Well was driving home over the weekend and noticed low coolant for the first time on my dash checked the rear windo no smoke pulled it on the garage on stands and inspected for leaks nothing... checked the oil looks good shrugged it off topped it off and drove to work the next day.

Drove about 15 miles and get low coolant again not good.. pull in to work and check my oil...nice milky orange dexacool good ness in the oil and resivoir is empty car ran fine temps were fine looks like the block cracked or possibly head gaskted although it dosent seem like it...


Cars at the dealership and i have a extended warrenty from a third party that covers engin blocks will keep you guys updated.

 

How many miles were on it?

 

47k

 

I just turned 37K and have been watching the coolant level - no changes yet.

The 5 year warranty is up here in a week or so, but I have an extended GM warranty for at least another year or so.

At any rate, good luck, and sorry to hear about that.


Britt

 

update from the dealership cars just outside of warranty for power train but still have yet to diagnose the problem...

 

i ******* hate gm.

 

I'm pretty sure there is extended warranty from GM for the porous block issue.

Cool sorry brah.

 

sadly the dealer never heard of this issue we will find out when they call big gm still dont know yet if its "porous/cracked" block

 

Best of luck.

 

goodluck! warranty replaced mine at 32,000km. same issue u describe.

 

well 4 days now and been playing phone tag with my service advisor still no news but sales called me to tell me that gm has extra incentives on cobalt trade-ins...

 

Well at least they didn't say your muffler delete caused it.

Can't wait to hear the end of this.

 

dealer said engine needs to be replaced dident tell me specefics again... service advisor dosent seem like he knows said hes new... hope to find out more later but they quoated me 3700 for a new engine and 20 hours labor i had to remind them i have a warrenty company and to give them the quote... this has been a mess

 

Stop! Don't let the dealer go ahead and order you a new engine until they figure out what happened. If it's a porus block issue, like stated previously, there should be an extended warranty for that alone. Tell them to check the TSBs for it. If they order a new engine, etc. they will never actually find the cause of it because they will gladly just charge you for it since it's easier to get money from you than from GM .

 

i have yet to find a TSB for it and spoke with 3 other dealerships before i chose this one none of them heard of it and could not find a tsb on it

 

A TSB would not cover this under warranty. Only a recall would cover it.

 

so basically im sol unless my 3rd party warrenty covers it ive already asked about a extended warrenty for porous/cracked block issues dident ring a bell

 

$500 on a new car, less than good negotiating gets you.

Have you contacted another dealer since this one is being ignorant of a known issue?

 

no they aready have my car cant afford to tow it everywhere ive called 3 other dealers none of them have any info on a cracked block issue

 

That sucks man, sorry.

 

UPDATE: Dealer pulled the head and says its pitted and the block looses about 3quarts while under pressure for 30 mins they want to replace the engine but not under gm warrenty since its outside of powertrain . Warrenty company wants them to find the cause of failure or point of failure so still no rental/loaner car going on day 8

 

lol because the pitting in your block is caused by long term wear... good greif.

 

just get ready to buy a LDK for the swap......1500 through zzp. **** spending 3700 plus labor. im in the same boat and about to yank my head off just in case i get lucky with a head gasket, but doubt it. sounds like your third party warranty is trying to beat around the bush also.....

they dont ever warranty ****. no surprise there lol. i was bone stock and cracked a trans, no coverage with the powertrain warranty.

 

^^^^ alot of people have bad experiences with dealerships but mine has been in for alot of warranty work and never a question asked. i even had motor replaced and a rental for 7 days.

good dealerships are rare

 

Lucky you lol