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Complaint Review: GENERAL MOTORS CORP - DETROIT Michigan

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  • GENERAL MOTORS CORP 300 RENAISSANCE CENTER DETROIT, Michigan U.S.A.

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RE: U.S. AUTOMAKER GENERAL MOTORS CAUSED MY 19 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER'S DEATH AND GOT AWAY WITH IT.

NOTE: PLEASE BARE WITH MY TYPING SKILLS AND GRAMMER
NEITHER ARE ONE OF MY BEST TALENTSAND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME

IT HAS BEEN OVER 5 YEARS SINCE MY DAUGHTER AMANDA , 19 YEARS OLD DIED IN AN AUTO CRASH.THE CRASH OCCURED DEC. 29, 1999 DUE TO A DEFECT OF THE AUTO WHICH GENERAL MOTORS BECAME AWARE OF IN MARCH, 1999, 9 MONTHS BEFORE THE CRASH.

GENERAL MOTORS HAD CHOSEN TO NOTIFY OWNERS WHO LIVED IN NORTHEN STATES BUT NOT OWNERS IN SOUTHERN STATES.
THE DEFECT WAS- IT WAS POSSIBLE THE ENGINE CRADLE MOUNTING BOLTS MAY BREAK LOOSE AND CAUSE THE STEERING RODS TO BREAK AND THE DRIVER TO LOSE CONTROL OF THE VEHICLE. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED IN MY DAUGHTER'S CASE.

I DID NOT BECOME AWARE OF THE DEFECT UNTIL MORE THAN 2 YEARS AFTER THE CRASH.AT THAT POINT I CONTACTED GM. THE FIRST GM REPRESENTIVE I TALKED TO WAS VERY NICE AND CARING UNTIL I ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DEFECT. THEN, I STARTED GETTING A RUN AROUND ABOUT WHO I SHOULD BE TALKING TO, AMD OT THIS ONE AND NOT THIS ONE AND ETC.

ALL AT ONCE I RECEIVE A LETTER FROM GM. STATING THAT I SHOULD CONTACT A CERTAIN GM REPRESENTIVE WITHIN 10 DAYS. IF I DID NOT THE MATTER WOULD BE CLOSED.I TRIED AND TRIED AND WAS UNABLE TO CONTACT THIS CERTAIN REPRESENTIVE. IT WAS LIKE THEY WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WAS UNABLE TO CONTACT HER.

AT THAT POINT I BEGAN CONTACTING ATTORNEYS IN ALABAMA. THEY WERE ALL VERY INTERESTED UNTIL I TOLD THEM IT HAD BEEN MORE THAN 2 YEARS SINCE THE CRASH. THEY ALL SAID IT WAS JUST TO BAD CAUSE THE STATUE OF LIMITATION HAD PASSED.

ALL OF THIS, THE DEVASTATING DEATH OF MY DAUGHTER WHO HAD JUST MONTHS BEFORE GRAUATED AND HAD PLAN TO GO TO COLLEGE AND BECOME A MEDICAL LAB TECH LIKE ME. SHE WAS NOT ONLY MY DAUGHTER BUT ALSO MY BEST FRIEND. WHEN HER MOTHER AND I DIVORCED IN 1994, AMANDA HAD CHOSEN TO LIVE WITH ME. WE WERE VERY VERY CLOSE. I WAS THE FIRST TO HOLD HER WHEN SHE WAS BORN AND CARRIED HER FROM DELIVERY TO THE NURSERY. WE HAD A DAUGHTER-FATHER BOND LIKE NO ONE HAD EVER KNOWN. SHE WAS MY LITTLE GIRL.

WHEN I STARTED GETTING THIS 2-YEAR STSTUE OF LIMITATION LAW I COULD NOT BELIEVE IT. THOSE FIRST TWO YEARS I WAS ABSOLUTLY AND TOTALLY IN SHOCK AND COULD HARDLY THINK AT ALL. STILL, TO THIS VERY DAY, NOT ONE SINGLE DAY GOES BY WITH MY THINKING OF AMANDA. I STILL HAVE TO TAKE ANXIETY MEDICATION, BLOOD PRESSURE MEDICATION AMONG OTHERS. MY HEALTH HAS DEMINISHED AND SUFFERED A HEART ATTACK AND OPEN HEART SURGERY ALL BROUGHT ON BY STRESS. AMANDA'S BROTHERS AND SISTER ARE JUST NUMB AND CAN'T OVERCOME THE VOID THIS HAS LEFT IN THEIR LIVES. AMANDA'S GRANDMOTHER GREIVED ALL THE WAY UP TO HER RECENT DEATH. ALL OF US WHO WERE SO CLOSE TO AMANDA HAS FALLEN APART AND SUFFER FROM DAILEY GREIF, ANXIETY, STRESS AND DEPRESSION.

I DECIDED TO FILE A COMPLAINT AND INVESTIGATION WITH NHTSA. FINALLY AFTER 3 MORE YEARS AND A REFILING OF THE COMPLAINT, NHTSA FOUND THAT THE DEFECT CAUSED THE CRASH. THEY DID APPLOGIZE FOR TAKING SO LONG.THIS STILL DIDN'T CHANGE THE 2-YEAR STATUE OF LIMITATION.

I CONTACTED ALABAMA SENATOR RICHARD SHELBY AND NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE.IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS I DECIDED TO CONTACT SOMEONE IN MICHIGAN SINCE THE VEHICLE WAS MANUFACTURED IN THAT STATE.I REMEMBERED GEOPHREY FEIGER THE ATTORNEY WAS LOCATED IN MICHIGAN. I HAD WATCHED HIM ON COURT TV AND WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH HIM AND THINKING HE AS SO CARING AND COMPASSIONATE ABOUT DOING THE RIGHT THING.BUT, TO MY DISMAY, THE ATTORNEY I WAS IN CONTACT WITH IN FEIGER'S FIRM NOT ONLY TOSSED THE 2-YEAR STATUE OF LIMITATION AT ME BUT ALSO, AND I QUOTE,I AM UNWILLING TO LOOK AT ANY DOCUMENTATION CONCERNING THIS CASE. ALTHOUGH IT WAS NOT FEIGER THAT I TALKED TO, IT REALLY HURT MY FEELING THAT THIS OTHER ATTORNEY WAS SO COLD.

STILL DETERMINED, I CONTACTED THE MICHIGAN STATE ATTORNEY GENERALS OFFICE, CHRIS COX. OF ALL THE PEOPLE I HAVE CONTACTED HE WAS PROBABLY THE MOST CONCERNED, CARING AND UNDERSTANDING BUT WAS UNABLE TO HELP ME. HE DID REFER ME TO THE MICHIGAN MEDIATION RESOLUTION COURT. HE TOLD ME TO CONTACT THEIR OFFICE IN WAYNE COUNTY WHICH IS WHERE GM IS LOCATED.

I MAILED THEM ALL THE DOCUMENTATION I HAVE FROM THE BEGINNING OF THIS ORDEAL UNTIL PRESENT. AFTER ABOUT 3-4 WEEKS, I CONTACTED THEM AGAIN AND FINALLY RECEIVED A CALL FROM THEM. WE WENT OVER EVERYTHING AND HE SAID HE WOULD GET BACK WITH ME IN ABOUT A WEEK. HE SAID HE WOULD TRY TO SETUP A MEETING WITH GM.THAT HAS BEEN OVER A MONTH AGO AND I HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING FROM HIM.

WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MICHIGAN ATTORNEY GENERAL, IT SEEM EVERYONE THINKS I SHOULD JUST FORGET ABOUT IT.
THE 2-YEAR STATUE OF LIMITATION HAS PASSED BUT 2 YEARS, 20 YEARS, 100 YEARS, MY LOVELY DAUGHTER IS GONE FOREVER. I HAVE LOST ALL THAT WAS SO, SO DEAR TO ME BECAUSE GM DECIDED NOT TO WARN MY DAUGHTER.

SOME MAY SAY, OH, I'M JUST LOOKING FOR MONEY. WELL, AT THIS POINT, YES, I AM. I WANT GENERAL MOTORS TO TAKE RESPONSIBILITY AND YES I WANT THEN TO PAY THE MAXIMUM IN MONETARY SETTLEMENT.NO ONE CAN ANSWER THAT QUESTION. HOW MUCH IS YOUR CHILD WORTH. TO ME, NO AMOUNT OF MONEY WOULD EVER BE ENOUGH. I JUST WANT GM TO FEEL A SMALL FRACTION OF THE DEVASTATION OF MY FAMILY AND MYSELF.
I HAVE COME TO THE REALIZATION THAT THIS SITUATION WILL NEVER MEAN AS MUCH TO ANYONE AS IT DOES TO ME.

UPDATE AS OF 04/19/2006- WAYNE MEDIATION HAS DROPPED THE CASE BECAUSE GENERAL MOTORS HAS REFUSED TO MEDIATE. GENERAL MOTORS DOES NOT CARE THAT THEY TOOK MY DAUGHTERS LIFE.

Tommy
Winfield, Alabama
U.S.A.

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#5 Consumer Comment

The real problem is that

AUTHOR: Thomas - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Sunday, January 21, 2007

GM and Ford are trying to compete with Toyota and Honda, et al.

By Japanese law, I am told (I cannot read Kanji), the CEO of a Japanese company cannot be paid more than 6X of the compensation of the company's lowest-paid employee. The pay numbers I have seen do support this claim.

Japanese execs do get chump-change when compared to the many millions of dollars the GM and Ford execs take, meaning that more money 'per car sold' is taken by the US execs leaving less net money 'per car sold' available for product development and quality.

The Japanese engineering and design teams are usually 3X as big as the comparable US engineering and design teams. Those Japanese technical people are very capable, and they also have the luxury of investing enough time to carefully attend to the design details as well as being able to specify higher quality materials for their products.

As GM's market share dwindles (while the execs' pay does not) these problems will only get worse as more money per GM car sold will be taken by the execs.

But the GM engineers and designers will be the ones who get beaten up- not the execs.

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#4 Consumer Comment

The real problem is that

AUTHOR: Thomas - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Sunday, January 21, 2007

GM and Ford are trying to compete with Toyota and Honda, et al.

By Japanese law, I am told (I cannot read Kanji), the CEO of a Japanese company cannot be paid more than 6X of the compensation of the company's lowest-paid employee. The pay numbers I have seen do support this claim.

Japanese execs do get chump-change when compared to the many millions of dollars the GM and Ford execs take, meaning that more money 'per car sold' is taken by the US execs leaving less net money 'per car sold' available for product development and quality.

The Japanese engineering and design teams are usually 3X as big as the comparable US engineering and design teams. Those Japanese technical people are very capable, and they also have the luxury of investing enough time to carefully attend to the design details as well as being able to specify higher quality materials for their products.

As GM's market share dwindles (while the execs' pay does not) these problems will only get worse as more money per GM car sold will be taken by the execs.

But the GM engineers and designers will be the ones who get beaten up- not the execs.

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#3 Consumer Comment

The real problem is that

AUTHOR: Thomas - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Sunday, January 21, 2007

GM and Ford are trying to compete with Toyota and Honda, et al.

By Japanese law, I am told (I cannot read Kanji), the CEO of a Japanese company cannot be paid more than 6X of the compensation of the company's lowest-paid employee. The pay numbers I have seen do support this claim.

Japanese execs do get chump-change when compared to the many millions of dollars the GM and Ford execs take, meaning that more money 'per car sold' is taken by the US execs leaving less net money 'per car sold' available for product development and quality.

The Japanese engineering and design teams are usually 3X as big as the comparable US engineering and design teams. Those Japanese technical people are very capable, and they also have the luxury of investing enough time to carefully attend to the design details as well as being able to specify higher quality materials for their products.

As GM's market share dwindles (while the execs' pay does not) these problems will only get worse as more money per GM car sold will be taken by the execs.

But the GM engineers and designers will be the ones who get beaten up- not the execs.

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#2 Consumer Comment

If it were sexual predator there exists no statute of limitations.. Sad story

AUTHOR: Steve - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Sunday, January 21, 2007

Tommy I am very saddened and I believe you are correct and this is wrong for any consumer in such circumstances.

Right now, we are trying to get GM to answer to major problem Firestone uncovered on our 4 year old vehicle that can also lead to accident or death, and GM tells me there is no problem and say unless it was a GM delaership who services that vehicle, they have no further interest nor care and closed our complaint case!

We are told in a recent service on our 2002 Grand Prix that both front ABS rotor hub assemblies and bearings are bad and cannot be aligned unless replaced. They told us this is a recurring problme they have seen from GM cars like this and yet GM tells me they have no recalls nor any knowledge of such problmes before our complaint. ALso, Firestone said the intake manifolds were leaking coolant inot oil crankcase which will cause engine to blow up! They said GM went from 8bolt system and high quality gasketing materisl to a 4 bolt system now, and poor quality gasket material that they have seen goign bad on enarly new vehicles; yet GM also tells me they have no recalls nor any knowledge about this.

We cannot afford several thousands dollars in these major repairs and still owe a loan on this car, and this is the "high quality" GM parts they talk about? I think not! Had this vehicle been 10 years old or something, fine. But for such a opyung car to have such potential major problmes we are told are a defect from GM's manufacturing, will it take for me or my wife or son getting in ana ccident because the hubs fall off or we are killed? This is our only vehicle right now.

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The Statute of Limitations is There for a Reason

AUTHOR: Buddy - (U.S.A.)

POSTED: Thursday, April 20, 2006

First of all, I am sorry for the loss of your daughter. The pain you are going through comes through in your writing. I was a paralegal for a defense firm in California for 25 years, and we defended a lot of one-vehicle accident cases, usually representing the dealership. A statute of limitations is there to make sure that cases can be tried fairly. After two years, witnesses move around, physical evidence can be lost, etc. Did anyone ever examine your daughter's car to make sure that the defect which was present in those models actually caused the crash? It may have been something else completely, even though those particular models of autos may have had that type of defect. An accident won't be caused until the motor mounts actually fail, and did anyone examine the vehicle to see if the motor mounts had failed, or are you assuming that because there was an accident in this vehicle, that must be the cause? I am very surprised that you weren't contacted by half a dozen Plaintiff's attorneys willing to take on your case immediately after the crash. Also, is your daughter's mother still alive? She could have filed a lawsuit within the two years, which you could have joined. In California, and I don't know about your state, the statute of limitations can be "tolled" if you are unable to proceed with the lawsuit. In your case, if you could have proven that you were medically disabled after the accident and could not have proceeded with a lawsuit, there was a chance that the statute of limitations could have been tolled. I would sit down with one last lawyer to see if you have a case against any of the lawyers who just turned you down flat early in your quest because of the statute problem. There are ways to get around this, and I'm surprised one of them did not suggest filing a lawsuit, and if it was dismissed due to the statute problem, proceeding to the Court of Appeal (or your state's equivalent) to plead for equitable relief from an unjust situation. Good luck to you, and I hope you can get some help from someone.

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