RANT!! @%$*!? GM pieces of shit!

[Zboy]

Is it just me or is everything on my 92 Z-34 an afterthought? It seems like GM was racing to build the car. Every piece seems to be thrown on at the last second! Take the alternator for example, it seems like the engineers got too boozed up and forgot to include it in the design so production guys threw it in the bottom of the car out of spite. And that goddamn shield that goes around the axle to prevent water from hitting the Alt.? Pure fucking genius you bedwetters. And why is it that every car with an LQ1 has the engine bay soaked in the kind of grease that comes off Rush Limbaugh when hes in the hot Texas sun? The Lq1 must have gaskets/ seals made from dish rags. No wait, dishrags would absorb some of the fucking oil BEFORE IT LEAKED OUT OF THE GODDAMNED ENGINE! I could bolt the parts together without gaskets and they wouldn't leak this much. What in the hell was GM doing when they built this car, thinking "At Ford quality is job #1, at GM quality is not allowed in the building?" Did the saudis buy controlling interest in GM? Thats the only reason I can think of that explains why these cars piss more oil than the Bush family. The undercarriage of my Z looks like someone dipped it in gear lube then tried to cover it with road tar. This thing is almost as slimy as Dick Cheney.
I really do think that Gm is having Ford design all Gm's cars and run the whole Godforsaken company. How else can you explain the Pontiac Aztec, the HHR, SSR and killing the Firebird? Kill the goddamned Camaro, that car was hideous, but not the 'Bird you toejam eating ass puppets!!

What the hell is GM's problem with the nut/bolt arrangement? It seems like Gm is absolutely terrified to put a blind nut anywhere on their cars. At least give me a threaded fucking hole you polesmokers! Instead they give us something so much better, The Threaded Insert! These abominations must have been developed by a drunken retard with Dyslexia. The fucking things strip while removing the fine threaded screw the line guy so daintily installed while trying not to chew threw the lower half of his jaw from all the crack he smoked with the Design guys. Fucking Pieholes!! I"ve built better cars out of Legos and Lincoln Logs while snorting Jack Daniels. JEESSSus. And can someone explain why the hell GM's paint peels faster than Tara Reids clothes after a Jag Bomb? Vegas hookers don't srip that fast after you give them a bag of Blow. At least in the future when someone is desperate enough to want to restore one of these rolling tributes to failure, the body won't be very hard to strip clean. Provided the bodies didn't rust out from the bang up sheetmetal GM sourced from sunken World War II Naval vessels. Cheap fucks.

Thats all for now guys, I'm gonna go bang my head on the pavement.
Jesse

[bszopi]

Must be someone's time of the month...

[RednBlack]

And don't forget that cheap-assed glass they use. Every time a rock hits it, it cracks.

[alphaseinor]

Vegas hookers don't srip that fast after you give them a bag of Blow.

Maybe for you they don't... but for us Rush Limbaugh Listenin', Texas Livin, Bush Votin', Oil Company Ownin', Haliberton Contractin', Damn Yankee Sayin', Sub 80 IQn' republicans... we don't even need the blow to get them hookers to strip.

Stupid people sure are rich!

[IsaacHayes]

My glass has tons of nicks in it but no cracks. Paint is holding up great, (get comments on it, people ask if it was repainted). My friends 96 corsica isn't though. It's a leper. I don't leak much oil, just a little wet spot on one side despite 180k. I do hate how they did a pisspour job selecting the seam sealant, I had to re-do it all because there was 3" of water after a rain on my floor board. Took me a couple months to find all the spots. Even had to re-do where the air duct blows into the car.

What do you expect from ~200k cars that are ~14years old? At least they still run good! (mine does!)

I haven't heard that many insults in one time ever!

[Zboy]

What do you expect from ~200k cars that are ~14years old? At least they still run good! (mine does!



My 95 Dodge Ram has 40,000 more miles than my Z and has no oil major oil leaks. The engine has never been touched, I know this because I know both the original owner and the second owner ( who I bought it from). I just don't get it.

[IsaacHayes]

Cars vary from each other too. Some can have bad paint/leaky/bad performance, and others from the same year can be great. Just like identical motors, some will run better than one built the same day... Maybe you got one that was built on a friday/monday!

[Doubt_Incarnate]

2 words. "Mass production". As cheap as possible as fast as possible.

Not just a special GM thing, ford could have put a cast aluminum pan my tranny and greatly cut down its chances of leaking, but that would require a set of molds and time to melt and let the metal harden, so they just stamped out a bunch of steel things. and I just check the level once in a while.

time and money, thats all its about. Did you know my explorer has different part numbers for left and right spark plugs? they only put platinum on the tip or the arm depending on what side, lasts as long as a full platimun plug since its waste spark but they save like $.05 a plug on like 8 million plugs. comes out to $400,000 they can keep in thier pocket. But of course, replacements are full plat, and a different number altogether, and that $.05 is in there and marked up to about eyeball level..

[gpse3400]

I don't know. the chassis seems fine to me unless you live in Canada or Maine. For a FWD car they handle very well, esspecially the Pontiacs. Most cars today don't hold the road as well. Even the newer W cars lack a ton of grip. The TDC is a tempermental pain in the ass. And I don't like how the whole engine compartment gets boiling hot. Almost overheated yesterday in Boston traffic. I like the fact it runs on regular gas, otherwise its a monstrosity. The master cylinder could be bigger. GM insisted on using that crappy compact master cylinder. If they used the master from say a '88 Monte Carlo, we'd have some strong brakes. On a side note I love Ford brakes, nice and grabby.All engines leak oil when they get older... My TDC eats a quart every 1200 miles.... I bet my valve guides are falling too......It still runs, But for how long.... I mean it is a Chevy. At least the bottom half is. It was good in the early 90's but I aint gonna win any races with this, Standard or Auto.... Oh I got my title today. Unladen the Lobster weighs 19 lbs less than the Whale. 3212 versus 3231. Neglible weight difference between the autos and the standards.

[Doubt_Incarnate]

I have noticed chevys in general are more powerfull Cube for cube than ford, but the trade off is obvious, 25% more power for 25% less life.

[prophiseer]

Huh, kinda odd seeing as how the vast majority of the vehicles I work on day in and day out tend to be Ford's, and I replace twice as many Ford motors than any other manufacturer's (Duratec is how Ford spell F-U, BTW).

As much as I hate working on Ford's I at least know I have job security as long as they're runnin' down the road. Give me a GM to fix any day

[dohcfiend]

just take a good weekend off, perform all maintainence needed and then take a gallon of degreaser and a pressure washer to clean it up. good to go.

unfortunately i have to agree with you on the paint flaws of that era.

[Zboy]

This is the second LQ1 I've owned. My brother has had three, a good friend had 1 another buddy had 4. EVERY SINGLE ONE PISSED OIL. two cars had less than 40,000 miles and wer not even three years old. If I remeber right my brothers 94 GTP had to repainted less than four years old. I really like these cars but my interest is waning daily. The closer I get to finishing my Z-34, The more shit seems to go wrong.

[StEvEzAsYcHo]

YOu do know the oil likes to come out the pump drive seal right? (Assume this block still used a distributor ignition.. THis is where that would go)

It is located underneath the intakes on the driver's side.. At this point, you can fix it back to stock which can break again, otherwise there is another writeup on a more permanent solution at the WBody boards..

[IsaacHayes]

I replace my everytime I take off the lower intake. Dealer gave me an updated silicone o-ring last time that is supposed to last longer, and also a paper gasket that goes underneath the top, which is something it never had stock...