I tried and tried to be Mr. America and stick with American made cars (is there such a thing) since I started driving 21 yrs ago and I finally had enough. I drove Ford's most of my life and have had some problems but my last two cars have been Chevy and to put it bluntly Chevy quality sucks. I read on the GM newsgroups a couple weeks ago about the DEX-COOL problem they have been having with the 3.4 and 3.1's and how it is eating away at the engine and how the DEX-COOL turns to mud inside your engine. Well I ran outside and checked my radiator...guess what, MUD!!!!!!! So I had it flushed at the local Firestone and 4 days later I am cruising down the freeway and smoke starts pouring out of every vent inside my car. What kills me is that there is a class action law suit against GM for this problem and GM has the nerve to say it is the consumers fault for not maintaining the coolant, but if you read in the manual it says "the coolant is designed to last 5 years or 150,000 miles and NO MAINTENANCE IS REQUIRED during this time frame." Before this all happened the car has been in the shop 4 times for electrical problems which they couldn't find until the problem happened in the mechanics stall..the trunk opened up, the lights came on, etc. I guess if nothing registers on the little handy device they plug underneath the dash then they can't fix it. So at 40K miles I traded it in and took a loss and now I am the proud owner of a foreign made car. I also have a 2003 2500HD
4x4 pick-up. I was all excited the day I bought my truck that I found the Chevy news group and right off the bat I am reading about 4x4 switches that are bad and the infamous "piston slap" problem that GM also says is normal?!?!?!?. So now I have that to worry about. Keep in mind my oil gets changed every 3K miles and all the maintenance is performed at the interval's specified. I tried to be patriotic but I am not a millionaire and can't afford to buy a car and then spend thousands to fix it. I have bought my last American made car.Disgruntled in Detroit