should take the steps necessary to ensure the campaign correction has been made before selling or releasing the vehicle.
If the name and address of the owner of an involved vehicle was unavailable to GMC Truck Division at the time of campaign initiation, the dealer must determine the owner's name and address from the dealership sales records. Please provide this information directly on the second copy of the listing next to the applicable VIN so that our records may be updated and the appropriate notification mailed to the owner. This second copy should then be submitted to the address listed below in the previously supplied yellow campaign envelopes.
GMC Truck Division
General Motors Corporation
101 Union Street
Plymouth, Michigan 48170
OWNER NOTIFICATION
Owners will be notified of this campaign on their vehicles by GMC Truck Division (see copy of owner letter included with this message). A listing of owner names and addresses has been furnished to the involved dealers to enable dealers to follow up with owners involved in this campaign. This listing may contain owner names and addresses obtained from State Motor Vehicle Registration records. The use of such motor vehicle registration data for any other purpose is a violation of law in several states. Accordingly, you are urged to limit the use of this listing to this campaign.