Grand Am 3.4L

• Automatic transmission
• 31,690 miles

The turn signal multi function switch failed at only 50,000 km (30,000 miles)??? Only six months after the factory warranty ran out! This is clearly a manufacturing defect and GM should have replaced it free of charge. The switch itself sells for over $400.00 which is outrageous considering nobody should be needing one with so few miles on it and the labor is unknown. This started when GM Goodwrench replaced the radio assembly because it ate a cd. When the car was returned to me the time could not be set on the radio, the steering column came loose a day later and wouldn't lock and the cruise control no longer worked and the left turn signal would intermittently not cancel. I returned the vehicle to GM Goodwrench and they fiddled with the steering column for a couple of minutes and got it to lock. They never repaired anything else and procrastinated until weeks later the warranty ran out. I email several complaints to GM and was treated so badly that I gave up. I figured out how to set the clock on the radio by disconnecting the battery and waiting until 12:00 to reconnect it. The cruise works now, but intermittently. Then, last week the turn signal relay started going nuts and now clicks repeatedly, rapidly over and over when I drive. I took the car to GM Goodwrench and the told me that it will not be covered and that it will cost me a grand to fix. This is a turn signal switch which is not something that should fail until the car has hundreds of thousands of mile on it, not 50,000. I will never by a current model GM again. GM has a lot of work to do to repair their image which kind of sucks because I prefer to buy North American vehicles so that my money stays on this continent.