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GM Memories
That's a problem caused by Mike Savoie Chevrolet, NOT General Motors!
General Motors Chevrolet Division has a phone number for their main service department and a call to them would have corrected the dual problem for the headlight fix. If the car was still under warrenty, the headlight would have been fixed at NO cost to you, the customer. This is a problem that most owners don't know and follow through on. Getting screwed by a dealer is not what the corporation likes and reporting it would have corrected the problem and the dealer warned to comply.
GM Memories
This is for earthworm - and to all the clown-jerks that buy foreign cars and then write smug stupid comments trying to justify how smart they are just because their car was assembled off shore - most of you are phonies trying to impress someone and just because you think an import is better doesn't make it so. No, most of you guys are unAmerican shallow minded selfish jerks that don't have enough common sense to buy American made cars because they are great cars and buying American cars keeps Americans working. Duh.
GM Memories
Only once, as I recall, have I ever been to a GM dealer for anything.
It was 1957, I needed a shift fork for the '40 Chevrolet.
Seventy cents and seventy minutes later the fork was in place and she was on the Chatham, New York roads.
Now I read that 40 - 50 years later, the GM customer is treated like dirt.
Exactly what went wrong ?
Greed run amuck ?
Poor education ?
Is simply getting along with others not taught ?
GM Memories
What makes me sad is the lack of intellect from so many here, including GM management.
From them ,I'd expect more.
To the "Jap hater"...this is so easy, I might be the same way when young, but the education never stops.
We must face the truth , the Japanese simply "do it better". If not, I would not own a Honda.
When and if GM decides to "do it better", I'll then buy from them..
Our government should have played a far larger, and far more positive role in this mess..
Maybe they tried and GM and the unions never listened..
Remembering GM
I'm a true AMERICAN, never own an import never will, I think my Dad would rollover in the grave if I did, he fought in WWII against the Japs. When you buy from them you support them, free trade killed this country, everything you buy is made elsewhere. I worked for GM for 27 years in OKC OK, best times in my life were there, then they closed in 2006 cause of the imports. I retired in March of this year, then lost my dental and vision. I read about our wages were too high, I know people that make what I made still maybe with more benifits than what I had, no one is attacking their industry. If your to blame someone, blame yourself for not supporting AMERICAN.
GM Memories
Mother bought a Chevrolet Impala from Mike Savoie Chevrolet years ago. Subsequently, one of the headlights went out, so we took it to Mike Savoie Chevrolet's service department. The service department wouldn't even write up the service report unless we agreed to pay a $60 service charge. The headlight needed repairing so the $60 was paid.
Hours later, the car was repaired. The service drivethru a Savoie Chevrolet was busy so we drove away promptly. Once outside the service drive, we stopped to see if the headlight was repaired. It wasn't the headlight still did not work.
So we drive back around and re-enter the service drivethru at Mike Savoie Chevrolet. The service manager again said service wouldn't touch the car unless we agreed to pay another $60 up front.
That's my memory of GM-Chevrolet, haven't owned another GM vehicle since, and never will - for cause.
Big 3
Big3.. Its my belief GM failed because of their Business Model.. period.
They use to "build the cars consumers wanted," but that stopped long ago. When they started hearing from consumers, "We wanted fuel economy cars," they kept building gas hogs, as prices of fuel went above $4 a gallon (here).
I saw GM failing over 20 years ago. When a company violates the laws of economics, they are doomed to failure at some point in time. GM (& the other car companies) paid most employees on the assembly line more then they were worth. A high school drop out could go to work there, & make more then a school teacher ($70 + per hour with benefits). The only industry where the uneducated could make that kind of money. When the companies are doing well.. that can float for a while.. but when the company is loosing money because no ones buying their cars (because they're not listening to consumers).. that pay scale will kill a business.
Then we had the UAW. Every year demanding more, & more.. when the company is making less. Instead of making concessions (until the end of course) they recommend striking, throw the vote out, & the vote says "STRIKE". Thus cornering GM, & the others to give in to demands. What amazes me is.. the last time GM employees went on strike, GM told them they couldn't afford anymore, & its possible they'd have to shut down." They went on strike anyways. Thus putting themselves out of work. The UAW themselves had to know the out come of striking, yet put their members heads on the chopping block anyways.
I feel bad for the families, but for the employees who kept voting to strike, I have no sympothy. It was their greed that put them out of work.
GM
Lion Still Die - you forgot Brazil .
GM
We the tax payers give GM billions and GM says the going to make jobs, great! Except not in the USA but in China, Japan, Canada, and Mexico. I'm so happy!!lol Nobama!
GM Memories
I remember when I said "I'll be glad when they go " And now look there goes Pontiac . AAAAAhhh , makes you feel good ,don't it?
GM and its help.
Sure GM has had its problems, mistakes and mis-cues. The new contracts and management is now taking going to change this I believe. GM hired me from Vietnam, Marines, wounded and disabled, when no one else would. They gave me 37 years and I appreciate every one of those years. Thank you General Motors.
Hooray for General Motors
37 years at GM, congratulations. Any chance that you will give some of your pension back so that the next generation can have a retirement of bare necessities in their 70's?
Speaking from experience, I sat at the tech center for months totally amazed at the people who found creative places to sleep on company time. Then there were the salaried who went out to lunch for several hours, had sex in the parking lot with people other than their spouse, oh my the experience I gained there was just shocking. If you knew what department I worked in or for whom, I assure you, you would be shocked.
I grin at the comment that we are a minority of "nay sayers." GM stock this quarter hit it's lowest mark in 75 years. I'd say it's more than just a few of us.
Hey I hope that a core of good employees can be salvaged out of this mess, but time's a wastin. We've been fighting the Japanese for some 30 years now, and they overtook the market. What are we waiting on to start fixing things?
I personally cannot afford to invest more time in a failed American industry. It's an embarrassment. We lost.
Pooper scooper
The banks went out because of all the ridiculous loans out to
anyone and everyone. And when the ARMs came due no one could pay for them . Watch the Zeigeist video . This high spending goverment is spending more money than world will ever have .
Big 3
Mabe the idiots that don't want then to survive should look at the facts. (A). They tried making the puddle jumpers before but nobody wanted them. They are consumer driven and make what the public wants. (B). They the auto companies should have all the ninrods in DC come to Detroit and see how cars are made, then explain what its take to go from concept to off the line with 25k plus parts etc. We should all wonder how gas suddenly went to $4 and the Banks went in the pooper.. The big 3 didn't create these issuues. This country has to get them back on the road to success and screw the other car makers...This is America don't think for a minute that Japan and whoever if this mess was over there wouldn't kick our asses out.
GM Memories
I remember when GM was great...oh ..no that was
G.E.M . GM sucks now that I think about it.
And I'll be so glad to see them go.
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