General Motors

At 56,000 miles, my 2001 Grand Am is costing me 3,600 in repairs due to faulty Intake Manifold Gaskets coupled Dex-Cool. GM knew about this years ago but decided it wasn’t “Financially Advisable” to issue a recall. GM and their co-conspirators are criminals. Criminals who are no better than those low life con men serving time for insurance, credit card and Identity fraud.

GM has officially blamed the drivers of these vehicles citing low levels of coolant. They say the owners didn’t take care of their car and that’s why it happened.

The coolant suddenly and profusely starts pouring from the manifold. This could happen 10 minutes after you take it in for regular service. In my car, it didn’t leak onto the ground (it didn’t on most of the affected GM car owners which is why it was to figure out what was wrong). It “oozed” all over the motor and just kind of sat there corroding certain areas. Dex-Cool is advertised as Anti-Corrosive. I have seen with my own 2 eyes that it is most certainly corrosive.

My mechanic says Dex-Cool has sent a lot of business his way.

The biggest problem with my car (and most expensive to date) is a block in the heating core that ate right through and is leaking into my floorboard.

I take care of my cars. I take excellent care of my cars. I have the 2001 Grand Am and a 2001 Firebird. These cars have the same engine. They were purchased the same time and have always been serviced at the same time by the same person. I never treated one better than the other. They were serviced regularly. All scheduled maintenance was performed on time and by the same person on both cars. There is NO difference in how they were treated. The Grand Am just happened to get the faulty Gaskets and the Firebird was lucky.

This is a faulty parts issue couples with the use of Dex-cool. GM knows it.

It’s criminal they way we have been treated by General Motors.

I have purchased my last American made car. All my friends and co-workers are with me. They see the hell I’ve had to endure because I bought a GM.

How sad is it that I have to turn to another country just get a reliable car.