Recent content by Bladecutter

The worst part is that chances are, if you had agreed to pay the $1100 to the dealer for the work, they would have pocketed your money, and then submitted it to the manufacturer as a warranty claim, getting paid twice over for the same repair.

Oh please. Do you complain about having a fuel level gauge on your dashboard? No, you don't, do you? It's the same level of complexity, honestly. You need a fluid level sensor, wiring, and a visual readout on the dash, or in the infotainment screen, plus the programming that makes the fluid...

No. Tonale.

I am absolutely SHOCKED and FLABBERGASTED that an area with less people living there have less customers than a place with more people that live there. As for the quality of employees, they don't have to deal with as many customers in a day showing up without the documents that they need in...

No, I believe it's a different system with different coding. Different ownership types, by several leaps and bounds between Alfa products, and Jeep / Dodge products.

The Alfa Stelvio and Giulia forums are full of people who followed the 9k mile or 1 year interval from the dashboard, and there are many many reports of P06DD errors on the forum over the past couple of years. The resolution is either a new oil pump pressure solenoid, or a whole new oil pump...

Sounds to me like the original owner probably had his car repoed, and he was just being a jerk to whomever bought his repossessed car just out of (misguided) principal.

On Oct 1st, 1998, I was t-boned by a car driver on my motorcycle at age 24. The femur ball on my left hip was 100% separated from the femur neck. I was patched back up in the emergency room using 3 very long bolts, and shipped out the door 4 days later. That lasted 9 years, until the pain of...

The car doesn't have TPMS sensors in the wheels, so it just plain doesn't have the ability to do this. Saves people from having to replace wheel sensors every 7 years, so you have to take your tradeoff on this one.

So, when are you going to show up and clean the engine bays in my garage for me? Seems like some sort of weird AI post.

If the ECU no longer has control over the fuel injector, how do you expect the ECU to shut it down? As long as there is fuel pressure in the rail, that stuck open injector is going to keep spraying fuel.

Machines typically don't have emotions, or bad days. A human can be a good person, or a bad person, at different times during the same day, and you can't tell the difference until you see their actions play out. The programmer has a specific job to do: Make this gizmo do this specific thing...

Quick question: What was the time frame of them printing, packing, and sending your letter? Do they choose an office location that is closer to the end destination, or is it being mailed from a central location in the US? I'm sure this is helpful for people who are outside of the US to mail...

Why would it not be okay? It meets all the specs for an SP 5W-30 engine oil. If someone thinks that the Dexos spec is more important than the API SP oil spec, then I can understand their hesitation. I would have to ask a forum that specializes in GM vehicles to find out if the dealer service...

Elaborate on what? What is your question?