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Replying to: gfcar (Jun 26, 2008 6:21 pm) |
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Replying to: gfcar (Jun 26, 2008 6:21 pm) Thanks. Semper Fi |
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Replying to: ddidio (Jun 27, 2008 11:59 am) Thanks. Semper Fi |
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Replying to: donnyr (Jul 01, 2008 3:10 pm) level. Maybe they think you won;t go into a tirade if you are talking to a woman.At least that has been my experience here. Ms. Tolver probably doesn't realize that in a combustion engine, that a "lubrication issue" is a damn serious problem. So she can sound more sincere when she delivers the message. As I said I have received a recall notice, so I called the dealer service to make arrangements to have that done, also I have the issue with the windshield wipers just coming on for no reason. Guess what the answer for that was? Yep, they have no records indicating that complaint has ever been logged before. Now it happens that the service rep I'm talking to is the same one that I have been working with on the engine issue. I tell him that that has not gone away and that it is actually getting worse and that I am going to want to try and resolve this. When he asks how, I say that GM will either honor the warranty and fix or replace, or I can contact the states attorney generals office and file a complaint under the state's lemon laws. He asks, in a nice way, why I am not satisfied with the answer I was given on this matter. I say, OK, let's imagine for a second that I get tired of this and just decide to sell or take my truck to trade it . A person who wants to buy it or the used car inspecter for the place I want to trade it, starts it up and hears this banging noise. They ask what it is and I tell them that GM says that it is normal. They ask do I think it's normal and I say no. They ask how GM is addressing this and I say they are not because they say it is normal. Do you think these guys will buy or take my truck on trade? Me neither. He didn't say anything, except he will look into it when I bring the truck for the recall. What I can't understand is why they wouldn't just drop a new engine in these units . That can't be that much of a deal. The dealer that I bought this truck from is a local distributor for GM engines. They have a warehouse full of them. The salesman told me that. They say that they can't do anything in these matters unless it comes down from the mothership. And I really don't blame the dealer. Your right when you say that normal would mean that all these engines would do this. I guess I'll know more after I take it in next week.
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Replying to: ddidio (Jul 03, 2008 10:58 am) Take it home, unload it, and limp it into the dealer and say, "Here it is, NOW REPLACE THE ENGINE"!!! The only reason I say risky, is because they'll probably try to weasel out of it, but you can always tell them, "You said the noise was normal, so I just drove it, like you told me to do......"
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Replying to: leadfoot4 (Jul 04, 2008 6:41 am) You are going to purposely destroy a vehicle and then try to blame GM? That's called fraud and if they find out, not only will it void the warranty, but you will have destroyed a brand new vehicle and will still owe alot of $$$. ddidio, how long is the engine without lubrication? Does it only do it for a split second at start-up? Or does it continue for some time. I had an old Ford Escort that I bought brand new in High School that made that horrible noise, but it was only at start up for a split second. It was also a lubrication issue and Ford would do nothing to correct the problem. I owned that car for 12 years and never had a problem with it. In fact I only got rid of it because I needed a family size car. It still ran great when I sold it. I don't want to make your situation sound like it's nothing, but it may not be a big deal. Now if it doesn't lubricate after start-up and your driving it down the road, that's a different story...That IS serious. |
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Replying to: leadfoot4 (Jul 04, 2008 6:41 am) your idea is something that a man from work suggested for me to do. altho it maybe something someone might do out of pure anger or frustration, but this idea has not crossed my mind in the least. How can I expect GMC to deal with me honestly if I were to be have like that.I simply want GMC to deal with me honestly as they expect me to, Even if GMC doesn't live up to it's end of the bargain, my action will be clean. if they can live with it i can live without it. as for the response that you got on your note ,I can only say that If he is willing to stand behind that eng or if he can state for a fact that that eng will last as long as his eng did I'll take him up on his offer . otherwise the eng has a lubrication issue as stated be GMC themselves FIX IT OR REPLACE IT and resolve this issue so it will no longer be an issue on a new truck with under a thousand miles on it. semper fi |
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Obviously, a couple of you "gentlemen" have gotten a bit riled over my suggestion that the engine be "driven hard" in order to bring the problem to a head. I guess that I have to admire your desire to "honest and forthright" with a dealer that is neither diagnosing/fixing your truck, nor helping you get resolution from GM. You realize of course, that it is in their best financial interest to "blow you off". Call me an "idiot", but a few years down the road, assuming you still have the truck, when the warranty has expired, as well as the defective engine, YOU will be paying for the replacement engine. Who will be the idiot then?? |
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Replying to: leadfoot4 (Jul 05, 2008 4:22 am) I did not call you an idiot nor did I suggest that you were crazy. My point was that couldn't possibly bring myself down to their level and feel right about this issue. Thanks for your input. by the same token the other man suggestion to just drive it and forget it is equally as wrong SEMPER FI
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Replying to: donnyr (Jul 05, 2008 4:42 am)
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