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Yeah I'm tired of working on newer cars. They are designed to fail- in many cases maliciously design by the engineers. Just had a run in with this, GM post-2006 in particular. They specifically design the LS engines (5.3, 6.0, 6.2) to fail catastrophically if anything doesn't go exactly as expected. So you get contaminants in your oil, or head gasket goes, or whatever. It's going to gum up the crankshaft, spin a bearing and then the fun starts. The lifters for the cylinder displacement system fail commonly (as in all of them, within 150k miles) and chew up the camshaft, gumming up the oil ports. To replace the $5 bearing you have to dismantle the entire serpentine loop, remove the front differential and steering components, take the timing cover off with associated sensors and bullshit, remove the power steering pump from the block because they put two critical bolts behind the non-removable pulley (and they're too long to take them out with PS pump in place). Now drop the oil pan and find out the bolts that hold the crankshaft in come in from the sides and are impossible to get out with the engine in the car. Now to get the engine out you have to dismantle the entire cooling system, vac the AC lines, and remove the entire front clip. This job was quoted at $12,000 by a local shop and most places said buy another engine- replacement engines are $8000+. For a car worth maybe $20k now. Complete and utter bullshit.
I just bought a 1998 Tahoe for $2000 to replace it. I'm not falling for that shit ever again, the car industry can go fuck themselves. Told my friend that if the car doesn't have ashtrays (I don't smoke) and HVAC controls that slide, I don't fuckin want it.
Same shit here in Europe, I've seen too many frens and colleagues who bought Ford and other GM cars, all of them had engine failures reliably just after the end of warranty. Sudden oil leaks until it runs dry, blown gaskets, and one even blew a tranny.
Old Volvos is the only thing I can trust here in the cold winters, they ain't much, but they just works. 2.4l cast iron 5 cylinder engines, no turbo, drinks gasoline like Gorbachev but practically indestructible.
I just bought a 1998 Tahoe for $2000 to replace it. I'm not falling for that shit ever again, the car industry can go fuck themselves. Told my friend that if the car doesn't have ashtrays (I don't smoke) and HVAC controls that slide, I don't fuckin want it.
Old Volvos is the only thing I can trust here in the cold winters, they ain't much, but they just works. 2.4l cast iron 5 cylinder engines, no turbo, drinks gasoline like Gorbachev but practically indestructible.