NWRed
12-04-2007, 07:20
I bought a stock 04 Dmax with 75K miles on it last Feb. No mods done to it that Im aware of. In August I had the "water in fuel" message/CE light come on and the truck went into limp mode 400 miles from home.
I parked it at a dealership a couple miles up the freeway. The next day they diagnosed that it musta been bad fuel and that I needed the 100K service at 103K :D The tech said that the there was an issue with the #7 injector pigtail and gave me a copy of the service bulletin. He said mine appeared fine and that they didnt have one in stock and couldn't get one for a couple days so unless I was going to hang out til then I shouldn't worry about it.
This last sunday night, I was driving down the freeway and the check engine light came on and went into limp mode. Parked the truck, turned it off and got out and poked around the wiring for the #7 injector an it started back up just fine, get a couple miles down the freeway and it starts up again. Had it towed 55 miles to the dealer I bought it from. They told me on Monday that the #7 injector has electrically failed and I kept badgering the rep about what causes this, i.e. the original pigtail design, which he said is probably the cause. He said my total without the pigtail kit was going to be $1100 and after figureing out that I probably want/need the upgraded kit to prevent this from happening , added $250.
What I wold like to know is, has anyone gotten GM to replace an injector and the pigtail kit in their LLY due to this design flaw? I talked to a GM customer service rep over the phone and through his heavy accent, I was able to figure out that GM didnt wanna fix it. They were "very sorry to hear about my unfortunate problem".
I figure if I have to pay for this I'm going to be real tempted to trade it in on something with a no bull**** warranty. The bulletin for the pigtail upgrade is dated March of 06, so they've known about this problem longer then that if that if they had a fix and a bulletin available.
Anyone one been down this road with GM before and have any advice?
I parked it at a dealership a couple miles up the freeway. The next day they diagnosed that it musta been bad fuel and that I needed the 100K service at 103K :D The tech said that the there was an issue with the #7 injector pigtail and gave me a copy of the service bulletin. He said mine appeared fine and that they didnt have one in stock and couldn't get one for a couple days so unless I was going to hang out til then I shouldn't worry about it.
This last sunday night, I was driving down the freeway and the check engine light came on and went into limp mode. Parked the truck, turned it off and got out and poked around the wiring for the #7 injector an it started back up just fine, get a couple miles down the freeway and it starts up again. Had it towed 55 miles to the dealer I bought it from. They told me on Monday that the #7 injector has electrically failed and I kept badgering the rep about what causes this, i.e. the original pigtail design, which he said is probably the cause. He said my total without the pigtail kit was going to be $1100 and after figureing out that I probably want/need the upgraded kit to prevent this from happening , added $250.
What I wold like to know is, has anyone gotten GM to replace an injector and the pigtail kit in their LLY due to this design flaw? I talked to a GM customer service rep over the phone and through his heavy accent, I was able to figure out that GM didnt wanna fix it. They were "very sorry to hear about my unfortunate problem".
I figure if I have to pay for this I'm going to be real tempted to trade it in on something with a no bull**** warranty. The bulletin for the pigtail upgrade is dated March of 06, so they've known about this problem longer then that if that if they had a fix and a bulletin available.
Anyone one been down this road with GM before and have any advice?