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Originally Posted by Rybar
...and not having the time or money to be fixing or repairing a daily driver all the time...
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What problems exactly have you had? In a combined 100k miles on the GM cars my wife and I currently drive, I have replaced one fuel pressure regulator, one coil, and one starter aside from routine maintenance and wear parts. Again, maybe I'm just lucky, but I'm hardly working on them "all the time". None of these are new cars - '98 bonneville 140k, '95 Caprice 150k, and '91 Bonneville 250k. I'm expecting an opti-spark in the caprice within the next 50k, but the others I don't anticipate any more than oil changes and filters for a long time. The only shop visits are to clear the CEL when my wife forgets to put the gas-cap on.
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Originally Posted by Colvindesign
there were quality problems, as well as fit and finish, and the fisher price interiors, and the shorter warranties, peeling/fading paint. These are all things that turned people away.
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I can understand the paint... I've had a few trucks in the blues and silvers that were peelers. The rest, seems to be up to par on the cars I've owned. I've never sat in a car as comfortable as my old '93 Caprice. Of course, that's a much higher quality car than a Grand Am or some of those other cheap small cars that may have been considered "low quality".
It just baffles me that their reputation could be so bad, since all of my GM car experiences have been positive.