Loading ...Did you have to pay for the 10 years insurance? More unneeded spending. Watch out for insurance on repairs. My daughter-in-law had that on her car. The Tranny went, she brings it in and it sat there a long long time. They’ll cover it but not obligated to do it right away. Insurance companies HATE to pay.
I have a fussy mechanic, his scanner was $40,000, and the scanner for components cots him $18,000. The Chevy dealers have better scanners. Any scanner you buy in an auto store for cheap money can’t be that good.
The other mechanic I know, transmissions, recently paid $4,000 for upgrades. Btw transmission rebuilds on those cars are $6,000 and up. Some they can’t rebuild, and have to swap bad ones for factory rebuilt units.
All I’m saying is these cars are fine below 60,000 miles. If you have problems with them later on, paying an American to fix them is very expensive. I have a 2001 GMC Jimmy and my other mechanic had big problems (hours) trying to “bleed the brakes” after changing a hydraulic line.
The effing “computer” would not let him do it, because the ABS lite was on and the fuse removed prior. Even though ABS does not have to work to pass inspection. He had to install a NEW master cylinder to half ass bleed the brakes. I still ended up with a “low pedal” and $600 bill.
Then I went to the other mechanic to install new pads, so the thicker pads would give me a better pedal, more money. Look at all the call backs on new cars these days. They are constantly in a research and development stage.
Cars were perfected by 1970, and after all the new “create more work, more hours” regulations they were still in experimental mode on my “01 GMC. Perhaps the new 2018s are perfected??? I’ve heard many complaints unhappy customers with new cars.