I just hope that they will even look at it. I called them and told them I had issues getting my car to start and that it was aftermarket turboed and they guy said they couldn't work on it. But, if I just tell them to fix the electrical problem they should at least be able to do that right?

You're a gm mechanic are you not?

 

they said they wont help bc its aftermarket turbo'd?ur not in for warranty work, ur in to pay money to have it worked on, they charge a hourly rate your going to pay i dont see why they would refuse money

 

Yea, i'm a gm tech. I hate when dealers do this ****. Find another dealer or go talk to someone else at that dealer, tell em not to be scared, it's just a cobalt with some issues. You really need to make nice with one of the techs and explain everything to them. But beware most techs get paid flat rate and they will run from **** like this because they are afraid they won't make money working on it. Just tell them you need the ecm and body control system checked out, you think the theft deterent is activated for no reason. But make sure you tell them as much as possible about the things you have done they can properly diag it. Just don't expect this to be covered under warranty, and they could possibly put a waranty block on it if the service manager is a dick. Wish i was closer to you. I could fix this **** for sure...

 

yeah, i have a buddy in 2 dealers, both in the service departments, so while one of them is a total goof ball, its always a funny story when i go to that dealer lol, whle the other one tends to be the on i would trust to work on my car :p

 

Well, good news is that I got the guy at the Chevy dealership to work on my car.

Bad new is, they won't be able to get to it until Monday. Go figure.

Either way, I'm just happy it's finally going to get fixed. tuning should resume monday.

 

w000t good to hear man

 

Any word???

 

I don't think they looked at it until late today. I called them at 4:30, and they were still diagnosing it. They think it's the theft deterrent shutting it off, just like we said all along. They should have it at least running by tomorrow, since it will be their first job since they didn't finish today. I'm not excited about seeing the bill though. Probably a couple hours of labor at least.

 

thats sucks man.. but hopefully it gets running

 

get'r running man

 

mine is alive

 

Good to know. Mine is at the dealership getting the theft deterrent removed tomorrow, so mine will also be running.

 

Guess what guys, it's running!!!

They said the problem was the ecm, it didn't take the tune I tried to load. So, they cleared it and reflashed it and I will have a running car as soon as I get back from work! Hopefully I can shoot a quick video tonight.

 

thats strange .. very strange.. so did trying to load a new tune brick the ecm.. or just put on theft deterent or none of the above

 

Awesome! cant wait to see the video.

 

so u are running on stock tune correct?

so will you load the trifecta tune in when u get back home?

 

Yes, they flashed it back to stock. And he was like " it's running like ****!". Well, running 42's on an untuned engine tends to do that... haha.

Yeah ill tune it when i get home.

 

nice man I cant wait to see some vids

 

hhaha you should've been like WTF DID YOU DO IT"S SHOULDN"T BE RUNNING LIKE **** lol

 

could it be... tonight

 

I went and looked at it. It's definitely running rough, but it's nothing a tune couldn't fix.

Paid the dealership an undisclosed amount of money, a very pretty penny to be exact. Sucks, but at least it's running.

I went to tune it and guess what? The SD card isn't in the tuner! I forgot I left it here at the house, now I'm on the way back to load the tune, and hopefully drive the bastard home!

Wish me luck!

 

wow i been following this from the start and im very excited to see this running

 

Wow, i would punch something very hard if i forgot an sd card like that.

 

LUCK HOMIEE!!!! I did that back when i had the GT tuner.. i went to data log one day and i realized i forgot my SD card in m work comp lol

 

Wow. Speechless right now.

I got to the car, made sure it ran first. It did, just bad because of no tune.

Loaded the tune, and same issue. Cranks.....then dies. Over and over. No codes, no nothing.

Reverted back to stock programming, and it starts right up. I can't drive it of course because it's not tuned.

Soooo, car is still at the dealership. I planned to drive it home, but that's not going to happen anytime soon.

Vince is on vacation starting today, and won't be back until Friday. Kind of sickened really.

It's obviously the tune, I just don't know where to begin troubleshooting. How could it be off that much?