GM Quailty is teh suck...

[Quixfire]

Owners of some of General Motors Corp.'s most expensive light trucks, including the GMC Yukon and Chevrolet Silverado, say the vehicles they paid more than $30,000 for may be worthless now because of loud, irritating knocking noises in their engines, lawyers tell the Free Press.

Free Press Story

 

[StageLeft]

They deserve nothing better for buying GM crap

 

[LordJezo]

Hmm..
Let's hope my Impala dosent crap out on me that soon!

 

[Vette73]

If it was that bad it would be covered under lemon law, BUT there was this in the peice....

"Current analysis of 150,000-mile and 300,000-mile engines that have exhibited cold start noise show no significant wear," Read said.

And despite the controversy, GM's trucks got high marks in J.D. Power and Associates' 2003 reliability and dependability surveys. The Silverado, for instance, ranked second in initial quality in the study's full-size pickup category.


But yea GM quality sucks.

 

[isekii]

what does initial quality have to do with overall quality?

 

[Analog]

GM Engines: Like a KNOCK (from the Anandtech Archives...)

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: Marlin1975
If it was that bad it would be covered under lemon law, BUT there was this in the peice....

"Current analysis of 150,000-mile and 300,000-mile engines that have exhibited cold start noise show no significant wear," Read said.

And despite the controversy, GM's trucks got high marks in J.D. Power and Associates' 2003 reliability and dependability surveys. The Silverado, for instance, ranked second in initial quality in the study's full-size pickup category.


But yea GM quality sucks.

Seems to be some conflicting things going on here. I read that as well, but I also heard the video at pistonslap.com and, as any article on the matter will confirm, this is really not good for the engine to be knocking like this long term. I would be upset if my car did that all the time and in fact GM is buying back the cars in some cases and if you put up enough of a fuss.

 

[TuffGuy]

Piston Slap

 

[T2T III]

may be worthless now because of loud, irritating knocking noises in their engines

Hmm ... I wonder if they bought the diesel versions of these vehicles.

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: TuffGuy
Piston Slap

For a bunch of "car guys" this board has a lot of people that don't know jack about engines or how they work

heh heh...a bunch of egos wanking off up there, for sure.

 

Remember what Roger Smith (CEO of GM back in the 80's) once said ;

We are not here to make cars, we are here to make money

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: TuffGuy
Piston Slap

Dead link

 

[conjur]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: TuffGuy
Piston Slap

Dead link

Yeah...I was surfing through their forums and started getting MySQL errors. Guess the ATOT effect killed it

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

I don't buy the "carbon" part of the story. Something else is going on......:sun:

 

[Quixfire]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero
GM Engines: Like a KNOCK (from the Anandtech Archives...)

I did search for this, sorry if this is a repost.

 

[Danman]

Originally posted by: Roger
Remember what Roger Smith (CEO of GM back in the 80's) once said ;

We are not here to make cars, we are here to make money

LOL, I can't believe he said that.

 

[Pepsi90919]

so it's piston slap. i have it in my 99 chevy S-10 and also in several other vehicles when cold. it doesn't affect anything and goes away when warm. BFD.

 

[psteng19]

Hmmm...
Totally unrelated but, our only GM, a Pontiac 6000LE crapped out on us prematurely.

We've gone Nissan and have never looked back

 

[JackBurton]

Originally posted by: cashman

Originally posted by: Roger
Remember what Roger Smith (CEO of GM back in the 80's) once said ;

We are not here to make cars, we are here to make money

LOL, I can't believe he said that.

Roger Smith was a fvcking moron! He was responsible for single handedly almost driving GM into the ground. How that man got to the top of GM, I have no idea!

 

[maziwanka]

booooo. im a lover of gm (chevy that is)

 

[GalvanizedYankee]

Originally posted by: Pepsi90919
so it's piston slap. i have it in my 99 chevy S-10 and also in several other vehicles when cold. it doesn't affect anything and goes away when warm. BFD.

It will be a BFD if the 2000,V6 Camero in our household starts making the presence of its pistons known..If the integrity of the piston ring to cyl wall alignment is compromised, engine life will suffer. Oil polluting the compressed charge can be a direct cause of "detonation"and its known consiquenses.............


:sun:

 

[WinkOsmosis]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
They deserve nothing better for buying GM crap

"My Maxima is buzzing" "My Maxima is making a funny bumping noise" "My Maxima is rattling"

 

[TuffGuy]

Originally posted by: Skoorb

Originally posted by: TuffGuy
Piston Slap

Dead link

back up.

concern about the holdens too