GM Offers Dealers Bounties For Ignition Switch Repairs

General Motors is rolling out a series of initiatives to accelerate the fix of 2.6 million cars with faulty ignition switches, including offering dealerships bonus money for speedy repairs.

GM is offering $250 in credit redeemable at an online gift shop to both service and parts managers at dealerships that are able to install at least 90 percent of the ignition-switch replacement kits shipped to them by July 7, according to a June 13 e-mail sent to all U.S. Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac dealerships.

The "Ignition Switch Recall Completion Initiative" also will randomly select 50 qualifying dealerships to receive $4,000 in incentive credits, to be split between parts and service managers. One store will be randomly picked for its parts and service managers to share $10,000, according to the notice to dealers.

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MattDarringer - 6/20/2014 4:49:55 PM

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So the technicians bust their asses to meet the goal and the guy at the parts desk and the noob that entered the information into the computer get the reward? How bleeping moronic is that. Why would they reward two people who have to do NONE of the actual work? Sheer idiocy. It should have been reach the 90% goal and every technician in the shop get $1000.

TehShibbs - 6/23/2014 6:28:36 PM

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.....because the tech will make money hand over fist. Say GM pays 1.2 hours to install these switches. Tech's first job will take 1.2 hours, and every time after that will be less and less time as the tech gets faster.

I don't know about you, but if I could come to work and get paid 50 hours for working 40, I'd sign myself up twice.