While driving my vehicle my heated seats were on. However, I began to feel an unusual amount of heat and realized the seat had now started to burn. I immediately turned off the seat warmers. A saw a hole was now also burned through my jacket. When I called gm to set up an appointment for a different recall, I was asked to mention this issue to my dealer when I took my car to the dealership for recall. The dealer indicates this is on a different electrical circuit and not the same one being recalled and could therefore not assist me.of course, I can no longer use the seat heater as I am fearful of a full blown fire! Can you assist me?
2008 Pontiac G6 seats complaints
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The driver side seat broke when I sat in it.the seat now leans to the right and rest against the center console. I had a gm dealership look at it and they said there is a broken weld on the right side and they would need to replace the seat frame at a cost of $1,000 (parts and labor). They said this is a safety issue and I should replace it to avoid possible injury in case of an accident. I don't think a seat weld should give way after 93,000 miles under normal operating conditions. I have been the primary drive of this vehicle and I'm considered in my weight range at 160 pounds.
The service airbag light comes on and so does the tire inflation warning at start up and stays on.. This use to be occasionally and then not come on the next time you started it ...now it does it almost continually..also the seats electric height adjustment has broken free of the base on the floor...the weld has broken on the tube on the base of there car...I see so many other car owners with the same exact issues yet no one is addressing them or issuing a recall...theses issues should not be fixed at the owners expense when gm knows there is an issue and a seat in a car should never have welds fail this is a major safety issue..these seats would never hold up in a crash.
My driver seat is loose on the right hand side. There is something broken, possibly the frame. I checked with other g6 owners, and they have filed complaints here for the same issue, so I wanted to add my vehicle as a complaint for this also.
I went to go start my car to let it warm up and turned on the driver's and the passenger heated seats. I have used the driver's heated seat often. Ten to fifteen minutes later when I and my fiance went to leave and we opened the doors to my car we both smelled burnt plastic. The passenger side seat had burned a spot and there was a visible scorch mark on the seat. On monday, jan. 20, 2014 I called serra chevrolet in jackson, tn and they referred me to call general motors since my car was no longer under warranty. We then set up a time to have my car diagnosed in order to see if general motors would do anything to assist. On tuesday, jan. 21, 2014 I took my car to serra chevrolet to be diagnosed. At 5:00pm when I got off work and went to go get my car, serra chevrolet informed me that general motors would only pay roughly 10% and that the damage done and the cause of the malfunction was: "found high resistance in passenger heat element causing cushion and cover to burn". The malfunction with the seat also caused the airbag sensor in the seat to malfunction and now my service air bag light is on. Chrysler had this same issue and they recalled theirs. This is definitely a problem and should be recalled, someone could get hurt possibly even fatally. I do not feel that this, a malfunctioning heating element, is something that should be taken lightly and should be recalled.
In a parking space as the seat was being adjusted up using the power up/down button, the seat made a popping noise. Upon inspection I found the metal bar that attaches to the seat from the motor had split at the point where the metal ring is attached to the seat. Again the metal actually was fatigued enough to break when the seat was being adjusted. This seat is not adjusted often and I feel this to be a safety issue that should be addressed as I am not the only one to have this problem.
Tl* the contact owns a 2008 pontiac g6. The contact stated that the driver's side front seat warmer failed to function when activated. The vehicle was taken to an independent mechanic where the contact was informed that the seat heater module, the heated seat element back and cushion needed to be replaced. The technician also stated that there was evidence of a small thermal event in the heating pad which caused it to fail. The manufacturer was made aware of the failure and stated that the vehicle was not included in any recalls. The vehicle was not repaired. The approximate failure mileage was 29,304 and the current mileage was 38,650.
Drivers seat, electrical, adjustable (2 way) failed to adjust up/down and tension spring protruded into seat area. Removed seat to find weld broken at left rear adjustment bracket- broken/torn from steel seat support bar and bracket jammed against support bar. Tension spring attached to adjustment bracket could have caused grave injury if bracket not jammed against support bar assembly.
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