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Steve W.  
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 More options Mar 27 2008, 12:25 pm
Newsgroups: alt.autos.gm
From: "Steve W." <csr684...@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:25:40 -0400
Local: Thurs, Mar 27 2008 12:25 pm
Subject: Re: GM to pay in coolant repair cases
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Mike Marlow wrote:
> "Gosi" <gos...@gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:948f8a6d-9dc4-4862-894b-8721b184ad35@i29g2000prf.googlegroups.com...

>> This is very interesting.
>> Looks like GM sent out a time bomb with every car for 10 years !
>> Amazing !

> Why are you amazed?  You were not aware of the intake gasket issues for the
> past 15 years?

You mean the minor fact that it was a change in the gasket material
mandated by federal laws on asbestos that caused the entire problem for
the auto industry.

>> I am sure a lot of experts knew this practice was wrong for a long
>> time.

>> Either GM has no experts or they knew what they were doing and
>> intentionally made the cars to be with less lifetime so they would
>> need to be replaced sooner.

> Or they simply elected to use inferior parts with the expectation that
> people would just fix them, and it would never come back to haunt them.
> Save on the manufacturing costs.  Would have nothing at all to do with
> building them so that they would have to be replaced sooner.

Or they had NO choice in the matter and followed the law.

>> This was the final straw as I am concerned.

> Why?  You needed a class action decision to convince you of the problems
> that had been identified over a decade ago, and verified by tens of
> thousands of cars?  Why should this decision have any effect on your opinion
> of GM?

Tens of thousands of cars out of tens of MILLIONS of cars running Dex-Cool.

>> I thought that GM was trying to make good cars but were just sloppy in
>> management but it is obvious they do not care about their customers at
>> all and are just like the medicine men in the past trying to sell
>> anything as long as they can find anyone with money and sell them
>> false hope.

> If it took you this long to realize that, then your powers of observation
> are sorely lacking.  Are you related to Mike Hunt?

The real problem is NOT the Dex-Cool. Never has been. If it was the
coolant that was a problem why don't ALL the vehicles using it show
problems? The problem is and always has been a result of the gaskets
going bad. That is why GM started using a redesigned gasket that
eliminates the problem.

--
Steve W.
Near Cooperstown, New York

Life is not like a box of chocolates
it's more like a jar of jalapenos-
what you do today could burn your ass tomorrow!


 
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