04 ion quad coupe lives

[lji372]

Just wanted to share my hate for GM. Ill try to keep it short. I bought an 04 ion with 67k on the clock from a retired lady who's daughter ran it through a HUGE puddle at highway speed. Water got in the motor and ruined it. My mechanic found a 2.2 with 20k and all was well...until the unknowingly infamous cvt trans started acting up (I want to kick myself for not doing my homework on this car before I bought it). I found out GM had an extended warranty from a class action lawsuit. After a bunch of reading old google searches it turned out they knew it was faulty from the start. But chose to screw the consumer instead of scrap it. GM told me I bought the car 6 mos too late to qualify for ANY help. Not a trans shop around would touch it and GM wanted 5500 to do the job??
After searching Saturn forums with a huge number of unhappy Saturn owners I found a couple trailblazers who swapped the trans from the 4 door and with some minor issues it worked. It took me almost 2 years but I lined up a mechanic (every trans shop said no) who had ties with a junkyard who did the swap:)
All gears shifting smoothly with no engine light no problems at all actually. Now why the heck didn't GM just do it like that when they KNEW there was a problem?? I will be going next week to register the car as long as my new vanity plate choice is still available (its the only way the states system would accept it).

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I know some will ask why not scrap it? Too much into it to scrap it. Plus I wouldn't get to drive it around with that plate.

[H_M_T_81]

After a bunch of reading old google searches it turned out they knew it was faulty from the start. But chose to screw the consumer instead of scrap it...

...Now why the heck didn't GM just do it like that when they KNEW there was a problem??...

Oh, sounds like something FORD would do! Can you say PINTO?! lol Ford guys are so funny thinkin' their poopoo don't stink but are so quick to trash talk anything that ain't a Ford :rolleyes:

[lji372]

Oh, sounds like something FORD would do! Can you say PINTO?! lol Ford guys are so funny thinkin' their poopoo don't stink but are so quick to trash talk anything that ain't a Ford :rolleyes:

i'm certain they all suck in one way or another. i'm not a one car company guy. after all i did buy the saturn and was very happy with a previous s series which is why i bought the ion. but no other car company has basically told me to go piss up a rope, therefore i have become an anything but a gm car guy. even ditched my plans of getting a classic gto. hurts me more than them (:bigcry:)but i cannot take pride in any gm after the way i was talked to and treated buy their (lack of) customer service dept.

i will still admire the old gto's though:beer:

[Joe Walsh]

Oh, sounds like something FORD would do! Can you say PINTO?! lol
Ford guys are so funny thinkin' their poopoo don't stink but are so quick to trash talk anything that ain't a Ford :rolleyes:

:shake:......Yeah....FORD sucks!

BTW: Remember FORD was the only US manufacturer who didn't need a government bailout to survive.
GM and Chrysler can thank all the taxpayers for their jobs!

I owned a GM SUV and it was a good vehicle....I just got tired of sitting in that 'everything is grey plastic' interior....:snore:

[sailsmen]

Ford paid dearly for the Pinto.
We have all paid and continue to pay for GM's incompetence.

[MyBlackBeasts]

BTW: Remember FORD was the only US manufacturer who didn't need a government bailout to survive.
GM and Chrysler can thank all the taxpayers for their jobs!

I have always been a Ford nut but mostly owned GM as kept falling in to deals I could not pass up - perk of wrenching in a local service station.

Followed the pre-production of the Impala SS & fell in love, saw the pricing & figured I'd never own one.

In 1995 a friend worked in a Milwaukee Chevrolet dealer body shop & told me there was a 94 SS Exec car on the lot. Test drive = purchase. The car was awesome and great quality.

6 months later on a follow up to the dealer for a minor issue there was a new 96 on the floor. Stuck my head in it and saw they fixed the 2 things I hated on the car. The column shift replaced with floor shifter & digital speedo replaced with analogue gages. An hour later 94 traded back & new 96 ordered.

This was the very 1st new car I have ever purchased. Biggest disappointment in my life ever.

I am disgusted that the factory will build a car that their bosses drive to a superior spec than the ones they sell to the customer. Shame on the entire industry.

The car had 2 major mechanical issues before 4000 miles (which GM refused to stand behind). I had to call Detroit and threaten massive bad publicity before they finally agreed to a partial deal on the A.I.R. pump that they NEW was defective from factory - TSB on issue but no recall.

Then they took the bail-out $$$. I swore I would never purchase a new GM vehicle until they paid the taxpayer back 100%.

Then that P.O.S. GM CEO got on TV and LIED to my face stating they had paid their loan back completely! LIAR! LIAR! LIAR!

I will now NEVER IN MY LIFETIME ever purchase a new GM product.

When I picked up my MM I fell in Love again like I did with the 94 SS.

I will say this though, Ford is very lucky that GM took the $$$. Had they not, they would have come out of the bankruptcy and would have put Ford out of business. Double edged sword for the consumer...