Deciding what to do with my 2023 Denali

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JayceeP

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I asked the salesman to make me a trade in offer. No reply
Go figure! I would reach out direct to the sales manger for the dealership instead. Say while you’re disappointed you’d like to remain a GM owner. If you’re serious, I would have some numbers in mind and throw in an offer on your trade and ask price for a 2025. Don’t be wishy washy. Make it easy for them to deal with you. I would find the next closest 2 or 3 dealers to you and do the same thing. You never know.
 

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The trade in value should be fine, especially with the warranty… lot of unnecessary fear I thusvfirum, remember the forum represents less then .001 percent of the vehicles and that many have already failed. That said the 25 is superior so I would expect a value hit, as is typical if any refresh, regardless if brand. There will be a lot of consumers and dealers with no knowledge of the issue and there is no requirement that you need to say a word. “Let the buyer beware”
 

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My trust of this process is minimal at best. My understanding is that the engines are fine until they are not. I personally know 3 folks that have had their engines fail and there was no prior symptoms before failure
You know 3 people that had this failure? You either work at a dealer or every person you know, and you know a lot of people, drives one of these. The odds of this are low. Crazy if true. I’d like to think I know a disproportionately high number of folks with one of these, myself included, but I have yet to personally hear of a failure.
 
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You know 3 people that had this failure? You either work at a dealer or every person you know, and you know a lot of people, drives one of these. The odds of this are low. Crazy if true. I’d like to think I know a disproportionately high number of folks with one of these, myself included, but I have yet to personally hear of a failure.
I live in Oregon and work at a good sized lumber contractor sales company.. Our parking lot is a varitable GMC lot.
 

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In my experience, peace of mind is a wonderful thing. Assuming that you can withstand the economics, you should do whatever gives you the greatest peace of mind. You'll never regret that choice
 

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So my 2023 Denali is on the dreaded "engine recall list".. Sigh. The dealer told me that I would need to bring it in for an "inspection". Apparently if it passes the inspection I would get an oil change to the different viscosity oil and a new oil cap and sent on my way.. again sigh.. I paid $93K for this rig and have only put 9,500 miles on it in 18 months because I still drive my '03 suburban most days trying to finish it off (but it wont die). Obviously trying to sell my 2023 will be a huge bath as given the recall no one would want the rig. Luckily I am not in a financial position that this is a massive problem for me, but I also don't want to take a huge bath on it. I am considering trading it in or selling it. the news on this seems to show that there are 28,000 incidents out of 877,000 rigs so that is only 3%. Not bad odds I guess... Just looking for any and all advice on my situation. Thanks
I have a 2024 1500 Sierra Denali 4x4 with 9,400 miles and have had only 10 months... I am in the same situation. To simply increase the oil viscosity is a cheap joke and the owners expense. This recall issue also greatly depreciates the vehicles value although at the time of purchase this issue was not in the equation. Any owner of a vehicle falling within this unfortunate recall will also have the constant fear of a highly potential engine failure some point after 5 year/60,000 miles knowing the heightened possibility of the costly premature engine failure.
 

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