Typhoon V6-262 4.3L Turbo (1993)
Technical Service Bulletin # 93C09
Date: 930601
Defect Involved and Vehicle Information
GMC NUMBER: 93-C-O9
GROUP: 7A - Automatic Transmission
DATE: June 1993
SUBJECT:
SHIFT CONTROL CABLE BREAKAGE
MODELS:
1993 GMC TYPHOON (RPO Z79)
The National Traffic and Motor Vehicle Safety Act. as amended, provides that each vehicle which is subject to a recall campaign of this type must be
adequately repaired within a reasonable time after the owner has tendered it for repair. A failure to adequately repair within 60 days after tender of a
vehicle is prima facie evidence of failure to repair within a reasonable time.
If the condition is not adequately repaired within a reasonable time, the owner may be entitled to an identical or reasonably equivalent vehicle at no
charge. or to a refund of the purchase price less a reasonable allowance for depreciation.
To avoid having to provide these burdensome solutions, every effort must be made to promptly schedule appointments with owners and to repair their
vehicles as soon as possible. As you will see in reading the attached copy of the letter which is being sent to owners, the owner is being instructed to
contact the GMC Truck Division Consumer Relations Office if the dealer does not remedy the condition within five days of the mutually agreed upon
service date. If the condition is not remedied within a reasonable time. they are instructed how to contact the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration.
DEFECT INVOLVED
PAS Inc., the final stage manufacturer of the 1993 GMC Typhoon. has determined that a defect which relates to motor vehicle safety exists in CERTAIN
1993 GMC Typhoons. The Transmission Shift Cable end fitting may separate from the cable exterior conduit. In the event this were to occur, an inability
to change or select gears in the transmission, regardless of the position and manipulation of the interior gear selector lever, would result.
VEHICLES INVOLVED
Involved are CERTAIN 1993 GMC Typhoons built within the illustrated VIN breakpoints.
The specific vehicles involved in this campaign have been identified by Vehicle Identification Number (VIN) Computer Listings. These listings are
furnished to all involved dealers with the campaign.
DEALER CAMPAIGN RESPONSIBILITY
Dealers are to service all vehicles subject to this campaign at no charge to owners, regardless of mileage, age of vehicle, or ownership, from this time
forward. Dealers are to inspect and correct all affected vehicles in new and used vehicle stock prior to their sale.
Whenever a vehicle subject to this campaign is taken into your new or used vehicle inventory, or it is in your dealership for service in the future, you
should take the steps necessary to ensure the campaign correction has been made before reselling or releasing the vehicle.
Owners of vehicles recently sold from your new vehicle inventory are to be contacted by the dealer and arrangements made to make the required
correction according to instructions contained in this bulletin.
If the name and address of the owner of an involved vehicle was unavailable to GMC Truck Division at the time of campaign initiation, the dealer must
determine the owner's name and address from the dealership sales records. Please provide this information directly on the second copy of the listing next
to the applicable VIN so that our records may be updated and the appropriate notification mailed to the owner. This second copy should then be
submitted to the address listed below in the previously supplied yellow campaign envelopes.
GMC Truck Division
General Motors Corporation
101 Union Street
Plymouth, Michigan 48170
OWNER NOTIFICATION