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Z15 last won the day on January 22 2014

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    2009 CTS4
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    3.6L V6 VVT (LY7)

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  1. Its not BS, it happened. Just because you never heard of it does not mean it did not happen. His engine was beyong repair it was so damaged, he was travelling at the speed limit (or more) when it quit. I don't think he had over 100,000 miles because he bought the car used with very low mileage from a GM dealer, it was 2-3 yrs old if I recall correctly. I do recall the reason it was said of why it was traded in was the owner wifes was getting sick from the diesel odor. I think back then the warranty was 3 yrs / 36,000 miles. I distinctly recall he could not get a new crate engine from GM at the time this happened.
  2. Coworker had a 1980ish Olds Regency 98 with the 5.7L diesel. He purchased it used from an Olds dealer with low mileage and only a few years old. He drove it about a year or two (not sure today) back and forth to work all over logging about 25,000+ miles a year. One Monday AM he never showed up for work. We did survey work for the state govt so we were always out on a highway project so we never heard from him. Next day he comes in driving another car, a used Mercury Marquis. Said he was about 25 miles from home (150 miles to job site) on Monday and the engine up and quit going down the road. Would not start, nothing. So he had it towed back to the dealer. They gave him a car to use while they tried to determine why it quit. Next week he came back with the Mercury (he bought) and said the crankshaft in the engine broke in half, engine was shot. He then tried for months to find a replacement engine and could not find anything worth using. Olds had no replacement engine they could order, they told him he would have to buy all the parts and literally piece an engine together at a cost of over $3k back in the mid 1980's. He went and found a salvage yard to install a used 350 gas engine and he gave the car to his daughter and never bought another GM vehicle to this day.
  3. Here a few of them rolling off the line at the Arlington Assembly plant.....according to a friend who is a asst. sales manager at a Cadi dealer they delivered one a few years back and when the lease was up GM had the car transport company pickup the car and return it to GM for reconditioning.
  4. 2 yr lease per wikipedia and not all are Cadi's...
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