Drew Dowdell
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There is a huge difference between "Needing to be replaced" and "Replaced for customer satisfaction purposes". This is why I'm bringing up the GM timing chains. You don't work on Electric drivetrains in the same way you work on an engine. Electric drive trains need to go into a clean-room before you start opening them up. They aren't worked on by engine mechanics at $50 an hour, they are worked on by electrical engineers who specialize in this stuff at $200+ an hour. What's happening is that some component in the early models' drive train is failing.... but like the timing chains going bad, this is not a complete drivetrain failure. Instead of pulling the motor, stripping it down in a clean room and spending upwards of $200 an hour to fix it, they are swapping out the drive train for a newer design. It also gets the car back to the customer in a fraction of the time. If GM did this, it would be like them swapping in a brand new LFX in place of an LLT. They are doing these swaps for customer satisfaction purposes because the swap can happen in half a day instead of a repair that takes multiple days..... NOT because the drivetrain had catastrophic failure. For most of them, the car was still completely drive able with nothing more than a slight noise coming from the back. So the "Require" part of the clickbait headline is wrong in most of these instances. -
Indeed. There are only two Buicks without AWD... Cacada and Verano.... and Verano may get it next model.
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... that's called the Bolt.
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Popular Mechanics linked to an article that used dodgey data with HUGE statistical flaws. The author of the original article on Green Car Reports cannot even calculate 5% v 0.5% correctly.... he is replying in the comments and gets the math wrong MULTIPLE times. Here is the extended warranty for the timing chains... so STICK IT in your files. There is also a release on the NHTSA website as well that details the timing chain extended warranty. {PDF Warning} And while the extended warranty only covers the SUVs, owners of Malibus, Camaros, G8s and other older 3.6 powered cars are still reporting the same thing. The most recent LFX doesn't appear to be affected.
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TESLA DOES NOT HAVE A 60% MOTOR FAILURE RATE! YOU HAVE A 100% FAILURE RATE IN READING COMPREHENSION.
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Yeah, if you don't have a place to charge the Volt nightly, there is no point... just get a regular hybrid.
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The timing chain issue covers the 2.8, 2.8T, 3.0, and 3.6 spanning back to 2004 with millions of units sold, even just 5,000,000 vehicles (and that is low) with a 2% failure rate is over 100,000 vehicles totaling 200,000 timing chains or more. It's a widespread enough issue that GM has extended the warranty on all of this family of V6es to 120,000 miles, but repairs are happening as low as 9,000 miles. My friend at the Buick dealer gets Lambdas back in the shop with under 36k miles on them needing timing chain replacements.
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I changed the topic title to an actual topic so that new visitors might actually know what the topic is about. I have always reserved the right to make those types of changes for ease of navigation of the site. You're right in that the damage from this agenda driven F U.D. propaganda is done, but I'm glad I'm able to use my little corner of the web to try and set the record straight. I don't like agendas, especially when they use dodgey facts and statistics like this one does. I don't care if they're for or against a company that I'm for or against.
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Except the Malibu cannot drive on electric only power for "X" number of miles like the Volt. Two different types of cars IMO. Not exactly the same, but that's my point. Someone will come in and think 'the volt is too small' and then you just qualify them, do you really need the plug in? Would a cheaper car with more room make sense to you? You can snag an electric intender who is not yet ready to pay the full price for a plug in, so chevy can downsell and get those people. They may not come in wanting a hybrid, but if you show them the plug in and back them down to the hybrid then that MSRP on the Bu Hybrid looks like a bargain, and they haven't compared it to the Fusion or Camry. Saying it has 'a good part of the same hybrid system as the volt' adds value because its not the same 'low grade hybrid' like the fusion or camry. Not everyone who comes in to look at the volt is going to decide they need the plug in. When you get the people to make the decision, then you can downsell the Malibu and they will think you are giving them more value. I would imagine that a lot who come in on a Volt also don't know about the additional cost of the faster chargers and then balk.
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Every time you make your mortgage payment, it's like part of that payment is going into a long term savings bond. Every time you make a rental payment, it's like flushing money down the toilet. Just make sure you can handle the payments.
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Tesla Increases Lobbying Efforts To Break Into Michigan
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Tesla
Then you need to read all of this thread to understand why that "report" is F.U.D. http://www.cheersandgears.com/topic/86111-oh-hi/- 196 replies
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Oops, I"m wrong, the 2009 Buick Lacrosse had the 3800, but production of the engine had finished by August 2008... they just built enough of them to keep up with the final Lacrosse sales that needed them.
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Hyundai News:Hyundai's Genesis Brand Unveils the G90 Flagship
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Genesis
Actually the CT6 and XT5 names are a calamity in my book, so you'll get no argument from me there. -
Nope, the Impala was 3400 and 3900 by then. The last year of the 3800 was the 2008 Lucerne... that was the last North American vehicle to carry it. Impala dropped the 3800 after 2005.
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Hyundai News:Hyundai's Genesis Brand Unveils the G90 Flagship
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Genesis
Oh I'm not saying that it isn't a luxury design, it very much is. I'm saying that it looks too much like cars that are on the road today that are badged Hyundai. There needed to be a bigger departure from the existing look, particularly in the grille. Had they debuted the Genesis brand when the current Genesis was released, I'd have no issue because it looked a lot different from the prior model. It would have been a nice clean break. The way they did it, now there is this mushy area where some cars are Hyundai brand and some cars are Genesis brand yet they have the same look... and next year the cars that were Hyundai brand will be Genesis brand with a new model name but will look identical. It's pretty confusing to customers. -
Hyundai News:Hyundai's Genesis Brand Unveils the G90 Flagship
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Genesis
Well... it kinda is. They have the "Hyundai Genesis" look on the nose, so until Genesis gets a new look, it is still going to carry a Hyundai prefix in people's minds. -
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I don't think a 3800 powered 2014 Regal is the only tall tale he's told.
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Fairly pricey pricing, but if the equipment and MPGs hold up, it might be worth it.
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Really? The average age of vehicles on American roads in the last several years has hovered around the eleven year mark. So you are saying that these things will never achieve average age? Because who is going to pay to keep these things going after 8 years, with this kind of failure rate? What a colossal waste of money. You failed at reading. You are confusing proactive warranty replacement with a failure rate. These were NOT catastrophic motor failures being reported. And in the process the owners receive a new motor of updated design with zero miles on it. Tesla is not like the legacy car companies... they make rolling changes to their designs and deploy them at any point in the model year. If you have a 2012 Model S with VIN #2, and you get this power train replacement, you end up with a motor that is updated to the same design as the latest 2015/16 motor.
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There is ZERO chance that a 90 degree V6 is going to fit in the 2014 Regal. I don't care how much money you have, you're not getting a 90 degree V6 into it. The 60 degree 2.8 Turbo barely fits in the Opel Insignia. You are also correct about the year the 3800 stopped production. You can shut down the "China option" talk really quick with this link - http://www.buick.com.cn/newregal/specifications.aspx The Regal in China only comes with the 2.0T or the 1.6T. Cars with more then 2 liters of displacement have huge taxes levied on them, so much so that even the XTS has a 2.0T as it's main engine there. You also cannot bring cars into the US for sale that are not EPA certified, and since GM would not have bothered to EPA certify a 3800 powered 2014 Regal, even if such a thing existed in China, the EPA and DHS would likely want to have a conversation with him. In shorter terms: He's a troll.... shut him down.
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Did any of you, especially the OP, even READ the article from Green Car Reports? The statistics come from 327 cars (1% of total) from the 2012 and 2013 model years and only 30 cars from the 2014 and 2015 model years. That's right... your Colorado starts to make a funny noise under the hood, so Chevrolet has a standard policy of REPLACING THE ENTIRE V6 ENGINE, TRANSMISSION, AND FOUR WHEEL DRIVE components. </fanstasyworld> GM has needed to replace more timing chains on the 3.6 V6 than Tesla has built cars. Stop spreading F.U.D.
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Guy takes down hate preacher in the most Scottish way possible.
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Opel, Ford of Europe, Renault, Peugeot, Citroen too.
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Hyundai News:Hyundai's Genesis Brand Unveils the G90 Flagship
Drew Dowdell replied to William Maley's topic in Genesis
Could you be underwhelmed due to them just coping the last generation S sedan from MB? It doesn't even look like that to me.... it looks like the last Equus, with a Genesis front clip and an XTS C-Pillar.
