The contact owns a 2007 Cadillac Escalade esv. The contact stated that when attempting to open any of the doors, the handles became separated. The vehicle was taken to the dealer. The technician diagnosed that the handles were plastic and because of various types of weather the holes for the screws had widen causing the handles to separate from the vehicle. The handles were replaced but the failure recurred multiple times. The manufacturer was notified of the failure. The approximate failure mileage was 500.

- Maywood, IL, USA

Chrome plating on interior door handles has peeled resulting in a razor-blade like effect causing injury to hands when using door handles. Senior citizen age 78 injured hand while using door. Despite this being a known defect, GM refuses to replace these handles at their cost and has not issued a recall. These handles were replaced approximately two years ago because of the same defect and the new ones installed have suffered the same problem. According to NHTSA action number EA10004, "in July 2010, GM issued a special coverage policy (scp 09239) on the base vehicles to extend the warranty coverage to 10 years/100K miles. Recent data indicate that the base population complaint and injury reporting have subsided since the implementation of the scp campaign. In June 2011, GM added the remaining interim population (Sep-Oct 2006) to the scp." Cadillac has informed me that my vehicle, despite having this defect, and despite being listed in the NHTSA report, is not a part of the scp. Why is that?

- Long Beach , CA, USA