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Originally posted by ez4u2chere@Jun 8 2004, 08:55 AM
So how quickly or soon should I worry about this? The car has 46k miles on it now, so it's not under warranty.
Obviously "if" I do bring it to the dealer I'll try to put up a stink and see if I can get a goodwill warranty. Is the stealer going to charge me to diagnose something that is already obviously apparent?
Also, if I do decide to fix it, and if I can't get any help from GM, how hard is it to fix myself and how much is the gasket? I'm a pretty decent driveway mechanic, so I think I should be able to change it myself. Is there a "how-to" around here?
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Thats a pretty major fix, you have to rip apart the top half of the engine to get to that. Not only that, but if you screw something up, you can easily toast your entire engine. Now if you have the dealership do it, thier work is waranteed (a year), so if it happens again or they don't do it right, you get it fixed for free.
This happened to me, I got bit by my first intake leak about a year ago, this febuary it went bad again. Luckily, I got it fixed again for free. GM has revised the gasket since it first happened to me, so hopefully it won't happen again.