George_S54 wrote:
Dooglas wrote:
Skunkhome wrote:
By 1976 GM had lost all control of quality. There were too many things wrong with the car to enumerate. The worst was the odd firing V6 that I ended up having to change the timing-chain on it three times before I sold it with 80,000 miles on it. Havent owned a GM vehicle since.
Not to mention the infamous Oldsmobile diesel. It gave diesel cars a bad name in the US for decades.
Probably from the same era Douglas, the 1970s, the GMC diesel pickup. My brother bought one, and the happiest day of ownership was when he emerged from the grocery store and found it missing. It was stolen.
Where I worked we had a couple of the trucks, when they got bad, well badder than they were new, we bought some used Oldsmobile gas engines to slip in. As the diesel was actually a gas engine converted to diesel it was a pretty easy job to convert to take the gas engine.
