On 5/27/2014 12:45 PM, Mike Marlow wrote:
Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 5/26/2014 9:35 PM, pentapus wrote:


Buick never expected the car owner to do their own maintenance. That
filter is hard to get to. In fairness to Buick, they do build a good
car, why can't the rest of GM manage that?

Most Buick owners probably would not open the hood. As for them
building a good car, my last one was a POS that I ended up giving
away. I was a GM buyer for years, but GM ****ed me off enough that
I've not bought one since my '01 LeSabre and won't ever again.

The 36,000 mile warranty was up after 18 months of driving and it was
down hill after that. The list of things that fell apart is very
long.

All true but in addition to that - there is no difference between the motor
that went into the buick and the motor that went into the chevy or the
pontiac. It has nothing to do with whether buick ever intended its owners
to open the hood. Only those who have never opened any of those hoods would
say/think this.



And that would depend on what years you are talking about. Prior to the
mid 70's each GM division produced its own engines and they were all
significantly different from each other than the color that they were
painted. As I recall, Chevy had the 396 Pontiac had the 400, Chevy
later had the 454, Pontiac had the 455. All significantly different
engines.

Starting in the 70,s GM lines began sharing engines on certain vehicles.
If you will recall the fuss that was made from customers that were, for
instance, long time Oldsmobile owners, and expected to get the
Oldsmobile Rocket Engine that their previous vehicle had when they
learned that the engine in their new 88 had a Chevy engine in it.

My 75 Olds Starfire had the Buick V6 engine as did the similar Buick
SkyHawk. but the same Chevy vehicle, the Monza, came with a Chevy V8.

But you are correct with more modern vehicles the engines are mostly all
painted black and who knows who makes the engine.