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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

General Motors forgets to issue recall or at least TSB on Corvette C7 Stingray "defective" oil filters?

If there was a list of Corvette C7 Stingray greatest bullshit hits, the defective oil filters fairy tale certainly would be a contender for the top spot, competing with Nurburgring rains, ethanol power gains and few other fables that +Tadge Juechter continues to produce.

Nevertheless, after such a credible and non biased fountain of journalism, Car and Driver chose to play along with +General Motors , in apparent attempt to repay advertising contributions, all that has happened since then is a SILENCE.  Since silence can be as expressive as the typical bullshit fairy tales coming from Juechter, the case of defective oil filters was limited to two cars used by Car and Driver that happened to grenade their engines on the account of those defective filters.

The real question here is who exactly came up with this lamest of the lame bullshit stories?  Two possibilities here, either highly overpaid US located corporate cover up expert or severely underpaid GM representative in India?

Either way, this truly pathetic attempt to divert buyers attention from severely flawed LT1 engine, full of subpar quality parts supplied by the latest in the string of lowest bid suppliers is one big failure.  As usual, there is absolutely nobody in GM to admit this epic fuck up and assume responsibility. If it is not the fault of the consumer, it is a fault of a supplier but never a fault of GM, even with quality control of supplied parts clearly pinned on GM itself.

What is interesting here and certainly a double edged sword is the choice of supposedly defective part, an external part, instead of perhaps defective main bearings or connecting rods or God forbid, defective crankshaft?  Since the part is external and easy to replace, this is a pretty clever diversion technique but... there would have to be a follow up with Juechter personally greeting Stingray buyers in the service bay, ready to swap the filter and oil as a very logical preventive measure.

The problem is that nobody is doing anything about these DEFECTIVE filters.  Thus, either the lame story was total bullshit or GM is too cheap to spend the money on "better" filters and extra oil?

Either way, this is not going away and will live on as a very funny example of Stingray related bullshit.  Of course funny only to people who were not dumb enough to buy this POS and spend their time afterwards if an extra coat of wax will not cause the fine LT1 engine to obliterate itself.

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