At General Motors, brand new cars are breaking down at the factory. Specifically, the fault lies on the assembly line, where V8 engines cannot be repaired.
V8 engines from General Motors, used by Cadillac, among others, are experiencing widespread engine failure problems. The failures are already occurring on the assembly line, and General Motors is reportedly having difficulty repairing the defective engines.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) has launched an investigation into General Motors after thousands of reports of problems with the manufacturer's 6.2-liter V8 engine, which is causing the engine to suddenly fail and fail to operate.
This is what The Drive writes.
The problems with the V8 engine have led to a shortage of spare engines at General Motors. Sources at General Motors say there are also problems producing parts for the engines, preventing both the repair of existing engines and the production of new ones.
As a result, many cars with V8 engines are left unusable. This has particular consequences for car owners who depend on their car for work. The V8 engine is used in a number of models from Chevrolet, Cadillac and GMC.
Americans are far from the only ones who have problems with otherwise brand new cars. In China, owners of cars from a brand new car brand are complaining that their cars are so bad that they can't be repaired. Even the brand's repair shops are having to give up. Read more about it here .
In other places, it is a lack of parts that is holding drivers back. A Chinese woman, for example, cannot get a new battery for her electric car, even though the car is so new that it has only been two years since it left the assembly line.
She actually uses the car to get to work. But the capacity of the current battery is so low that it has lost a full 90 percent of its range.
Other car brands have problems with battery packs that can be real fire bombs. Audi has in a number of cases, for example, had to tell owners of the e-tron, Q8 e-tron and Q4 e-tron models not to fully charge their cars' batteries.
Instead, owners should never charge the battery packs to more than 80 percent. In Norway, however, an e-tron owner has been told that he must wait a full 9 months for an Audi workshop to have time to look at the car.
Other brands such as Jaguar have recalled a number of problematic electric cars affected by similar faults. The recalls come after several of the cars have gone up in flames.
