GM garbage in general, was: <VV> GM(garbage motors) 4-6-8 Caddy engine mgt system

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Along with those and the Caddy V8-6-4 and the Vega engine you mentioned,
and the 200 tranny debacle, I'd personally add: Buick engines (bad oil
pumps, twice, less than 100,000 miles each), Cavalier Ecotech 4 cylinder
(barfed at 77,000), '84 Iron duke 4 cylinder (worse than the Vega
engine, block cracked at 19,000 and head at 21,000), front drive
automatic trans (OD went at 70,000 and again at 104,000), and the front
drive manual trans pressure plate (broke at 26,000). All unreliable
garbage. And all things that in the future I'll avoid buying like the
plague.

They SAY that their quality is now some of the best in the industry. But
it's going to have to take time to prove to the (skeptical) public.
Maybe their 1000,000 mile warranty will help.

Right now, I'm driving an '84 Impala 350 with over a quarter million
miles on it - and the heads have never been off it! So I KNOW that they
can build good cars if they want to.

-Mark

Tamias Metis wrote:
> 
> Absolutely horrible!  GM squandered any engineering prestige during that period.  Problem was "hubris" thought that they were the untoucheable giant.  What trash! Ditto the diesel produced from an Olds 350.