Many dealerships do not know about the recall yet. Some are aware.
The letters are being sent out to current owners, and even if its used, and your the 20th person to won it, you will still get a letter, cause they will find you by your VIN thats entered when you registered your car for your tags.
The letters are NOT the recall, they are making you aware of the recall.
The official recall letters will come out later once, there is enough parts sent out to all the dealerships to correct this "problem". They do not have enough parts to cover all the cars effected.
Once you get your official letter, give your favorite local GM dealership a call, and make an appointment.
The recall will include a new front valve cover gasket, new bolt grommets, and a different plug wire bracket/holder.
GM believes that the problem is only with the supercharged models, because they run hotter.
GM believes that the fires are being caused by built up leaky oil coming from the front valve cover. The oil seeps down, and gets on the front exhaust manifold heat shield, and heats up to the point where it ignites, and then melts or ignites the front plastic plug wire holder and then spreads from there.
This is what they believe...but I, myself personally am not going to participate in this for the simple fact that they could be wrong, and I am under my hood enough to know that my front valve covers are fine, and my gaskets are all new, and I don't want these stupid ass, mindless, so called, "ASE certified" mechanics here in Kansas under the hood of my car at all. :th_shakinghead1: regardless if I could be getting some free parts out of the deal...not worth the rick of having them F-something up while they are under my hood, or my cars at their shop. I just don't trust them at all.
My gaskets have all been replaced when I built my engine. All my fuel injector o-rings and feed and return line o-rings too. I personally find that the feed, or the return line o-rings are not of the best quality, and with little to no miles, not going for age or wear and tear here, they will dry rot, and crack. Get one big enough, and it will leak...you get a leak you get a fire QUICK, you get a fire and it will for sure guarantee a total destroy of any and all obvious evidence of what started it, unless you want to really pay out of pocket to have tests done to prove yourself right and GM wrong.
All I can say myself is, I am going to wait and see how many cars still go up in flames after this recall is done, and the ones that do catch fire, did indeed have the recall preformed.
I can see their escape goat being, that the dealership did not clean up the leaked out oil off the head, manifold, manifold cover or block good enough, and thats what started this fire.
:th_scratchhead:
I'm just going to sit back on this one and watch myself personally. You all can do what you want.
~F~
