My family has owned dozens of GM cars since 1953. Including 3 1964 Chevelles, 1967 SS396 Chevelle , 1969 427 Corvette, 1973 454 Kingswood Estate, 2006 SSR, 2008 G8 Pontiac Two years ago I bought my fifth Suburban. All my other Suburbans went 250,000 miles or better with few problems. This 2018 Suburban has been a trip. In the first 15,000 it got an alternator, a melted shift cable because of a missing ground cable, one of the engine oil cooler lines blew off, my wife go stranded with it 800 miles from home because of an ecm malfunction and one window motors had to be replace. Let me tell you what is going on. I own a repair shop for 41 years. 90% of the time we get parts from a GM dealer the parts are made everywhere but the U.S. If anyone has had the misfortune of going to Rochester, NY there are nothing but miles and miles of closed up GM parts factories. Has anyone ever seen a 40 story office building boarded up? That is the old GM building in downtown Rochester. GM makes very little. Like Chrysler they outsource everything to the lowest bidder. The old pre bankrupt GM made the car bumper to bumper except for tires, glass and a few other things. This is how GM repays the government for bailing them out. Barra and GM management should be hanged. GM invented the automatic transmission. They sold major components to their competitors like transmissions, gear boxes, power steering pumps, A/C compressors, alternators and brake systems. GM in the 1970's invented and manufactured the best and most sophisticated ignition control module. It not only eliminated points but varied dwell with RPM for a smooth acceleration sequence. It was the size of a matchbook when Mercedes had a box under the hood to do the same job the size of a breadbox. Today, GM is suffering from a chip shortage because they don't produce anything themselves. How could a company that use to sell 750,000 Buicks every year barely sell 200,000 Buicks when there are more cars on the road than ever. Simple, they make junk since the bankruptcy.
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