Well, it never seems to be a dull moment at the dealership. To be fair everyone has been extremely nice and I back at them.

I took the car in for a few warranty issues and was given a free 10,000 service for free. No complaints with that at all.

Issues:
-Brakes shuddered upon hard braking - fixed
-Pressure sensor in tire was losing radio connection - fixed
-Shifter would not engage under crisp shifting - fixed

The shifter problem was my main concern. It seems that the cable attaching the shifter to the tranny is only held there by a spring. Well, under a quick shift it would pop out. I simply would put the shifter back into neutral and then back into gear and all was well. The dealership said that it was a flaw in the design. I tend to think that it is a problem with mine because I never heard anyone else with this problem on here. They did some sort of "backyard mechanics" (their words, not mine) to see if they could get it to stay. I thought that was nice of them to put forth the effort.

I can only assume that it is fixed. I went at lunch to pick up my car and the shifter would move left and right when in gear. It would move as much as when it was not in gear! I drove all of 50' and had the service guy come out to show me. He did not understand the problem at all. But agreed to have the mechanic look at it.

1.5 hours later I get a call saying that the bushing was not tighten down and that it was all fixed. They did not hassle me at all and was happy to get it fixed. I still have to pick up the car though.

I am just wondering why the mechanic didn't fix it when he drove the car out of his bay, it was THAT noticeable.

All in all, problems fixed and no $$$ out of pocket. What more can you ask for. I actually have been very happy with the dealership that I have been dealing with. Serpentini Chevrolet of Strongsville (For all you north eastern Ohio guys)

I guess there is not really a point here but to make sure you check over your car when you get it back from the mechanic, and that there might be an issue with the shifter on the SS...

 

I just passed 10k and haven't been back to Classic Chevy yet. Do I have to?
Did a couple oil jobs myself. Rotated tires...

 

-Pressure sensor in tire was losing radio connection - fixed can you explain this 1?

 

Here's how I basically understand it, though I don't pretend to be an expert in the area:

It would be difficult to route stationary wires (or equivalent connections) to the pressurized area inside of the tire, since the pressurized region is constantly rotating. A traditional connection would require a stationary communication wire from the pressurized area to the computer, as well as additional wires supplying electrical current. Instead, the TPS uses a reflective antenna, very similar to RFID. It has no internal power source, no wired electrical current, and no communication wire. The signal it receives from the vehicle's reception unit (not sure what they've chosen to call it, but just like an RFID reader) generates electrical feedback causing the TPS's RFID to send a short-range RF signal, which is then received by the RFID reader. Since it's RF, it's susceptible to interference and blocking from anything between the antennas, such as metals, EM and RF interference. That's why TPS has so many more problems in the rear than in the front.

Probably the individual TPS was broadcasting at a reduced signal strength, so required a replacement unit transmitting at nominal signal strength. Replacing an individual TPS is pretty easy.

 

im getting my sensor done this weekend. It had issues when i first bought it in feb, and now with the cold weather coming has it's acting up again. 19k miles now. I'll have 28-34k by feb 09. /cry

 

What Nebulous1 said

 

I don't know that you have to as long as you can do the same stuff yourself which it sounds like you already are.

 

the module that gets the signal is the remote control door lock receiver.
You air pressures can drop as much as 5 psi in colder weather and the module has a set psi porgrammed into to it and if if gets too high or too low it will set a warning message and thats what you might be getting and not really having a problem with the sensor.

 

how was brake shudder fixed?

 

Actually, the dealership said that they were having a lot of problem with these and that it was broke. I was not getting a warning, I was getting that the sensor lost connection completely.

The dealership changed it out and it works great (at the same PSI).

Also, here is what is weird. others might have their cars setup the same way. My front and back tire sensors were set incorrectly. When going through the "INFO" on the dash and I see the front and rear pressures, the front ones showed the rear pressures, and vice versa.

I only know this because my front right was originally having a problem, I re-calibrated my sensors and now the right rear has the problem. I originally would have thought that the calibration fixed the front and then the rear went bad, but my father in law said that their GMC Acadia is reading them wrong as well. He got a low pressure warning (different then what I got) on the rear tire. They kept filling it but the front tire showed higher pressure. It didn't get corrected until they filled the front. I told him recalibrating was an easy fix. But this got me to thinking about mine. I wonder how many others are out there like that...