| Re: CadillacFAQ.com IMPORTANT thread I'm sorry to read that they are making you take the info down. I was nice to have a library to point us all in the right direction when an issue occurs. That said, I cannot blame GM or any of the other manufacturers for requesting that their copywrited, internal documents are not posted in public. Please realize that often consumers that do not even have an issue that is in a TSB come running into a dealer saying that they have an issue and demand that the offending part be replaced. This can be very costly.
By the way, DCX also has a tendency to avoid doing TSB work until it becomes a real issue. I am friends with an ex zone manager for them. I also know that Mazda is not pleased about the listing of this sort of info and may have followed this same course of action by now. So stop American bashing.
As for the future here, certainly the TSB numbers are known and the basic content of the TSB is also known. What is wrong with simply placing a list of numbers and issues in a database? It will avoid any legal issue and is simply protected first ammendment freedom of speech (press) at that point. Or at the very minimum when a poster asks a question, the response can include all of the stuff to point the dealer in the correct direction to fix the problem.
As I posted in another thread, my car is in getting a new transmission right now because of the 6th gear issue. The car clearly had an issue and the tech drove it and confirmed that he heard and felt it also. I handed him a copy of the TSB and he said that it was the first he had heard of it and the first time he had encountered it. Too bed that this time saving option with no longer be available to us.
Mark |