GM SATURNS review: VTi Transmissions

Merchant Law Group has an Electronic Form for Canadians Participating in the GM Saturn Class Action

Although GM publicly acknowledged an unusually high failure rate for GM Saturn Vti transmissions, it did not recall them for replacement with a transmission having a strong chain to solve the problem. Canadians fill in their information in the E-form

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
PRLog (Press Release)-– Jul 28, 2009 – by: Valerie Hall

Merchant Law Group alleges that the problem with Saturn Vti transmissions is that they use a weak belt and are prone to failure and therefore inherently defective.The Statement of Claim for the Canadian GM Saturn Vti Class Action includes the proposed grounds alleging acts, omissions, wrong doings, and breaches of legal duties and obligations which were unfair and unconscionable business and trade practices and breached statutory warranties of fitness, acceptable quality, merchantability, and durability.

Canadians are explaining what happened to them when their GM Saturn transmission failed, on the Merchant Law Group LLP electronic form. http://www.merchantlaw.com/saturn.html

Many Canadians have suffered monetary loss after trading in or selling GM Saturns having Vti transmissions. The GM Saturn Class Action asks the Court to compensate past and present Saturn Vti owners and leasers for all their financial loss due to GM transmission failure. The plaintiffs allege that the Vti Transmissions were defective due to defective design and negligent manufacture by GM. Consequently they prematurely fail, making the vehicles inoperable, unsafe, and necessitating costly repairs.

Saturn Vti failures have resulted in evasive maneuvers to prevent rear end collisions, chain reaction accidents and loss of life. It is unconscionable that GM has neglected its responsibility to properly remedy the problem and has knowingly put the owners and their families back into defective vehicles needlessly and recklessly endangering their lives.Merchant Law Group GM Saturn Class Action was filed on behalf of first and subsequent owners and leasers, in all regions of Canada, who have suffered economic loss because of these multiple breakdowns and repairs.

The rights of owners and leasers of Saturn cars having Vti transmissions are protected across Canada by the GM Saturn Vti National Class Action Suit against GM which is General Motors Corporation and General Motors Canada Limited.

Merchant Law Group filed the Canadian Multi-jurisdictional GM Saturn Vti Class Action in Regina Saskatchewan on Nov. 24, 2008 for Saturn vehicles containing Vti Transmissions on behalf of current and former Canadian owners and leasers. It was also filed on Dec.9, 2008 in Superior Court in Montreal Quebec. Between 2002 and 2005, GM manufactured, sold and distributed Saturns, including the [protected] Saturn Vue, and [protected] Saturn Ion containing Vti Transmissions.

The Vti Transmissions used a continuously variable transmission -CVT- . Unlike conventional automatic transmissions, which use traditional gears to shift at a few fixed points, a CVT shifts through the use of a belt or chain that runs through pulleys that move closer together or farther apart.

The Saturn vehicles lose power at random in town at intersections and elsewhere on public roads. The Saturn VTi transmission failures create an enormous risk to human life, wherever Saturns having Vti transmissions are driven. GM refuses to honour the new car power train warranty and extended warranty and fails to properly diagnose, repair and replace the defective vti transmissions with safe transmissions.

GM publicly acknowledged an unusually high failure rate for GM Saturn Vti transmissions, but it did not recall them for replacement with a transmission having a strong chain to solve the problem. GM returned to customers cars with transmissions that have repeatedly stopped operating properly on highways at high-speed without warning, causing sudden and massive deceleration and enormous risk for loss of life, in order to generate error codes.

The plaintiffs allege that GM neglects the rights of the consumer to be warned about this allegedly defective and dangerous transmission. Withholding this important information prevents informed consent before the consumer enters into a new vehicle contract with GM Canada.

Everyone who wants to participate in this Saturn Vti National Class Action needs to write comments and details explaining exactly what happened when their Saturn Vti transmission failed including a description of how Saturn and GM reacted to them.

If you now own, lease or in the past owned or leased a Saturn vehicle with a Vti transmission that failed complete the online form at the link that follows in order to assert your legal rights in this matter.
http://www.merchantlaw.com/saturn.html

MERCHANT LAW GROUP LLP,
2401 Saskatchewan Drive
Regina, Saskatchewan
S4P 4H8
E.F. Anthony Merchant, Q.C.
Chief Counsel for the Plaintiffs
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Owen Falquero
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Montréal, Québec
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http://www.cba.org/ClassActions/Class_2008/quebec/pdf/12-09-2008_GeneralMoters.pdf