Originally Posted By: gotib007
Gosh, I really hate to see anyone bash a car company. I guess everyone has their preferences and their experiences. When I was young, I thought VW and Mercedes could do no wrong. Then I started working on them, and would watch my buddies fix GM vehicles with little effort and comparatively smaller cost. I spent some time thinking Mazda and the Japanese were the cat's meow, but eventually Toyota's issues with sludged motors convinced me they're not supermen.
I've got three GM vehicles, all of them have over 150K miles, two of them "new" to me. The one I've had since new has its issues, but it's been great and hasn't stranded me yet. Well, there was that one time the battery died, but they all do eventually, right?
I guess everybody's experience is different, but you can chalk me up as a GM fan. It seems to me that if it's not a maintenance issue, they eventually get around to doing the right thing. But, like I said, your mileage may vary.
+1. And no offense to the OP but I don't undestand the anti-GM when they provided very good pay and a living to his own family. You'd think the non-union, temporary/short term, low pay/no benefits workers at say Honda have it great? They probably can't afford a family to have a kid who dislikes their employer, but at least they'd have an excuse lol. There's nothing wrong with being loyal to a company that provided good liftime employment and a retirement. Not to mention a pretty good employee discount on new vehicles. It would be kind of messed up for your dad to buy from a competitor, especially a non-union foreign one IMO. I have a dispicable relative (IMO) with a retirement from GM and disabilty from the military since 1940's who buys new cars every 2 years and now recently only buys Japanese makes because his idiot neighbor told him "Toyotas are the best". He bought an Accord awhile back and was complaning to the dealer about the hard ride lol. JMO.
