General Motors has halted the sale of 2015 Chevrolet Corvettes after discovering flawed airbags and parking brakes.
GM ordered dealerships housing about 800 2015 Corvettes not to sell any of the cars after GM discovered flawed airbags and improperly installed parking brakes.
General Motors also halted additional shipments of 2015 Corvettes, up to 2,000 units, from its Bowling Green, Ky., factory to prevent the cars from entering into the sales channel. The car maker is inspecting the cars in the factory for use of a below-average component that connects the airbag to the steering wheel, Wall Street Journal reports. Additionally, there is an issue with parking brakes cables that increase the risk of the cars rolling away.
A public recall notice hasn't been announced yet, as GM's latest move is a way to prevent recalls by identifying and fixing the problem before the cars are sold to consumers. If General Motors misses any cars in the due course, a public recall in the same interest will follow.
The company sold 2,700 Corvettes in August, four times more than the same period last year. The sales of Corvette are more than 200 percent higher in the U.S. this year with the total tally reaching 23,483 cars, according to Autodata Corp.
Since both issues were identified quite early, no incidents of accidents or injuries were reported linked to the fault, GM spokesman Alan Adler told Business Insider.
General Motors is on a close watch by federal regulators after a major blunder in delaying an ignition switch recall . The carmaker's 2.19 million small cars were affected with faulty ignition switches, which disabled the airbags and risked driver and passenger lives. The issue was linked to at least 13 deaths. The company has already issued 60 different recalls just this year with surrounding cost up to $3 billion in the past two quarters. The car maker has paid $35 million in fines to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
GM did not reveal when it plans to resume sales of 2015 Corvettes.
