Extreme Oil Leak!!
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I would not volunteer that you drove the car after you knew there was a major oil leak if I were you............
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I bet the fix in your case will be easy, but make sure the dealer cleans every nook and cranny of oil, that alone should be a 3 or 4 hour job.
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No oil lights, CEL, nothing.
Just waiting for the dealership service center to call and advise me on what's going on.
Obviously, the high pressure side of the oil system went poop somewhere.
The engine is completely fine.
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All the cars have oil coolers standard. The C7's cooler is a liquid/liquid cooler by the oil pan. I'll bet one of the lines came loose.
There's nothing in a C5/C6 that will auto shut down the car due to low oil pressure. It'll start chimeing at you and flash LOW OIL PRESSURE on the DIC, but it won't turn off until the car runs dry and seizes.
There's nothing in a C5/C6 that will auto shut down the car due to low oil pressure. It'll start chimeing at you and flash LOW OIL PRESSURE on the DIC, but it won't turn off until the car runs dry and seizes.
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What a bummer, GM QC strikes again! Whatever you find out it is I'd tell them to give you a new car, 11 miles and losing something that catastrophic is complete and utter BS.
You're lucky it didn't light up, if the car was real hot and all that oil got onto the exhaust it would have.
You're lucky it didn't light up, if the car was real hot and all that oil got onto the exhaust it would have.
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Without going into the gory details, my son's Grand Prix with 190K miles had an oil sensor "blow out" and the oil level went to completely empty. The engine ran for a little while after the disaster. Bottom line, after the incident which did absolutely no damage to the engine his oil pressure went back to exactly where it was before the blow out after the sensor(and oil) were replaced. He's now at 199K.
He had an aftermarket oil pressure gauge installed - the sensor got damaged when the front wheel drive differential exploded as he was accelerating on ice/dry pavement/ice/dry pavement. Today's engines (and oils) can withstand a lot of disasters.
He had an aftermarket oil pressure gauge installed - the sensor got damaged when the front wheel drive differential exploded as he was accelerating on ice/dry pavement/ice/dry pavement. Today's engines (and oils) can withstand a lot of disasters.
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What a bummer, GM QC strikes again! Whatever you find out it is I'd tell them to give you a new car, 11 miles and losing something that catastrophic is complete and utter BS.
You're lucky it didn't light up, if the car was real hot and all that oil got onto the exhaust it would have.
You're lucky it didn't light up, if the car was real hot and all that oil got onto the exhaust it would have.
I've seen a similar issue with a BMW when a tech didn't tighten the oil cap properly and the hot oil poured out... not suggesting that is the issue but who knows what happened at this point.
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What a bummer, GM QC strikes again! Whatever you find out it is I'd tell them to give you a new car, 11 miles and losing something that catastrophic is complete and utter BS.
You're lucky it didn't light up, if the car was real hot and all that oil got onto the exhaust it would have.
You're lucky it didn't light up, if the car was real hot and all that oil got onto the exhaust it would have.
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Because a major problem has NEVER happened to a new car from any manufacturer other than GM before It's not like the car caught on fire on the road... hmmm... where did I read about that happening?
I've seen a similar issue with a BMW when a tech didn't tighten the oil cap properly and the hot oil poured out... not suggesting that is the issue but who knows what happened at this point.
I've seen a similar issue with a BMW when a tech didn't tighten the oil cap properly and the hot oil poured out... not suggesting that is the issue but who knows what happened at this point.
And of course it happens to all manufacturers but I have to tell you, IMO the amount of continual problems with this car are beyond excessive and anyone who says differently is in denial.
I for one would not want that car anymore, it probably reeks of oil.
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So what are you suggesting, everyone stop buying them?
And those that do take them the scrap pile?
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There have been what, over 12K C7 manufactured? And what percentage of those cars have reported problems? 1%? 10% 13.2%? Face it, you don't really know (unless you've seen some documented evidence somewhere)?
That's why anecdotal evidence is never used in scientific circles......
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At this point, it is your subjective view, based on anecdotal evidence, only and part of that view is based on your personal perspective and bias. You might be right, you might not be too. With over 18,000 cars on the road now, I'm not sure how what we hear on this forum could be considered "beyond excessive" in any sense of the phrase. There have, without a doubt, been some teething problems... the question I would ask is whether this any more "excessive" than any other new car? My subjective and biased view is it is no different than most any other car... maybe I'm in denial, maybe I'm not.
I'd love to see data on this but we know it doesn't exist and this is speculation on your part at this point mixed with a little bit of bias against the C7. You show any of us how the problems to date have been "beyond excessive" for a first year, re-designed car and I will admit to being completely "in denial" and happily eat crow
Here we may agree depending on the severity of the damage... again, speculation until we know more.
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