GM fighting against a recall
02-25-2014, 08:30 PM
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GM fighting against a recall http://wallstcheatsheet.com/business...e.html/?ref=YF
It's not safety related, but your gauges could go haywire for a sec, while they reset, as you drive... you can read it..
It's not safety related, but your gauges could go haywire for a sec, while they reset, as you drive... you can read it..
02-25-2014, 09:25 PM
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I'm not convinced the nearly 300,000 owners of these brand new pickups will agree. If these were several yes old, I wouldn't care, but brand new... That just plain sucks. Oh well, I'm not working that out.
02-25-2014, 09:54 PM
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If that happened to me I'd be like "WTH" and probably try my to replicate it and fail to, since it sounds like it is a very specific set of events necessary to trigger it. Weird glitch for sure.
It would bug me, but how much? Don't know. Enough to complain to GM? Probably. Enough to demand a recall over it? Probably not. Only thing I would ask would be a software update to correct the glitch and just move on with my life. A head scratcher but not something to get bent out of shape over.
It would bug me, but how much? Don't know. Enough to complain to GM? Probably. Enough to demand a recall over it? Probably not. Only thing I would ask would be a software update to correct the glitch and just move on with my life. A head scratcher but not something to get bent out of shape over.
02-26-2014, 06:08 AM
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Your asking them to support a 3rd party device that didn't come on the vehicle. I read something about a long file name causing the reset. I'm thinking more like a high current draw from the device's USB port pulling from the cluster's 5 volt logic circuit. But what do I know?
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this is what happens when you add an engine and wheels to a computer; this is no different then what a I encounter when I mess with, and try to "enhance," my computer, phone, etc. lol
The more complicated and robust you make something, the more issues you can have with it.
The more complicated and robust you make something, the more issues you can have with it.
02-26-2014, 08:30 AM
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Your asking them to support a 3rd party device that didn't come on the vehicle. I read something about a long file name causing the reset. I'm thinking more like a high current draw from the device's USB port pulling from the cluster's 5 volt logic circuit. But what do I know?
I wouldn't expect a recall, but NHTSA is apparently concerned that it's going to affect basically all those trucks at some point. I can't imagine it would, unless it turns out the glitch issue is really within the ECM rather than a problem for certain models of high end calibration... read: loaded with electronics.