Inquired GM Regarding Transmission
01-07-2011, 11:31 AM
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01-07-2011, 12:10 PM
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Got a call last night to let me know they do not have any new information for me. I was told they still have people who have not responded internally and I will get another call Monday.
I found on wikipedia, reading about the VTi transmission used in Saturns from 2002 to 2004 that they were given an extended warranty of 5 year 75k miles due to high failure rates. Sounds pretty crappy to me since pretty much all of our cars have a 5 year 100k. I have serious doubts a recall will be made. The best case scenario I could imagine is extending the 5 years to 7-10 and keeping the 100k. Personally I see nothing happening given the junk 5 year 75k warranty only given for the Saturn problem.
I found on wikipedia, reading about the VTi transmission used in Saturns from 2002 to 2004 that they were given an extended warranty of 5 year 75k miles due to high failure rates. Sounds pretty crappy to me since pretty much all of our cars have a 5 year 100k. I have serious doubts a recall will be made. The best case scenario I could imagine is extending the 5 years to 7-10 and keeping the 100k. Personally I see nothing happening given the junk 5 year 75k warranty only given for the Saturn problem.
Can you pass along the phone number you used to call GM? I'm thinking that we need to bring more visibility to this problem and getting as many members as we can to do what you did, as well as call the NHTSA, will perhaps motivate GM to take some action.
And I think this is what we need to do!
01-09-2011, 06:22 PM
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I don't think I've seen one on #3 yet personally. But I've replaced a lot lately, and most would have been out of factory warranty, but fell within the extension on the warranty. I haven't had one yet that wasn't covered - yet.
01-10-2011, 06:37 PM
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So today I received a call back from GM....
I received two answers regarding the max torque input:
Answer one, All responses back say they do not know the performance specs of the "high performance" transmission.
Answer two, We cannot give that information out to the public. --
I know I was just talking with a messenger, however I was pressing hard for a small shred of information. Apparently GM doesn't know the spec of the HD transmission. Or they are hiding it.
I'm having the manager call me back to explain in full detail why this information is secret/hidden/unknown.
And as far as the recall comment from before, it was a made a point this time a key word was added to the statement - "IF" "IF the nthsa...."
This is crap, now I want to know even more what is going on. I'll find more people to contact.
I asked for all answers to be put in writing and Emails to me... If that ever comes, I'll post it up.
I received two answers regarding the max torque input:
Answer one, All responses back say they do not know the performance specs of the "high performance" transmission.
Answer two, We cannot give that information out to the public. --
I know I was just talking with a messenger, however I was pressing hard for a small shred of information. Apparently GM doesn't know the spec of the HD transmission. Or they are hiding it.
I'm having the manager call me back to explain in full detail why this information is secret/hidden/unknown.
And as far as the recall comment from before, it was a made a point this time a key word was added to the statement - "IF" "IF the nthsa...."
This is crap, now I want to know even more what is going on. I'll find more people to contact.
I asked for all answers to be put in writing and Emails to me... If that ever comes, I'll post it up.
