No this is a lemon! I have had my car in the shop for something every single year several times a year for something and couldn't even pass my first safety inspection without getting $1000 worth of work done to it. This year alone I've had a bad oil pressure sensor, a transmission rebuild, a broken serpentine belt, a bad pulley and now a radio that doesn't work. I have NEVER gone 6-months without having to leave my car in the shop for a repair.
My car was in the shop 3 times the first year I purchased it.

 

well...maybe yours is a lemon. sorry to hear about all the bad luck. i could understand a tranny rebuild on it but all the other stuff...

 

have you tried to contact GM or the dealer you bought it from?

 

Haven't tried to contact anyone at all yet. Do you think I would really have any luck from talking to the dealer? It was a Chevy dealer that sold me the car....not just a regular used car lot.

 

From the picture you can see everything lights up exept the screen.

 

i doubt you'd have any luck with a dealer or gm or with the lemon law. We had a brand new blazer in 98 that chunked a piston at 45K. GM said too bad...

 

i would have called a long time ago, i wouldnt say its too late either, id try the dealership first and then GM, do you have all records of repairs?

 

Ok, just fixed the problem. Found a post from Slugger088 and he had the exact same radio problem. I found the radio fuse and replaced it with one of the spare ones that came with the car. Now the radio is fine. Looking at the old fuse, I can't tell that it is broken.

As for the Lemon law goes. I've only had my repairs done at 3 different local Chevy dealerships. I would assume they could reprint all of the records of my repairs???

 

The lemon law has nothing to do with what you are experiencing. The lemon law is more that the car has a problem that CAN NOT be fixed, or something that just keeps breaking. For example if you had your transmission rebuilt 3 times in one year. That would make it more of a lemon.

This is just various parts failing around the same time. Unfortunately it's a problem, but I wouldn't call the car a lemon.

The transmission is a known problem sadly. It is too weak for the power.

Your pulley and serpentine belt make sense together. No reason a belt would break after being new unless the pulley was resisting from spinning properly and causing wear. Maybe the pulley was dirty and it was restricting the spin? Do you check your belts and fluids every 3,000 miles? You should have been able to catch the uneven wear.

Things are unfortunate and not everyone gets a trouble free car for their life. Some things just wear, it depends on where you live, how you drive, how often you clean the car, how you treat the car, etc. etc.

I hope you get all of your problems fixed as easily as the radio.

 

Hi bWill, Sorry to read that you believe you purchased a
Lemon There always seems to be one in the Bunch I wonder how the first 9K miles on your SS were driven by the previous owner ? ? ? Maybe 9K miles @ a drag strip ? ? or just a abused 06 Monte SS ? : (
A lot of damage can be done to a new car in 9K miles of abuse....You never really know when you buy used on how it was treated ? Even if the CarFax is clean....

How have your maintained your Monte S.S. ?
How did you really drive it ?
Again, I'm sorry that you are having some problems
I hope that they can be fixed.
* I did put (My) in your thread Topic, because the majority of member's with 06 Monte S.S.'s have not had the major problems that you have endured...Good Luck 4-Sure