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Replying to: nacho07 (Apr 12, 2006 12:48 pm)
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Replying to: bigjohn101 (Apr 12, 2006 2:04 pm) Unless you're trying to get 400k miles out of the thing, the difference is likely so small you'll never know. IF you're planning to keep it a very long time, 3k miles is a good conservative number for the first change. If the filter plugs with wear metals in that short of period, buy the extended warranty because oil changes are the least of your worries. |
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I visited my dealer for replacement of the replacement seat heater button for the front passenger door as the original one had a burnt out light bulb at delivery and the replacement was scraped at the bottom, but they installed it anyhow. Unfortunately the second replacement was scraped too, so I asked dealer to order me yet another one. Apparently whoever is supplying these things isn't doing a very good job packing them (Lear? Delphi?). The front passenger door lock still does not work because the dealer had to pull the trim panel and it was replaced improperly when the button was replaced the first time. Over the weekend, I did not hear the clunking sound when starting in the morning so I am monitoring that. Still loving the Tahoe, though.
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Replying to: sebring95 (Apr 12, 2006 2:38 pm) From my post #659 -- (very carefuly take the first oil filter apart and look at filter element and in the bottom of the filter can ... you will be amazed at the AMOUNT of metal & stuff that you can see ... just imagine what you can't see and it's in YOUR engine too!)-- ... Over the years I have cut open & check the used filters .. from the FIRST oil change of many engines,..(GM,F,DCX,& foreign).. Everyone had excessive amounts of STUFF! .. IMHO.. Nothing good for long engine life & performance! |
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Replying to: landy man (Apr 12, 2006 4:13 pm) 
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2007 GMC Yukon (Karl on Cars) Steve, Host |
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| The dealership called. My Tahoe came in yesterday. I am picking it up this afternoon. I was given a build date of April 10th, so I was not expecting it so soon. Does anyone know how long it takes to build a car? | |
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Replying to: bigjohn101 (Apr 12, 2006 5:17 pm) If your filter is PLUGGED in 3k miles because of wear metals, buy the extended warranty. The engine might make it past GM's 36k mile warranty, but probably not 100k. We've had several GM trucks in our work fleet go close to 200k miles before we tossed them and the engines were fine with using the GM oil monitoring system. There's a lot of other things to worry about...but the engines aren't one of them.
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Replying to: stakeout (Apr 11, 2006 8:28 am) In 2003 I bought a 2003 Explorer for my wife out of town in Charlotte, NC (to get a unit with the Ford safety canopy). The deal was a straight sale and the exact price and interest rate had been agreed to over the phone in advance. After a lot of b/s about football, etc. the finance guy rolled out his bag of tricks. I finally had to tell him to shut up and gave him a deadline of 15 minutes to have everything completed or we were out the door. That got his attention and no more sales pitch on all the extra stuff. Said he would get fired. Ha! |
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Replying to: sebring95 (Apr 13, 2006 5:50 am) My brother who is a couple years older and has owned auto parts stores for 30-40 says the above is due to the quality of modern automotive oils and increased quality of pistons, etc. Also obviously better manufacturing quality control, tolerances, etc. He says even the most basic mineral 10W-30 oil now is far superior to oils from the 50s and 60s. He often cites his 80s model Delta 88 V-8 with 93,000 miles that was torn down to retrieve some part that had been accidently dropped into the engine--the factory hone marks could still be seen on the cylinder walls after 93,000! The biggest problem I have had with the first oil changes on 4.6L and 5.4L Ford engines is getting the gray Ford OEM filter off. In one case after breaking my favorite Ford filter wrench at home, I went to a Valvoline quick change and they couldn't move it either. Finally after 45 minutes or so and the manager crawling down in the pit to help, the guys got the OEM filter off. The Ford engine factory must put the OEM filter on by robot, impact wrench of something? |
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