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stadt11 Senior Enthusiast

stadt11

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FIRST...

 

Welcome to the forum, I think we need an introduction first before you can get any responses.

 

 

SECOND...

 

Did your search yield you any results?

 

 

BTW, it appears you are shouting at us, go easy on the caps :rollin:

cmerchant Enthusiast

cmerchant

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FIRST...

 

Thanks for the welcome.

 

 

SECOND...

 

Of course my search didn't yield any results, hence the post.

 

 

Sorry for the caps, ever heard of copy and paste.

stadt11 Senior Enthusiast

stadt11

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It's always good to mention that "the search didn't yield any results", that seems to be everyone's first reply if it wasn't mentioned, I just beat everyone else to it :rollin:

 

 

Get a custom tune, www.blackbearperformance.com, that should Disable the AFM.

 

Where you from Lance? I ask because there are several group-tunes going on in Minnesota, Dallas, Myrtle Beach, Nashville, & Georgia right now. Justin from Black Bear is doing these tunes and if you want to drive to one of these to wake-up-that-beast, he can also Disable your AFM.

 

Also found this - http://www.gm-trucks.com/forums/index.php?...;hl=disable+afm

 

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We're still waiting on your intro & pictures! :lol:

stadt11 Senior Enthusiast

stadt11

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D@mnit, Dan beat me by 1 minute (that's what I get for taking a Help Desk call rather than finishing my GM-Trucks post)!

Darkanion Senior Enthusiast

Darkanion

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D@mnit, Dan beat me by 1 minute (that's what I get for taking a Help Desk call rather than finishing my GM-Trucks post)!

SLACKER! You know GMT comes first!! :lol:

 

:rollin:

 

:(

stadt11 Senior Enthusiast

stadt11

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D@mnit, Dan beat me by 1 minute (that's what I get for taking a Help Desk call rather than finishing my GM-Trucks post)!

SLACKER! You know GMT comes first!! :lol:

 

:rollin:

 

:(

 

 

 

I just wish the Admins would fix the d@mn RSS feeds! :D

Z45 Senior Enthusiast

Z45

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Here is a TSB on AFM issues. My 08 has vibrations in V4 but the trans checked out per the test indicated. They are waiting for GM to find a solution but I have not heard back yet.

 

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minibike132 Senior Enthusiast

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Here is a TSB on AFM issues. My 08 has vibrations in V4 but the trans checked out per the test indicated. They are waiting for GM to find a solution but I have not heard back yet.

 

afm.jpg

afm2.jpg

 

 

How come that bulliten has "not the problem" written on it?

Z45 Senior Enthusiast

Z45

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I wrote that on there. Dealer gave me the TSB because I asked him for it. I wanted to know what they proposed to do should that be the problem. I don't let the dealer do a thing to any of my vehicles until I know exactly what they are going to do. Been down the road with my CTS and drove away from the dealer with a rental car because what they said was going to take 30 min ended parking my CTS for 3 days waiting for a new PCM because of logic lock.

minibike132 Senior Enthusiast

minibike132

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Been down the road with my CTS and drove away from the dealer with a rental car because what they said was going to take 30 min ended parking my CTS for 3 days waiting for a new PCM because of logic lock.

 

 

Shit happens, no one can forsee a logic lock. But I'm sure you are way smarter than we are :rolleyes: .

 

Can I have your vin. I have an idea about a fix but instead of looking all day for it if I have your vin I can quickly verify what I am thinking for a fix before I send it to you.

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