"Ask Tadge" comment
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"Ask Tadge" comment
The Ask Tadge section needs to have two categories.... 1 for C7's and one for C6's and earlier generations. The majority of questions that are asked and that he answers have to do with C7's. I don't own or care about C7's.
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It's because the C7 is the new model, and they haven't been around long enough for the forum members to have experienced
all the issues and repairs or little tricks to help them out.
Give them 10 years, and someone will have been there, done that, just like the C6 forum is now. There isn't too many questions that can't be answered by fellow members.
We don't need Tadge to answer any C6 question at this point in time.
A simple question on the C6 General will likely get answered much quicker than Tadge could.
all the issues and repairs or little tricks to help them out.
Give them 10 years, and someone will have been there, done that, just like the C6 forum is now. There isn't too many questions that can't be answered by fellow members.
We don't need Tadge to answer any C6 question at this point in time.
A simple question on the C6 General will likely get answered much quicker than Tadge could.
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Questions for Tadge tend to be more focused on design thinking etc. C6 questions are more along the lines of weak areas of the car and common problems...better answered by members here. Tadge has for the most part moved on from the C6...there's not much engineering being done there anymore and he's the chief engineer.
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Questions for Tadge tend to be more focused on design thinking etc. C6 questions are more along the lines of weak areas of the car and common problems...better answered by members here. Tadge has for the most part moved on from the C6...there's not much engineering being done there anymore and he's the chief engineer.Yup....and as Walter Cronkite used to say at the end of his broadcast everyday....."and that's the way it is!" I can remember when the C6 first hit the scene, then Chief Engineer , Dave Hill was a "hot source" for info at the big shows like Carlisle and elsewhere......very few questions were related to C5's !
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OK, I PMd jvp who runs the Ask Tadge thread and he said,
"As I tell the C5 guys that randomly pop up in the Ask Tadge section: we have to understand that GM's engineers, like in any other company, have to focus their attention on existing hotness, plus the new hotness. C7 is the existing hotness, C8 is the new. We can't keep dragging them back into the past; some of which weren't even around on the C6 (or earlier) programs.
There won't be two sections of "Ask Tadge". We don't go to car shows and ask him about our C5 or our C6. We go to car shows and ask him about the latest/new car. That's where his attention and focus is, and rightfully so."
"As I tell the C5 guys that randomly pop up in the Ask Tadge section: we have to understand that GM's engineers, like in any other company, have to focus their attention on existing hotness, plus the new hotness. C7 is the existing hotness, C8 is the new. We can't keep dragging them back into the past; some of which weren't even around on the C6 (or earlier) programs.
There won't be two sections of "Ask Tadge". We don't go to car shows and ask him about our C5 or our C6. We go to car shows and ask him about the latest/new car. That's where his attention and focus is, and rightfully so."
