Poorboy, with all due respect, are you serious?poorboy said:If you are knowledgeable with what is being repaired on your Malibu, you shouldn't even come close to that in extra maintenance vs. the Accord. As well, 6 or 7 G's would have put you into a completely different GM car than a Malibu.
My car is a Buick Park Avenue. It rolled off the lot new for a bottom line price of $45,000. freaking dollars. This is the top end buick and it is a piece of shit.
The K type motor is the same whether it is in a 45k park avenue, a 35 k lesabre or Grand Prix, or a 25k Impala, or whatever else they put it in.
Money spent has NOTHING to do with quality here.
tbill was smart to buy a malibu for less because he essentially has the same shit quality that my 45k Park Avenue has.
Answer - NO....Sixer said:James,
Are they going to replace your plastic intake manifold with an aluminium one? I hope they don’t just replace it with another plastic one. I believe I got a similar problem in my car as well. On my last oil change, my mechanic told me I have a small leak from the intake manifold. My GM car is relatively new. I hope it is under the car warranty.
They are sticking with plastic. If you have the problem, and you catch it, they merely put a new identical part back on your car.
At the current time, GM is in full denial mode. They are offering me 800 bucks for my $5,000 problem.
You have been given a heads up by your mechanic. Speaking from experience, I strongly urge you to deal with this problem NOW before it gets worse and you loose your engine like i did. In my case, there was no warning. I had the car serviced less than 1000 km and 2 weeks before it failed, including an emissions test. There was no waring, just my engine seizing up and a very large bill.
Since i had the new engine installed in mid october, my driver's side heated seat has failed completely
Another dash light has burned out
My air conditioning compressor is making periodic noises
And now my new used engine is hesitating when i give it the gas. Needless to say, it will be at the dealer on monday since it has a 90 day warrenty.
What a fucking piece of Buick shit.
I can not begin to tell you what a fucking useless, overpriced, poorly engineered, poorly built piece of shit this car is.
No....crocket said:
Is it not the intake manifold "gasket" that is the problem with your vehicles, not the manifold itself? Thats what I saw on tv last week (Auto Talk). I've never seen any manifolds which were actually made of plastic. Good luck with your vehicles guys.
It's the intake manifold itself.
What is happening is that the plastic warps, or in my case cracks into the water jacket.
When the plastic warps, and or creeps (creep is like stretching over time, even concrete creeps) the seal between the flange of the manifold and the gasket itself is broken. This problem can be corrected by replacing the gasket with a new one which essentially is not squeezed down. The new gasket at least temporarily takes up the gap.
The problem is the plastic manifold itself. It's a black plastic piece that sits right on top of your engine. You can't see it unless you remove the fuel injector sight shield, i.e. usless plastic engine cover.
I know that this gets said about every car manufacturer, but I will never ever buy GM again. I think tonight i have resolved to get rid of this piece of shit and buy a nice reliable german or japanese car. In either case, without a plastic intake manifold.
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