23rd Aug 2010, 08:54

Oooohhh, I wasn't aware that highway cruising and pulling a 3,200 pound boat two or three times a year, with a vehicle rated at 5,000 pounds towing capacity, was abuse according to GM. Huh, guess I should have ALWAYS had Toyotas that stand up better and are more refined and smooth and can handle their towing rated weights for pulling boats... never mind outperforming ANY GM SUV out there in pretty much any category.

There was NO abuse on either of my TB's as they were primarily my wife's vehicles and she drives very mildly. 85% of the miles were highway cruising and not stop and go driving. Why do people continue to think drivers are at fault when GM junk surfaces? You got EXTREMELY lucky that absolutely nothing has gone wrong on any of your SUV's. I have had other people in my family that have had the same issues with Envoy's and TB's. The front ends are trash in these trucks. Failing tie rods at 30K miles? Junk! NEVER will I own anything made by GM again... ever. I won't even list all of the crap that failed on these trucks that totaled almost $4K by the time I was at 90K miles. Type "Trailblazer issues" into Google and nearly all of my problems will handily come up for you to research.... yep we had all of them.

My favorite was the "stalling for no apparent reason while you are sitting at a light" issue. That was awesome...and very safe too as you could imagine. Of course the dealer found nothing wrong so it was all in our heads.... huh. Yeah, great products GM makes. I guess if you have a blind devotion to failing industries then that would be so.... but I am done with domestic second rate garbage. Most of them are built in foreign plants anyhow, so I'd rather support U.S. workers and buy Hondas, Toyotas and Subarus.