GM’s Corvette Recall No Spontaneous Decision

Letter to Ephesians: Think twice about being envious of that $100K Corvette barreling down the street. GM is recalling thousands of the muscle car as a cooling fan that runs even after the ignition is shut off may be able to turn it into a $1 Krispy Creme.

The WSJ coverage was blaming the dramatic scenes being reported at numerous filling stations on a “strange gas-pumping defect” that is making Corvettes “go up in flames.” A Shawn Conner, we’re told, “was refueling his high-end 2024 Corvette at a gas station in early June when the car spontaneously caught on fire, torching it in a matter of minutes.” Well, as it turns out, the combustion wasn’t all that “spontaneous” after GM reluctantly figured out that the supercar’s explosion was most likely due to the super gas pump that wouldn’t quit after shut off, thereby blowing gas onto the super-heated engine & triggering the owner’s worst nightmare. A video Conner posted on Facebook of the incident has him asking, “Anybody have any experience or ever heard of anything like this before?”

Well, a GM employee HAD and “another social media post identified multiple cars that had burst into flames while pumping gas during a 30-day period.” Soon after, “a GM-owned Corvette test vehicle also caught fire.” But it was only months later that the company recalled 23,000 of the car icons. While GM insists, the issue is a “rare occurrence,” its investigation report suggests “faulty filling-station pumps that don’t automatically stop appear to be a contributing factor.” Huh? Has anyone heard of ANY other brand car catching fire spontaneously while filling up?

Davd Soul