[themossman]

Originally Posted by SUX2BU

If a motor has a bad lifter, oil pump or other defect it will fail if your grandma owns it and only drives it on Sundays or if you own it and mod the hell out of it. Obviously if you mod it it will put more stress on the part and it may fail quicker but it will still fail in a stock car none the less. I would say that the majority of catastrophic engine failures in these relatively low mile motors are due to defective factory parts.....

Not really sure what the point of this post is, I'm just ranting and I'm not sleepy yet.

I agree in part...but it's shameful that GM is denying claims without ANY effort to diagnose a customer issue against know issues.

Originally Posted by Moorepheus

The big concern I have seen over the past year or so on these forums, is that I only see people who have MODDED their car with a TUNE, CAM, etc having major engine failure. .

My issue was an oil pump that had a TSB out on it...had GM diagnosed it appropriately and repaired it, you wouldn't have seen a post about it. I would venture to suggest that's why you're seeing more threads about failures on modded cars than non-modded cars.