50000 mile engine services
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Trust them to over-recommend everything, including oil change intervals. Are you using the built-in Oil Life Monitoring system?Ghost said:
Trust them to change nothing that you can't confirm they did properly afterward.
Highly recommend checking the Owner's Manual for the GM recommended service intervals. Basically if you're current on oil, no other fluid needs to be changed at 50K. Just check the levels. A competent and honest independent mechanic can do that for you without any worry that they're going to rip you off by recommending a CHANGE when only a CHECK is needed.
Also check Yelp for reviews and to locate such a mechanic.
Friends don't let friends use Quicky Lube joints.
Boricua SS
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i would say rear diff, and a trans pan drop and filter change, or at least check them. some people flush the tranny fluid.. but thats an ongoing debate whether to flush or just pan drop... i did a coolant flush at 30k miles as well.. but i have an SS.. i dont know if thats necessary for an I6... and i would check your throttle body as well..
edit: Roadie beat me to the punch too lol...
edit: Roadie beat me to the punch too lol...
- Jun 1, 2012
- 932
the roadie said:
Oil life system what ??? I want that ! What is it ? I need it now
Lol only thing I pay at the jiflube is oil changes. I do my own air filter, bulbs, tire rotations, fuel system treatments.
Boricua SS said:
Lol i did my thorttle body my self I even removed that plastic tube thing that it bolts to. I got my truck @ 30k im now at 50k. Iv noticed 2 to 3rd shift in tran is starting to hard shift ? Well it does it sometimes also at stop lights sometimes it feels like it is auto shifting wrong. Iv never flushed my tran before in any of my vehicles and im scares to will break something ?
Voymom
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- Feb 3, 2012
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McGMT said:
It's Roadie language again, sometimes I just don't get that man
The oil life monitor is located in your DIC(Drivers information center) It can tell you the % of your oil life...like mine sits at 28% right now. If I had a picture I would show you.
Here is a picture...My DIC is where my MPG is. I have a button to cycle through things like, stop watch, oil life, and so forth.
If you don't have a DIC your a woman... err wait, wrong subject. If you don't have a DIC it is a light on the cluster....
I gotta say it.... Let me be the first to notify Google there's an outage in your neighborhood.Voymom said:It's Roadie language again, sometimes I just don't get that man
Read The Fine Manual
I honestly thought EVERYONE knew that one.
Note: the word "fine" is subject to regional variation.
its just blank......?:thumbdown::banghead:
- Jun 1, 2012
- 932
the roadie said:
TBO i didnt know about all of these cool stuff on the TB until i joined GMTN. thanks alot ! lol
alright ill just buy this and be done with it
Since the last cluster i found for my truck is $400 and plain without the sleek aluminum backing etc etc that one is Kilometer but thats okay
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So ill get the tran flushed with the pan dropped next week. i will not be going to jiflube cause there price are redonkulis.
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The DIC-filled cluster does you no good without the steering wheel with required DIC-control buttons, and the harness and clockspring to go with it. Not a cheap upgrade for the DIC-less trucks. There is an alternative upgrade path for a DIC-transplant, but I'll just mention it exists, and you can practice your hunting skills. It's out there.
Shun them.
Prices are the least of their serious offenses against the environment and honest dealings with their victims. They are the moral equivalent of a dentist advising you to come in every month for a teeth cleaning. And when you go in, every month, they tell you you have lice in your hair and they upsell you on a $200 hair lice treatment while you get your teeth cleaned.Ghost said:
Shun them.
So then your steeringwheel doesn't have all the buttons on it? They are actually on the dash of the 9-7x for anybody who cares.
I had my oil changed yesterday at the local Firestone and you feel scummy going in and worse going out. They recommended a ton of stuff that has already been done. I asked them to rock the car and let me know where they thought the squeek that is constant with every bump might be coming from and since I wouldn't pay their 10$ fee, they said they couldn't make it squeek. They have gotten to the point where every thing is an upcharge.
I had my oil changed yesterday at the local Firestone and you feel scummy going in and worse going out. They recommended a ton of stuff that has already been done. I asked them to rock the car and let me know where they thought the squeek that is constant with every bump might be coming from and since I wouldn't pay their 10$ fee, they said they couldn't make it squeek. They have gotten to the point where every thing is an upcharge.
For God's sake, why?!?!?Jkust said:
Do they have topless female mechanics or anything else to recommend them?
the roadie said:For God's sake, why?!?!?
Do they have topless female mechanics or anything else to recommend them?
No they have short, fat, bearded guys. Well the choices within a block of eachother are Walmart, Firestone, Goodyear and Jiffy lube. Firestone had a 15$ coupon which becomes 25$ out the door for the sixth quart of oil and 'shop supplies'. They are widely renound as a rip off shop as is Goodyear who screwed me on something a few years back, and I won't go to Walmart or Jiffy lube no matter what. The only reason I go there is that once in a while they will miraculously catch something wrong whereas Walmart and Jiffy don't even have that capability. Although I never paid attention enough, my dad was a career auto mechanic and so I know enough to know when they are feeding me a line of bs which is often. I used to change my oil myself for years but had one too many issues with oil on the garage floor and not being able to get the filter off plus my time is just worth more now than back in the day.
I go to a small mom and pop shop who I actually trust when something serious needs fixing but not since my first Rainier three 360's ago have I had to visit. They are out of the way though.
Since I treat this forum as my personal soapbox sometimes, let me pontificate: Bad shops need to die or change. By patronizing them, you enable them to stay alive, and worse - to victimize others. Have you added an honest review to their Yelp profile? If not, you should. If not for yourself, for your fellow citizens. Don't use them when their coupon is good. Don't use them when you can supervise them and QA their work. A boycott should be a boycott. And let them know why you've left them. My advice is to not patronize ANY SHOP whose reputation or behavior towards me is bad - not just patronize the "last one left". Take a stand:Jkust said:
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill
Man, this says it all. That mom & pop shop may not be there next time you need them if you don't help keep them alive by also bringing your oil changes to them. So it's a couple of bucks more. My principles are worth it. YMMV. I do my own fluids except transmission (a long story) and I let an independent GM-only specialist do that. That guy saves my butt at least once a year, so I help him out by leaving the Roadiemobile there for all week if necessary (if I'm going on a business trip) and he can work it into a gap in his schedule and we both win.
Ghost said:
You just can't use all the functions without the buttons... But you can wire up your ownnn buttons.. And I found about 20 TB speedos with dic's for around 100 bucks...
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Wooluf1952
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Seriously, I wish dealers (actually the service writers - a commission-based position, not known for having deep technical knowledge of every possible platform that rolls through the door) would just admit they don't know something, rather than make stuff up.
The gauge cluster will work just fine without steering wheel buttons, but the DIC cannot be controlled without either steering wheel buttons (and the harness and clockspring that supports them) *or* substitute buttons mounted elsewhere.
The gauge cluster will work just fine without steering wheel buttons, but the DIC cannot be controlled without either steering wheel buttons (and the harness and clockspring that supports them) *or* substitute buttons mounted elsewhere.
the roadie said:
That's pretty much what my reply to his PM earlier said... Only thing you can control without buttons is the ODO -Trip A,B. Four momentary buttons and some wire n POW you have a functional DIC...
Oh, and I found some realllly cheap junkyard clusters...
- Jun 1, 2012
- 932
Okay, so I vacuumed(sp) out the truck, changed the oil added marvel mystery oil, flush fuel system (also added mystery oil), added cruise control, checked all the psi in tires, lubed all hinges cleaned all the light bulb plugs with spray. Still need to flush trans...