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had a bad day, real bad with my 14 silverado 1500 crew lt

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asilverblazer Senior Enthusiast

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I don't think it's necessary for us to judge his decisions to keep driving. Sometimes you have to do what you got to do.

 

Meanwhile concerning your original question. I think a leak that prominent should be easy to diagnose, repair and then evaluate if further damage has resulted.

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Georgia1911 Enthusiast

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As others have stated you should have immediately stopped and had it towed. Since the dealer sold you the truck with the lift and whatever else it has, I think they will cover you.

 

I've worked at dealers before and I've seen warranty cover some amazing things. When they say kindness goes a long ways... It really does. Make sure you word your 'story' correctly and they don't need to know every single detail. Be courteous and respectful and I'm sure they will take care of you.

 

I have no argument with a company taking care of legitimate warranty claims, but all costs of doing business are eventually paid by customers, so even if a dealer is overly generous with GM's money, it's really our money, in the form of higher prices, they are giving away.

 

I don't think it's necessary for us to judge his decisions to keep driving. Sometimes you have to do what you got to do.

 

Meanwhile concerning your original question. I think a leak that prominent should be easy to diagnose, repair and then evaluate if further damage has resulted.

 

I take your point about judging others, but when you post such a tale on a forum, what else can you expect? There might be extenuating circumstances that would justify driving on, but I didn't see any mentioned in the OP.

LaserBlueZ71 Enthusiast

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Keep in mind with modern vehicles, you can't tell a lie. You could tell the dealer "oh, it just started leaking yesterday"

 

They will dig into the computer and get the whole story. They will see exactly when the idiot lights came on, for how long, and what the vehicle information was at that time, such as throttle input percentage, outside air temp, all that. They will know your bullshitting.

Jimmy W Enthusiast

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Might need to reseat the rings,Start it up and hold gas peddle to floor for 5 minutes and you should be good!

arkenzo Enthusiast

arkenzo

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Did you check your oil filter for leaks? There have been a lot of reports of bad AC Delco filters. One of my coworkers had oil pushing past the crimp on the cannister.

 

http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/topic/175464-engine-oil-leak-from-oil-filter/

dealer screwed up on my oil change and had an oil leak. something about the rubber gasket coming off.

redwngr Senior Enthusiast

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Check engine light came on cause oil pressure dropped due to it being low which is why I added oil so I could keep going once I did that it went away. Don't think I screwed myself out of anything though. Should of I stopped? Yes probably but I wasn't far from home and I made it. I will get it to dealer and have it fixed under warranty.

 

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You may have voided the warranty.

 

Hopefully not, and hopefully it'll turn out to be something as simple as others suggested.

muddkatt Senior Enthusiast

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Might need to reseat the rings,Start it up and hold gas peddle to floor for 5 minutes and you should be good!

 

 

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ic3man5 Enthusiast

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I don't know why so many people are bashing him, technically he didn't do anything wrong to void the warranty.

 

Check engine light came on, he stopped and checked the engine to the best of his knowledge. Not his fault its just a light and doesn't actually tell him whats going on. He kept adding oil to make it home (I wouldn't have done this but can't see this voiding warranty). Truck actually told him to turn the truck off and he did. He followed everything the truck told him to do.

 

In hindsight a lot of people would probably make better decisions, if given the chance again.

Tiger_993 Enthusiast

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Might need to reseat the rings,Start it up and hold gas peddle to floor for 5 minutes and you should be good!

 

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frenchsquared Enthusiast

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Not everyone is a mechanic. Let him be.

It not his fault the truck lost that much oil.

GM needs to fix it.

hurricanoday Enthusiast

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Not everyone is a mechanic. Let him be.

It not his fault the truck lost that much oil.

GM needs to fix it.

that is the point gm needs to fix it but he did try to "fix it" by adding oil and continuing to drive when he knew it wasn't right. Not bashing just stating the facts, esp when warranty and roadside assistance comes into play. If something really is wrong you don't think gm is going to investigate and could possibly see some negligence on the driver? My point is if my truck was messing up I would do everything correctly to make sure it got fixed and from the op it didn't seem like that was happening. I haven't checked my oil once in my truck but if there was any smoke, drips anything it would be at the dealer not wait a year later while pulling my trailer for shit to hit the fan.

 

Back to the op, my advice is take your truck to the dealer and def don't give such a detailed description of the events. Hopefully it is nothing like others have said. It isn't your fault your truck broke but it is your fault for continuing to drive a truck that you knew had a problem (and I just don't mean on the day in question) and not having it looked it.

doozer78 Enthusiast

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Well it got towed into dealer this morning gm warranty covered the tow now it's just a wait and see. Hopefully I won't get real bad news. Fingers crossed

 

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