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mike100 · 08-19-2015

Didn't NorthStar engines lose headgaskets pretty regularly? That was all about the same time that Dexcool problems started cropping up.

They advertised 5 years 100k miles on the tuneup/coolant service and guess what, people didn't even do the maintenance at all, much less at 60-80k that would have been more reasonable. Even with accounts of perfectly good running high mileage GM cars out there, I would never buy one (except for Corvette because there is no other car competing in that price range). I got burned on a couple of 90's trucks (one small block based one and the gmt-800 LS based one- complete lemons... they have cut too much out of the cars they make and they just don't seem to run long enough before failing. Even my 2008 C6 needed a water pump at 22k miles.

08-19-2015	#85
mike100 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: San Marcos CA Posts: 1,786	Re: Point/Counterpoint: DOHC v OHV Didn't NorthStar engines lose headgaskets pretty regularly? That was all about the same time that Dexcool problems started cropping up. They advertised 5 years 100k miles on the tuneup/coolant service and guess what, people didn't even do the maintenance at all, much less at 60-80k that would have been more reasonable. Even with accounts of perfectly good running high mileage GM cars out there, I would never buy one (except for Corvette because there is no other car competing in that price range). I got burned on a couple of 90's trucks (one small block based one and the gmt-800 LS based one- complete lemons... they have cut too much out of the cars they make and they just don't seem to run long enough before failing. Even my 2008 C6 needed a water pump at 22k miles.