NancysToy
Motorbike Professor
Those were dark days for GM (and many others). The quality control was horrid, and some of the shops had mechanics so poor they made the worst Spyder dealer horror stories seem like Nirvana. One Chevy van I looked at had the rear fenderwells welded in so badly that you could drop a ping-pong ball outside from the interior. My '79 GMC van ended up at the dealer for a month. When they couldn't repair a simple issue, I threatened to park it in front of the dealership, paint lemon on it, and slash the tires after I called the newspaper. They fixed the original issue, but cretaed a miss that they still couldn't figure out it a week later, I told them to push it outside and if I couldn't get it running by the time they closed I'd sign the tiltle over to them. I had it running in an hour, replace the spark plug they broke putting the motor cover back on. When the brakes failed a month later, and the system had to be flushed, they asked me what it would take to never darken their door again. I settled for a 25% cash rebate and a 44 gallon gas tank. A couple of months after that it stopped ****ing. When I pulled the transmission pan, the shift quadrant was in the bottom of the pan, the factory never tightened the nut. With a little TLC that van went 186,000 miles for me...but it sure was a struggle.
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