whats the difference between the ss and the ss supercharged the badges are still the same right just one has a 3800 and the other has a 3800 Supercharged right?

 

The show Hardcore Pawn on TruTv was on last night, and a guy on there had an engine fire in his Impala. He was a fireman and even said there was a recall on those cars, but he never did anything about haha.

 

crap i just bought a buick regal 3.8 2000 i might have to go get this checked good thing my dad is a machanic

 

how do i know if the issue was fixed on my car? i bought in in july of 2010

 

Go to your local GM dealer, take it to the service and tell them you'd like to check to see if your car was on the list of recalled Monte Carlo's. I took mine there back when I had it and to my surprise it hadn't been done. All they do is put a clamp on the spark plug wires. Takes them 5min at most. For an issue that is so serious doesn't take any time at all.

 

Seriously, does everyone know what has to happen to cause a fire for this recall??

1st, plug wire has to rub a hole in it
2nd, must have oil leak in that exact spot.
3rd, engine must be running, spark must jump from wire to the oil, then it must actually catch on fire.

You remove a very safe & completely covered channel that hold 3 spark plug wires in there respective place. to install a 2-wire and one 3 wire loom.

use your judgement. After I had several customers watch me change this in the service isle, they asked me to reinstall the oringal part because it looked much safer.

Get the facts before believing everything. After all it was a Government issued recall. lol

 

I do not agree with this statement at all, GM put out a recall because it was clearly a serious issue, if it's a free fix then just go get it done! It's better to be safe then sorry, it's not like your losing any money.

 

So wait my 05 is not included in this right? it said 98-03 montes, just making sure though.

 

I will say I understand your statement, I agree that 99.99999% of Recalls are a safety issue and need to handled asap.

This is MY PERSONAL OPINION... I understand what people are saying, but if have seen some of the "shadetree" crap I have seen under the hood of some of these cars... IF the car is put into factory specs, it IS SAFE..

And just because some one somewhere had this issue and someone thought EVERY 3.8K on the planet would do this, they MADE GM put this out there.

Look at this and see if you would do this to your car. =-) Not going to happen to mine. 97-2003 only.....

http://www.phila.gov/fleet/Warranty%...ll%2009047.pdf

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all.

 

wifey's is an 04 so I guess she is safe????