BREAKING: GM is officially recalling the L87

[Vladimir2306]

CFO, interesting. I thought you were the president.. of Russia lol. Jokes aside, appreciate the responses. Wish I had the time / resources to take your advice. Tick tick tick .. on my 23 Yukon Denali

So it doesn't cost much to take my advice. It is not expensive to open the pan during the next oil change and see the condition of the liners and crankshaft

 

[shb500777]

This is absolutely MASSIVE for GM, right? Like, lose-lose-lose-lose scenario?

They are saying 18.9 hours of labor to change motors... So just throwing around some numbers...

19 hours of labor at $85 per hour = $1615 per project
750,000 recalled engines, say 25% are bad (likely more) = 187,500 engines

We are talking $302,812,500 in LABOR alone... NOT COUNTING engines...

Then we still have to consider loss of future customers, further issues down the roam, oh... And lawsuits.

 

[BacDoc]

Customer can take the vehicle to any authorized GM dealer.The dealer gets paid for the work they do at the agreed upon rate. Let’s show the person with issue some concern and courtesy.

This is essential for any customer service oriented business! Quality control and customer service will help more with brand loyalty than any advertising campaign or social media optimization, SMO. Not the Russian version of SMO LOL

 

[vcode]

So it doesn't cost much to take my advice. It is not expensive to open the pan during the next oil change and see the condition of the liners and crankshaft

I stick by my statement. 99.9% will not do that. Maybe even 99.99%......

 

[Lonny]

Won’t the resale market for these trucks be divided into two categories:

1) engines replaced (higher value)
2) oil replaced (tainted value)

 

[BADRIDES]

I’d never buy anything from you!

Some business you just dont need

 

[BADRIDES]

This is absolutely MASSIVE for GM, right? Like, lose-lose-lose-lose scenario?

They are saying 18.9 hours of labor to change motors... So just throwing around some numbers...

19 hours of labor at $85 per hour = $1615 per project
750,000 recalled engines, say 25% are bad (likely more) = 187,500 engines

We are talking $302,812,500 in LABOR alone... NOT COUNTING engines...

Then we still have to consider loss of future customers, further issues down the roam, oh... And lawsuits.

Where are you getting $85 an hour? Try $140 and up, the dealership 25 miles from me charges $169 an hour that's why you wont see 750,000 new engines installed. It would put the company in a major downward spiral.

 

[viven44]

Won’t the resale market for these trucks be divided into two categories:

1) engines replaced (higher value)
2) oil replaced (tainted value)

In theory you are correct but in practice far from the truth. 99% of the people who aren't 6.2L owners currently haven't the faintest clue about any of this going on and with all the eye candy on these high trim models that are equipped with 6.2L its going to be the last thing in their mind.....

 

[Scarey]

Won’t the resale market for these trucks be divided into two categories:

1) engines replaced (higher value)
2) oil replaced (tainted value)

After the recall has mostly worked it’s way through, what’s printed on the oil fill cap is what’s going to drive the value. If you have a 0-20 cap, you were outside of the recall or received a new motor. If you have a 0-40 cap you could still have a bad motor, you only past the knock sensor test….for now. 0-40 will be the scarlet letter.

 

[BADRIDES]

A lot of my 6.2 owners are running Lucas in their trucks, I have one customer that prolonged his engine 60,000 miles before he had problems.