Edmunds.com | Inside Line | Auto Observer Your Account | Help | Directory
You are here:
![[F]](http://a332.g.akamai.net/f/332/936/12h/www.edmunds.com/media/townhall/webxicons/site.gif){kind=small}
Forums
Automotive News & Views United Automobile Workers of America (UAW)
16738 messages, Last post on Dec 03, 2009 at 10:07 AM
You are in the Automotive News & Views Forum. Your Hosts are steve_ & claires
|
|
|---|---|
|
Replying to: jimbres (Nov 22, 2008 10:18 am) There is an "S" on the shifter for sports mode. That causes the gears to 6000 plus RPM. There is a snow button which starts the car off in third gear. The current Opel Omega comes with a 4, 6, or VETT 8. Its considered one of the most reliable cars in Europe. Dealers weren't too keen on training their service people. The oil cooler is in the middle of the engine. In a bath of coolant. If oil was detected in the coolant, the heads were assumed to be leaking. Never-mind a leak in the oil cooler unit. By 2001 most of the issues were fixed (most were electrical). With the exception of the crank sensor. Engine heat would over time, melt the wire insulation. $60 part, $500 to $700 to get the dealer to fix this. Then there was a heater control unit which failed from time to time, cheap plastic, and it was a $40 part and hundreds to have the dealer fix it. Then the plastic overflow tank would break, also common to the Mini Cooper. The timing belt on these cars last 100,000 miles and $2500 to $3500 for the dealer replacement. Tensioner, pulleys, bearings, water pump, belts, and other preventive maint is done. This is common in Volvo's and many other euro cars, but here in the states seen differently. So the CTS is suppose to be the Americanized version. Now the UAW gets to make it too. |
|
|
Replying to: dallasdude1 (Nov 22, 2008 10:29 am) A Harvard education and a good line of BS and you can be President of just about any company or the President of the United States of America. Grades are not available to inquiring minds. You pay, you pass. Most CEOs did work up through the ranks somewhere before becoming CEO. Unless their dad started the company. I do agree that the money given to executives that run a company into the ground is just WRONG. When you have people sitting on multiple Boards of Directors, you get a lot of the good old boy treatment. I vote for your raise and you vote for mine.
|
|
|
Replying to: dallasdude1 (Nov 22, 2008 9:09 am) Given that Saturn is now a set of rebadges except for an imported Opel, I'd say the experiment is a failure and there is no need for Saturn. |
|
|
Replying to: jimbres (Nov 22, 2008 10:18 am)
|
|
|
|
|
Replying to: gagrice (Nov 22, 2008 11:16 am) Columbia and Harvard are extremely hard to get into. However, the legacy is alive and well. An endowment will do wonders also to by pass merit. A reverse of affirmative action. Prescott Bush might have been brilliant, but his genetic traits didn't carry down to his offspring two generations away. Science and political science are two different disciplines. One is open to many and the other is limited to few. Country Club/golf course gathering has only held mankind down in the wheeling dealing/nepotism/cronyism where inbred mongoloids champion their own agenda of promoting their incompetent offspring. Lobbying for the unworthy friends and offspring of the well to do bypasses the competitive system and dooms us to failure.
|
|
|
|
|
Replying to: nvbanker (Nov 22, 2008 3:15 pm) Does it come with a 6 and an 8? Do the rear seats have electric controls? Does it have a first aid kit? Would Lady Di have survived the wreck in it? Face it you can buy two Caddy's for the price. Its rather just plain looking and would only appeal to older folks. |
|
|
Replying to: dallasdude1 (Nov 22, 2008 7:42 pm) If it is my illusion it is also yours. That is exactly what I said. You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours. Something the SEC should be able to control.
|
|
|
|
|
Replying to: steve_ (Nov 22, 2008 8:08 am) IUI /A\ \W/ |
|
|
|
|
Replying to: gagrice (Nov 22, 2008 7:52 pm)
|
|
|
Replying to: dallasdude1 (Nov 22, 2008 8:06 pm)
|
|
You are here:
Forums
Automotive News & Views United Automobile Workers of America (UAW)
New? Join Now!
Forum Tools
Search Forums
Browse by Vehicle
Browse by Board
Browse by Topic
Today's Chats
