My wifes 1997 LeSaber is a pile of junk! I have to replace just about everything under the hood or bolted tot he engine. Wire harness for ignition module and crank sensor,water pump,plastic water pump tubes,upper intake manifold,starter,all sensors, ignition control module,caliper,master cyclinder,brake lines,transmission and on and on.........The plastic parts in side the car are rotting and cracking and falling off the car. The door panels have shrunk so much that they no longer fit properly, the trunks locking cylinder no longer works with the key you have to use the electronic accuator, the engine leaks oil from multiple seals.
My grandmother bought it used with 40,000 miles on it and ran nothing but M1 in it and followed the oil life monitor. All maintence was always performed by the book by the dealership.When I got it with 104,000 miles on it it was already showing sings of it's poor design. I managed to nurse the transmission another 40,000 miles before I had to get a used low milage one from a salvage yard and replace it.
I am convinced that GM can not build anything that will last very long with like new performance and functioning. I have had Toyota's that wherer 17 year old and still had the same fit and finish as they did when they where new and still where squeak and rattle free. It is completly unacceptable that I had to replace a transmission at 140,000 miles. Their was a TSB for the problem but it only applied to the origanal owner. GM had a hard time boreing a round hole for the TCC apply piston and knew about it. If the owner complained under warranty about the surgeing they replaced the transmission. That should have been a recall not a TSB. How hard is it in 1997 to bore a round concentric hole in aluminum and cast iron? The upper intak manifold fiasco should have ben a recall as well not a TSB since coolant leaking into your engine is a durability issue and intake manifolds are not normal wear items!
In fact at the time when I bought my Toyota Camry I was working for GM and could have gotten a GM Supplier Discount. The fact that I bought a Toyota should tell you something.
When I had to replace the transmission all the bolts,nuts hardware and busching under that car had to be replaced due to rust. Some of them had rusted completely away! Gm has always been in the rust belt so their no excuse for that other then them useing cheap componets!
The only way you would get me in a GM vechile with my own money doing the purchaseing would be if the cost of the vechile was 1/3 the cost of the same type of vechile offered by Toyota!