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Originally Posted by travislambert
I got this in my email yesterday:
I'm feel confident that the Camaro engineers have nothing to do with this decision. I've tried calling, and I've sent two emails pleading for someone to offer an explanation. The call went to a voice mailbox that's full, and the emails have not been answered (and probably never will be). I'll let you guys know if I hear anything.
GM knows that this is a real problem. My guess is they have chosen not to fix the issue and communication was cut by GM's legal department to ensure their engineers wouldn't say anything that would make them liable in the event the issue results in someone getting hurt or killed.
If any of you guys have a good relationship with your dealer, I'd encourage you to see if they will reach out to GM on your behalf. It's really easy to duplicate the issue if you have somewhere with some really small rocks / pea gravel laying on the road surface. Place the rear wheels on the gravel and try to take off really slow and easy.
Here's the document I posted on July 1st. This may be helpful in explaining the problem to your dealer.
Attachment 906031
If you don't get anywhere with your dealer, there are a couple other options:
This topic should certainly be a prime candidate for this month's Ask Al. |
That’s disappointing. I had hopes that Camaro engineers were truly Engaged and had enough authority to improve their design, but am not surprised big business and profits won out in the end. Thanks Travis for all your effort trying to correct this issue. I filed a complaint on the NHTSA website and hopefully if we can get everyone else to do that and reference the safety risk it will bring some attention to it but I have zero confidence in any of my local dealers finding the issue, let alone being able to correct it. As far as the dealer is concerned it is working correctly according to how GM set the car up. Looks like we’ll have to go the aftermarket tuning route to hopefully correct the issue.
Side Note: If anyone has had success in tuning out the torque management please try and list/describe what was done so those of us that are also wanting to fix it will know how or what to explain to our tuners to make sure they are on the right path.