Ouch, yeah. Mine had even been contaminated with coolant and still survived. I think its just luck of the draw like everything else on these cars.

 

troof. awful.

well the bolt is 6 x 1.5 not 8mm and has a 10mm socket head. but otherwise, troof lol

 

It sounds like they charged you the labor for the physical phasers instead of these solenoids. I believe they are both listed as actuators, so maybe they looked up the wrong labor time associated with it and then didn't say anything about it. It takes some time to replace one or both physical phasers. It took me five minutes to replace both of these solenoids though.

Unplug electrical connection, remove bolt, pull solenoid out, slide new solenoid in, tighten bolt, plug in connection. Done. Repeat for other one if needed.

 

Yeah I would take my invoice right back over there and ask for an explanation and a refund. That's bogus.

 

this...this is a 2 minute job. no reason you should have been charged that much

 

THEN call gm and tell them they attempted to take advantage of you. At least if it turns out like we think. Crooks don't deserve any leniency in these situations IMO.

 

I actually just had mine throw me a code at 33000

 

mine went at 45000 kms. my new motor has about 15000 kms on it now so i should be expecting them to go again soon. the original motor in my car cracked between the water pump and oil pan at 60 000 miles. or about 100 000kms. I'm hoping I got a crap motor last time and it doesnt happen again.

 

sigh. I probably could have done this myself. $@#%

 

Can you scan and post up your invoice? I'd like to see it.

 

Sure hopefully you can see it attached below. I also have higher resolution images available as well. I just blocked out my cell & advisor's name.
You should be able to see the 2 part numbers (listed as $50 each) and then the huge labor cost immediately below (labor set to $459.00)

Also - don't judge my poor car's mileage she's my Daily driver

 

Holy crap!

 

Wow.... That's just rediculous. I would absolutely take this up with the service writer at the dealer.

 

Holy bajeezus... You got seriously hosed. Where's Sarah from GM Customer Service? She needs to see this.

For sure go back and get $445 of your money back. Also noticed that they just replaced the bulbs in your headlights when you said it didn't work from switching it but worked with keyless entry. Curious if THAT did anything...

 

OMG dude. You need to address that ASAP, or it's going to be four hundred bucks down the drain.

 

^ this! How can that possibly book out that high?

 

Well, like I stated earlier, they probably looked up the labor for the physical phasers on the cams, and not the phaser solenoids. I believe they are both labeled as "Phaser Actuators", so it might have been easy to get them confused.

 

The tech had to know there was something wrong, though, when it only took him 10 minutes to change both.

 

EXACTLY! They get paid by the book so in his mind, he just made BANK b/c he got that done in like 5 seconds. Crooks crooks crooks!!

 

Well yeah, that part I definitely agree with.

 

Swapped mine out, for the new upgraded ones.
The noise that I had is now gone...

I had the strangest noise on cold startups , for months.
The noise only lasted, maybe one second, some sort of gear,
'grabbing' or 'catching' into place, type of noise.
I had thought that it was some sort of oil 'drain-back' issue.

 

It looks like I should change mind out as well just to prevent this from happening to me too?

 

Todd if you want a set I have some in stock for you at a very good price lol

 

Save me a set John. Maybe you can mail them to me along with the pcv kit when you have it or I may drop by your shop on a weekend. Lmk Thanks.

 

Had my exhaust camshaft actuator go out at like 50k. The car would shake and shudder at idle but would drive fine. It was replaced under the powertrain warranty