Prior to my Oil change my CTS started showing obnoxiously loud and annoying front seat squeaks and a slight rattle in the back of the headliner.
My b.f. said no big deal the slight rattle in the headliner may have been from the moon roof harness coming undone he thought he remembered a bulletin put out about it and the seat squeaks probably just needed some lube and to tell the service adviser when I went in for my oil change.
I mentioned it to the service adviser they said they would take care of it and gave me some ATS loaners to play with since I was window shopping ATS's.
I got my usual daily reports on the progress, Front Driver side seat just needed some lube, Passenger seat needs a new frame.
The Moon roof frame cracked the tech replaced it and I guess damaged the motor in the process so they had to order and replace that to.
No problem to me as long as everything is fixed.
I go back drop off the ATS turbo and they pull my car up to the front door since it was after the service department was closed for the day.
I go to get in my car and there is a couple inch square patch of scratches on my driver side door and I look at the moon roof and the front of it is sticking up about an 1/8 to 3/16 of an inch higher than the roof of the car.
And the rear of moon roof is sitting about a 1/4 of an inch below the roof of the car at the center.
Having washed my car about 100 times I knew for a fact that it used to sit perfectly flush with the entire roof of the car.
So I drive my CTS over to the other CTS's on the lot to compare how the moon roof's looked on those.
All of the brand new ones were flush just like mine used to be and a few of the used ones had some slight sag or sat a tiny bit below the roof of the car.
No where near as bad as mine.
So I figure I will just let my b.f. inspect it and see what he has to say when he see's it when I get home.
I get on the Jersey Turnpike and get up to speed and all I can hear is the loudest wind noise coming from the back of the car.
Made sure all of the windows were up, moon roof was closed.
Then I pulled off at the first rest stop to make sure all of the doors were closed and they were.
I get home it is almost dark my b.f. takes a look at it and instantly says that the moon roof isn't properly aligned or adjusted to the proper GM spec's and that since it isn't properly aligned it is causing wind turbulence on the roof of the car and that is what I am hearing.
He then tells me it is way off and that the front of the moon roof is to never be above the roof of the car or more than a 1/16 below.
And that the rear is supposed to be either flush or about 1/16 above.
While looking at the inside of the car he tells me the tech scuffed the material on the headliner and put runs in it at the back of the car along with leaving greasy finger prints in a few places.
Without getting to much more in depth about this and that I am still to pissed off about my car to call and complain about it just yet.
My b.f. used to be a GM tech and is pissed off about it he was going to readjust and align the moon roof but said F it because that is why he made me buy a newer car with warranty so that he doesn't have to keep doing this type of stuff.
Like my last GM Pontiac G5GT that went through 3-4 dealers for warranty repairs due to techs not properly fixing or diagnosing things it looks like like Deja vu all over again. :banghead:
My passenger side seat frame is on back order so I have to go back again once I calm down a little I will come up with a game plan in the mean time I have a couple days of rain expected so maybe the dam moon roof with leak and give me a better argument for getting the headline replaced.
Maybe I expect to much and that when I drop off a car to have warranty work done I should get it back in the same condition that I brought it in as and some Half ass tech's shouldn't be beating the shit out of my car while working on it.
My b.f. said no big deal the slight rattle in the headliner may have been from the moon roof harness coming undone he thought he remembered a bulletin put out about it and the seat squeaks probably just needed some lube and to tell the service adviser when I went in for my oil change.
I mentioned it to the service adviser they said they would take care of it and gave me some ATS loaners to play with since I was window shopping ATS's.
I got my usual daily reports on the progress, Front Driver side seat just needed some lube, Passenger seat needs a new frame.
The Moon roof frame cracked the tech replaced it and I guess damaged the motor in the process so they had to order and replace that to.
No problem to me as long as everything is fixed.
I go back drop off the ATS turbo and they pull my car up to the front door since it was after the service department was closed for the day.
I go to get in my car and there is a couple inch square patch of scratches on my driver side door and I look at the moon roof and the front of it is sticking up about an 1/8 to 3/16 of an inch higher than the roof of the car.
And the rear of moon roof is sitting about a 1/4 of an inch below the roof of the car at the center.
Having washed my car about 100 times I knew for a fact that it used to sit perfectly flush with the entire roof of the car.
So I drive my CTS over to the other CTS's on the lot to compare how the moon roof's looked on those.
All of the brand new ones were flush just like mine used to be and a few of the used ones had some slight sag or sat a tiny bit below the roof of the car.
No where near as bad as mine.
So I figure I will just let my b.f. inspect it and see what he has to say when he see's it when I get home.
I get on the Jersey Turnpike and get up to speed and all I can hear is the loudest wind noise coming from the back of the car.
Made sure all of the windows were up, moon roof was closed.
Then I pulled off at the first rest stop to make sure all of the doors were closed and they were.
I get home it is almost dark my b.f. takes a look at it and instantly says that the moon roof isn't properly aligned or adjusted to the proper GM spec's and that since it isn't properly aligned it is causing wind turbulence on the roof of the car and that is what I am hearing.
He then tells me it is way off and that the front of the moon roof is to never be above the roof of the car or more than a 1/16 below.
And that the rear is supposed to be either flush or about 1/16 above.
While looking at the inside of the car he tells me the tech scuffed the material on the headliner and put runs in it at the back of the car along with leaving greasy finger prints in a few places.
Without getting to much more in depth about this and that I am still to pissed off about my car to call and complain about it just yet.
My b.f. used to be a GM tech and is pissed off about it he was going to readjust and align the moon roof but said F it because that is why he made me buy a newer car with warranty so that he doesn't have to keep doing this type of stuff.
Like my last GM Pontiac G5GT that went through 3-4 dealers for warranty repairs due to techs not properly fixing or diagnosing things it looks like like Deja vu all over again. :banghead:
My passenger side seat frame is on back order so I have to go back again once I calm down a little I will come up with a game plan in the mean time I have a couple days of rain expected so maybe the dam moon roof with leak and give me a better argument for getting the headline replaced.
Maybe I expect to much and that when I drop off a car to have warranty work done I should get it back in the same condition that I brought it in as and some Half ass tech's shouldn't be beating the shit out of my car while working on it.