Holy Shite. The car companies just can't seem to get it right these days.
Can you imagine going 65 per down the freeway and then BAM! the motor just seizes up bringing you to a screeching halt in the middle of freeway traffic???
And at 60 to 80K per vehicle they just sit at the dealer waiting on parts?
No thank you. I will stick with my broken down 300,000 mile vehicles and just keep repairing them with junkyard parts.
And apparently the fix is going to be a higher viscosity oil???
All the EPA requirements kept automakers "updating" their engines before the bugs are worked out. Happened to the small Ecotec 2.4l Direct Injection leading to recalls, and even Toyota got caught short by pushing engine grenades out due to lack of longevity testing.
ReplyDeleteAll the changes end up this way, as incremental improvements are thrown out in the lost hope of continuing improvements by re-design.
The old Small Block Chevy block lasted in the exact same form for 30 years and with a metric tweak for another 15 years. Looks like this tweak on the 25 year old LS family didn't work. Guess boosted V-6s and turbo-4s for everybody, right?
I think the boosted ones are having broken flex plate problems now.
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