Federal Court in Detroit (USA) won a class action lawsuit by General Motors has the car owners of Chevrolet Impala 2007-2008 years of manufacture. Americans need to compensate them for costs they were forced to suffer because of a malfunction rear suspension cars, says The Detroit News. Concern GM conducted a service campaign to eliminate this problem back in 2008, but then under review were only police cars. About 400 thousand civilian "Chevrolet" remained untested. The reason for the suit were complaints from car owners who regularly change tires on their cars because of faulty traction rear suspension. For example, one American was forced to put on a "Chevrolet" new tires when the vehicle's mileage was six thousand miles (about ten thousand kilometers). Previously, such complaints are received, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration USA (NHTSA): one of the owners of the "Impala" complained that the car mileage 41,000 miles (60,000 kilometers), he changed the tire three times already. Representatives of General Motors declined to comment on the claim, saying that while not familiar with it. However, they confirmed that in July 2008 was declared a service campaign for the Chevrolet Impala police cars because the rear suspension of the defect. However, they said, the design of the suspension of civilian and police versions are different. In the event that the court would force American concern to review 400 000 "Impala", as well as compensation to their owners the cost of regular replacement of tires, it will cost in the automaker millions of dollars.
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