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dal1980 Enthusiast

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Your lift kit is NOT a factory warranty, it's your dealer's warranty. There are NO direct OEM factory lift kits. These dealers send them out after they are received from the GM assembly plants.

Valid point, and I didnt consider that. Either way someone is offering warranty coverage that matches factory coverage post leveling kit install. This display of opinions can go on forever, Ill update when I find out more info.

 

I appreciate the input.

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Valid point, and I didnt consider that. Either way someone is offering warranty coverage that matches factory coverage post leveling kit install. This display of opinions can go on forever, Ill update when I find out more info.

 

I appreciate the input.

Which is why a 50 dollar spacer and alignment cost 450 dollars at the dealer vs less than 200 anywhere else. They need to make some extra cash to cover situations like these

 

If you want to be angry with GM over the design, go right ahead. Write a letter, make some phone calls. I guarantee they won't care and will laugh. To them it's another source of profit from replacement parts after 3yr/36k.

 

 

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Let's all change the design parameters of our vehicles and when they malfunction...........lets get the manufacturer to pay for it!!!

 

 

Ever wonder why new vehicles cost so much??!!

Corporate welfare? ha ha. people should man up and pay their own way.

 

To them it's another source of profit from replacement parts after 3yr/36k.

 

 

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planned obsolescence

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Let's all change the design parameters of our vehicles and when they malfunction...........lets get the manufacturer to pay for it!!!

 

 

Ever wonder why new vehicles cost so much??!!

 

"Ever wonder why new vehicles cost so much??!!"

 

Paying those workers who retired twenty years ago adds up.

dal1980 Enthusiast

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So I went to the dealer today and we looked at the ball joints. Turns out the tolerance is .020" of movement in the joint. Mine were RF .007 and LF .005 well within tolerance and not bad. I had a hunch the alignment shop was full of it because no matter what I did with the truck in the air at home I couldn't find any movement in that joint. The toe was out when the dealer aligned it which coincides with the strange tire wear. Alignment shop says they didn't measure the play in the joint. I find it hard to believe they could feel .007 and .005 inches of play in that joint. While I'm not a fan of dealerships, they proved their case today.

Sierra706 Senior Enthusiast

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Doing a toe adjustment is a piece of cake for any alignment tech. He was probably scared you were going to blame him for the tire wear.

 

 

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Doing a toe adjustment is a piece of cake for any alignment tech. He was probably scared you were going to blame him for the tire wear.

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No kidding, now if only the original alignment shop would of done it instead of feeding me a line about the ball joints.

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One thing I was going to mention for guys that buy used trucks at low mileage and encounter problems. When you buy a mystery truck off the used lot, CPO or otherwise, you have no idea what kind of idiotic things were done to the truck by the previous owner. Ridiculous things like stacked leveling kits and big wheel spacers/negative offset wheels will chew up ball joints, steering links, wheels bearings, and CV joints. It's pretty easy to take the truck back to stock and trade it in, damage already done.

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