View Poll Results: Does your car have roof bubbles?
No bubbles
202
35.19%
Bubbles fixed under 3/36 warranty
6
1.05%
GM paid for repairs out of warranty
17
2.96%
GM paid for part of the repairs out of warranty
6
1.05%
GM refused to pay for the repairs out of warranty
45
7.84%
I have bubbles but haven't stopped by the dealership
298
51.92%
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is your 98-02 f-body roof bubbling?
01-08-2007, 06:56 PM
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Well i just got off the phone with GM and boy i need some lube on how bad there ramming me in the ***. 
They said they wont fix their defect because im the second owner and they dont know how the car was kept up.
I ask them about the 6 year corrosion warrenty and they said its for rust. And i also asked about the "good will" and they say its up to the dealership. At this point i feel there is discrimation being played here. I say the sun is melting the glue under the sheet metal causing the paint to bubble.
And get this ****. They say well the sun can do that. I say My parents have a 2000 toyota sitting in the sun without bubbles, a co-worker's 05 GT sitting in the parking lot all day without bubbles, my sister's 2 honda accords sitting in the sun without bubbles in the paint or my other sister's benz in the sun without bubbles. Its GM's glue used to keep the roof on. And you're telling me you're not going to fix your defect on the car you built with your materials.
Its time to mention names and numbers to the BBB and the local newspapers automotive dept and let everyone know that GM uses defected parts and dont hold up to their mess up and DISCRIMINATE to get out of what they messed up on.
GM=
They said they wont fix their defect because im the second owner and they dont know how the car was kept up.
I ask them about the 6 year corrosion warrenty and they said its for rust. And i also asked about the "good will" and they say its up to the dealership. At this point i feel there is discrimation being played here. I say the sun is melting the glue under the sheet metal causing the paint to bubble.
And get this ****. They say well the sun can do that. I say My parents have a 2000 toyota sitting in the sun without bubbles, a co-worker's 05 GT sitting in the parking lot all day without bubbles, my sister's 2 honda accords sitting in the sun without bubbles in the paint or my other sister's benz in the sun without bubbles. Its GM's glue used to keep the roof on. And you're telling me you're not going to fix your defect on the car you built with your materials.
Its time to mention names and numbers to the BBB and the local newspapers automotive dept and let everyone know that GM uses defected parts and dont hold up to their mess up and DISCRIMINATE to get out of what they messed up on.
GM=
01-09-2007, 08:21 AM
#343
Originally Posted by 2001somws.6
Well i got the ball rolling on the letter to high perforamce pontiac. 
01-09-2007, 08:38 AM
#344
My to top sail panel, started to fade etc and look terrible, i painted it and for whatever reason the part didnt want to hold paint real well, so i stripped it down and sanded and polished it, and i am very happy with the results
01-09-2007, 08:45 AM
#345
Originally Posted by redramair98
My to top sail panel, started to fade etc and look terrible, i painted it and for whatever reason the part didnt want to hold paint real well, so i stripped it down and sanded and polished it, and i am very happy with the results
01-10-2007, 07:50 AM
#348
Originally Posted by 2001somws.6
I think if the roof as been repainted Gm wount even touch it.
06-22-2007, 11:14 PM
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I have a 99 Z28 with 112,000 on it and it's always in the sun and rain, nothing yet. I wash it atleast once a week and wax it once a month. I shouldn't have read this, It will probably happen now.
06-23-2007, 07:54 AM
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You are lucky. You got one of the last made with the epoxy coating applied under the sail panel. Somewhere in 1999, GM decided that this coating was no longer necessary. This is why all the Camaro/Firebird produced after this critical date in 1999 have this problem. I got mine done by the dealer for free under the rust warranty.
06-23-2007, 04:50 PM
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My 10th ans SS are doing this crap and have yet to go to the dealer yet. The dealers close to me are a bounch of biatchhesss and *********. I had a hard enough time getting them to warrenty my rear on a stock car. F U Kelloge Motors!!!! 
08-14-2007, 04:55 PM
#353
Ahhhh, the roof paint bubbles. I buy/sell Camaro's and Firebird's for a living. I've had literally hundreds of them. I have never seen a 98 do it and have have seen over 100 from 99 up do this. I just got a 39K mile 00 T/A in from Illinois yesterday and now as it sits outside in this Oklahoma 105 degree heat, it has glue oozing all over the place, probably 20 places.
Darker cars do it much worse. Dark colors attract heat and get hotter, hence making the glue come up and ooze out. I have a white 00 WS6 sitting out there in this heat and nothing coming up.
I've tried to contact various GM dealerships and some literally laughed at me asking to have it fixed.
Darker cars do it much worse. Dark colors attract heat and get hotter, hence making the glue come up and ooze out. I have a white 00 WS6 sitting out there in this heat and nothing coming up.
I've tried to contact various GM dealerships and some literally laughed at me asking to have it fixed.
05-13-2008, 09:23 PM
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Originally Posted by Racr_X
Dark colors attract heat and get hotter, hence making the glue come up and ooze out.
My SS @ 51,000 miles
05-14-2008, 01:51 PM
#356
Funny, my Head Mechanic @ the dealership asked me if I had resolved this issue? I said I wasn't going thru that hassle of BBB, and the long drawn-out process of reparations.
F it, if you have to fight GM to make good on a blemish that was an obvious problem during the 2000- 2002 period, then they don't want my future business.
Plain and simple, NO MORE GM product for me. A very expensive price to pay for dissin' this customer. Wonder how many people feel the same way?
F it, if you have to fight GM to make good on a blemish that was an obvious problem during the 2000- 2002 period, then they don't want my future business.
Plain and simple, NO MORE GM product for me. A very expensive price to pay for dissin' this customer. Wonder how many people feel the same way?
05-21-2008, 06:31 AM
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I think a lot of dealers out there suck, and have no clue how to work the proper channels to get this covered under the 6 year/100k warranty. But at this point, all but the last of the '02s are past the 6 year point anyway.
Thankfully, my '98 was built early enough to not have this problem.
05-21-2008, 01:34 PM
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Not me. GM paid for the repair on my '02 car without any problems.
I think a lot of dealers out there suck, and have no clue how to work the proper channels to get this covered under the 6 year/100k warranty. But at this point, all but the last of the '02s are past the 6 year point anyway.
Thankfully, my '98 was built early enough to not have this problem.
I think a lot of dealers out there suck, and have no clue how to work the proper channels to get this covered under the 6 year/100k warranty. But at this point, all but the last of the '02s are past the 6 year point anyway.
Thankfully, my '98 was built early enough to not have this problem.
05-21-2008, 02:17 PM
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But in my case, my Chevy dealer (and GM/Chevrolet) took very good care of me on this, which is another reason why I'll return to them to buy a new Camaro or C6.
05-21-2008, 02:22 PM
#360
I cannot condemn my dealership, who has been and continues to be very supportive over the 25 year span. Very unfortunate set of circumstances that could have been avoided.
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