US opens probe into 73,000 Chevrolet Volt cars over loss of power

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US opens probe into 73,000 Chevrolet Volt cars over loss of power
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Same thing happened to mine. Except 3 Chevy dealerships refused to fix it under warranty. Despite there being a service bulletin on exactly that failure. They even charged me for the diagnostics.

Every car I ever owned was a Chevy but after this I will never buy another GM product.

Fuck GM. They fought the union ridiculously on giving them decent wages, then afterwards still had enough free cash lying around to do a $10 billion stock buyback and increase dividends by 33%.

WTF? They fixed mine for free, and they showed me the "bill" and it supposedly would have cost many thousands of dollars.

I got corporate involved and they said the dealerships should fix it for free but they could not force them to. Corporate said that if I paid to have my car towed to a dealership 600 miles away they would repair it under warranty.

The estimates I received from the dealerships wanted $12000 to replace the becm. The car was valued at $15000 so that made no financial sense to repair.

The car only had 62,000 miles on it and was in perfect condition other than the becm.