Didn't mean to insinuate you were disagreeing. I wondered the same until I saw GM's statement about 2025s being ok, despite failure reports.
I suspect its still too early to tell what the failure rate on the '25 L87s is. Unless and until NHTSA receives enough complaints about the 2025 L87, we wont hear a peep about failures except through dealers, friends and forums. There's no conclusive way to prove or disprove any of those reports for people here. As for not wanting to jump into a 2025 or 2026, I'm just making a calculated guess based on the information I've received from trusted folks in the trenches that could have sold me and several friends new trucks, but told us to avoid the 2025 L87 for now.
The fact is, there's an acceptable failure rate on engines across the industry, and I've had some insiders argue its already around 2%. I doubt any manufacturer is going to publish their acceptable engine failure rates to verify that though. Clearly without ALL the data, which we'll never get from GM, we'll never know if the failure rate on the '21-'24s is really only 3-4%. I suspect its higher, because you can already get to that figure using the data they released in the NHTSA documents nearly 6 months ago, and engines are still failing. Even if it settles around 5-8%, then you still have a 95-92% chance you WON'T have a failure. To some in rural towns, or who don't drive as much, that's acceptable... motor quits, slide over to the shoulder or ditch and make a call. To others who are running 75+ on 6-7 lane tollways and interstates with no shoulders, regularly towing through desolate areas, or have disabled passengers, they may think differently. To each their own.
