Oh man, this is not at all what GM needs. ...

 

At least it was something as simple as a battery cable. Easy fix. I remember when I used to have to readjust my ES300 battery cable every couple of weeks or my car wouldn't start. In my case it was just an old cable and terminal, but simply either way.

 

Now who would have thought the notion that the dealers would repair the problem was something that needed to be mentioned in a press release on the recall? Oh, and don't forget, per the current administration, everyone in this country is prepared to go further into debt to cover warrranty repairs on these cars for their owners.

Does that mean we have to pay the towing bill as well?

 

FAIL


Reason #158 why I would never buy American

 

Be easy on them, they only had like 5 years to work out the kinks on this car.

 

LMFAO


No kidding right


Why doesn't GM just concede that they suck at life and stick to strictly producing Z06's and ZR1's

 

LOL. Nothings changed but the date. At a time of total economic crisis it has to be obvious that quality will have to suffer.....again.

 

I have had GM vehicles in the past and grew up with them. I simply cannot stand GM any longer. That being said, there was a problem with the 2IS when it was introduced, and they would not allow any dealer to deliver the IS for (i think) a couple of weeks. It had to do with the accelerator pedal.

 

Easy kids, its not that big of a news story unless you hate GM and are looking for a reason to bash them. My 2005 Honda mini-van had 8 recalls or "service notices" the first year.

 

My 07 GS 350 has about 5 or more bigger ones, yet none of them stop the car from being drivable in any way. The only thing that actually needed replacing was a faulty bluetooth module.

The first gen 03 Pilot we used to own had about 2-3...one of them was the addition of a transmission cooler...so it was semi-serious. We had it done, but no issues relating to it ever came up. Nothing ever broke and all that it required was routine maintainance over the span of 6 years/100,000 km.

Before than we had a 97 Chevy Blazer with a couple dozen TSBs. Here is what went wrong that caused the car to stall or not start or cause a safety issue:
- exploding battery - it had a huge hole in the side...car could be jumped but would die if you used the brakes or the transmission did a shift. Brakes don't work without it and it stalled on a hill!
- biodegradable transmission - caused a neck snapping surge between 1st and 2nd gear, virtually undrivable
- brake failure - my father nearly got into a huge accident due to this...he managed to pump the brakes and get it to stop
Non critical:
A/C died
alternator died
I don't believe any of these were TSBs.

So I would take your Honda mini-van any time before anything from GM. I wouldn't touch anything GM after that harrowing experience.

 

In this case, it wasnt the cheap Chinese cable but its was the moron American Engineers.

 

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh- so SS stands for SUPER SCREWED!!

 

something else to look at ---- in San Antonio, Toyota has an open communication system with its assembly line workers to mention ANYTHING that appears to be a problem or may turn into a problem -- I'm guessing in the GM plants if someone suspects something is not right the lowly assembly line worker can do nothing about it..."its not your job to design it, just build it"......again, just a guess on my part, but policies like that have to change!

 

I think the difference between the 2 factories is that Toyota would actually try to do something about the problem, where as GM would say we want to hear your problem but do nothing about it.

 

Saw the new SS in a shopping center parking lot yesterday. Orange with a lot of ugly black stripe and hood graphics. I'm sure these cars will be common around here in a few weeks.