The car that wrecked may not have had the lever tightened enough, especially if the driver was dumb enough to keep driving it after the brake alarm kept sounding. As far as I am concerned, the supervisor who brought ear plugs out to them as a "solution" to the problem of the alarm going off should be fired.
Of course they recreated the accident. Too bad they couldn't replicate the stress the driver was under, not knowing what's going to happen unlike a controlled environment. Of course the company had an excuse to blame it on the driver. What if they pulled the brake ten feet later? Just sayin.
They didn't recreate it in the actual package car that it happened in, so whatever results they came up with are meaningless.
And nobody will be as long as the possibility of a lawsuit still exists. Firing someone....even the idiot supervisor whose solution to the brake alarm was a set of earplugs...would constitute an admission of guilt and responsibility on the part of the company. The company has an attorney calling the shots on this one.
Just get home from the Fair? Not making much sense.
They do have some good forward go. They seem to be reliable, the wiring is it's downfall in my eyes.
He's talking about the engine. The LS is the engine platform. Its a government motors product.
If we are talking about the new package cars with the big-block Chevy gasoline engines, they are hideous fuel hogs (like about 5MPG) and according to our mechanics they will be lucky to go 150K miles before requiring a total engine rebuild. Plus the "batmobile" front end and headlights are butt-freaking-ugly. I don't know why we are going back to gas engines when diesels get such better fuel mileage and long term reliability. We have a '95 Freightliner 5-speed P700 with a Powerstroke diesel in our building that has almost 400,000 original miles on the engine and all our mechanics have ever done is replace glow plugs and injectors. I drive it sometimes when my regular car is in the shop and it is a decent work platform that fires right up and still pulls strong. No way in hell will these new cars hold up for the long term like that.
No its a small block. 6.0 ltr like the LS3 Camaro engine. I get 8 mpg . Also despise the shift inhibit. Its going to get some poor sap killed.
The heat shield in my Pkg car started to rattling around 5000 and at 5800 still going. Cant wait for it to fall off driving me crazy. Btw I did tell the mechanic about it. Also the mileage is off and is not in my favor, drive 25 miles and it say you only driven 24.
I noticed that the car has to be COMPLETELY stopped when shifting from drive to reverse and you have to shift slowly or else you get the inhibit message. I imagine they put this feature in to save transmissions but it is a pain in the neck.
But it is so cool to look at that side mirror and watch the black smoke blowing out.
