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161 messages, Last post on Nov 08, 2009 at 2:12 PM
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Replying to: gmonroe (Aug 17, 2009 4:51 pm) ____________________________________________________________________ I would certainly get a second and/or third opinion. |
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I have a 2007 Yukon with 52,000 miles n it. We are on vacation 3 states away.Monday evening I was pulling into traffic when BANG!,a mini-explosion shook the s--t out of the Yukon,and revved it to 6 grand.I immediately pulled off the road to figure out what happened-no forward gear-thought Ihad a broken u-joint.Found out I did have 1 and 2 gears by manually shifting into each gear,slipped in 3,and absolutely no drive. Luckily was only about one mile from our rental home.CalledOn-star,and had them tow as I did get it back "home".The next morning the dealership worked us in as I explained our dilemma.They jumped right on it and the tech pulled the transmission,but while doing so told me these 2007's where his "bread and butter" and hardly a day or two went by until he was doing another transmission repair.When I told him the symptoms,1 and 2 only,he said I can almost guarantee you what happened, the sprag self-destructed.Sure enough,a couple of hours passed and the tech calls and tells me that indeed the sprag was DOA.Luckily, they had all the parts on the shelf but one,and they had it overnighted.He said he does so many 2007's that he has the parts dept. carry all the transmission parts for a "worst-case scenario"(lucky me!). Anyway,a BIG THANK YOU to Victory Chevrolet in Southern Shores N.C.and especially John Wells,the tech who not only showed me what had happened as well as the damaged parts,and took time to explain what he did to repair the transmission. Most tech's simply don't take/have time to do this,but seeing how far we were from home and the time restraints we were facing in our rental house-this happened Monday night and John had our vehicle repaired by 1:00 Wed.Like people here have said,you don't expect a transmission to puke in a $55,000 vehicle .(He also told me as soon as he got my Yukon done he has it's two sisters out on the lot with the exact same problem-imagine that!)THREE IN ONE WEEK!
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Replying to: mgoodfellow (Aug 20, 2009 8:36 pm)  tidester, host SUVs and Smart Shopper
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Replying to: tidester (Aug 21, 2009 5:54 am) |
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Replying to: rockman59 (Aug 31, 2009 6:26 pm) Transmissions and engines used to wear out, not experience some catastrophic failure that is based on very bad and poor design. GM customers also used to last but not any more. There still are some "red necks" out there who still believe GM makes the best vehicles but facts are too strong and many GM fans are switching to imports as $55 000 vehicle indeed should not experience a catastrophic failure of anything in it. If GM would respect their loyal "audience" and go and fix catastrophic failures like transmission "explosions" under warranty even when warranty is out they would have a chance to survive but this is not happening and a lot of people have finally had it with GM. I have a Tahoe now but my next vehicle will come from Germany. Arrie |
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Replying to: arrie (Sep 09, 2009 6:17 am)
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Replying to: arrie (Sep 09, 2009 6:17 am) 
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Replying to: kiawah (Sep 09, 2009 6:36 am) Arrie |
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Replying to: ahightower (Sep 09, 2009 3:56 pm) I got one of their 2004 model year pieces of crap, which now is good as I fixed all problems myself while it still was under warranty. Well, one problem remains. The steering shaft still needs to be lubed every 40 000 miles or so as I do not have the new part fix in place as the dealer refused to replace it under warranty and I refuse to pay for it since it should be changed under warranty. I have read on many posts where shaft has been replaced for them under warranty but by the time GM finally had the new shaft designed I had too many miles on mine. Problem with defective part existed since I bought the truck but I could not get it done. I bought the lube kit, which is not available any more, but I use it whenever I need and re-lube the shaft. No more GM for me after this one. Arrie |
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Carefull the host of this sight might get mad at what you say. Being that all things need to be looked at in different ways. (PUKE) Oh and we should not bash the lieing dealers that cover for these junk mobiles saying things like "I"ll call GM myself and find out why you had to put 5 transmissions and 4 steering shafts in your car". I cant even go back to the dealer I bought my 2004 tahoe s #t box from because I might have a bowel movement on the money hungry ,don't care lieing dirt bags desk! YOU bet GM knows there are problems why the hell are they bankrupt? I looked in to the new equinox with the cash for clunkers sitcker price and 6.9% you tell me if gm cares Toyota 1.9 and cash back and I love the car. CJ
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