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In January this year, I bought an Opel Corsa Ecoflex 1.0. It was a pre-owned car, so I couldn't get it's user manual. It was sitting at 45 000KM. After driving it for a month, it stopped but fortunately I was home so I called a mechanic to check it. He found out that injector seals were worn. I ordered them and it was fixed. I drove it for another month and 2 weeks, samething happened. I called GM but couldn't get a satisfactory response. I bought seals again, fixed it, and today when I was driving from town it stopped.
Yesterday I called GM and spoke to Katiso about an on screen message that read, "Ice possible, drive with care", Katiso told me he didn't know anything like that. Also the second onscreen message was, "Change engine oil soon." I asked him how soon is soon, and he told me, "Soon means it can be tomorrow, it can be next week or can be next year." I cut the call. It was just a waste of my airtime. I called another mechanic whi explained to me that these cars are made overseas and if temperatures drop, they will be an on screen message alerting the driver that it can snow and they must just be careful as snow is dangerous. For the second message he told me it's just a warning and when it's nearing the time it will do a count down like 100km remaining, 85km remaining, 30km remaining and so on and so on. This made perfect sense. I'm still puzzled that you keep people that you do not train them on product knowledge that a backyard mechanic could be 100% better than you people.
Im still sitting here with that problem.
And what happens before it completely stops, it would spill all the fuel. Like the first time when this happened it was on fuel tank and spilled it on the ground and this backyard mechanic as you call them, was able to even warn me not to start the car as the plugs are closed placed near the injectors and raising the chances of the vehicle combusting.
General Motors is no longer a trustworthy brand. They are ripping us off. How many times shall I buy these seals? I've been driving an Opel Corsa for more than 15 years now. My bakkie is kicking fresh and has never given me any hussles. I thought Ecoflex was more reliable and modern, but seemingly, you don't have business so you make money out of these seals. THIS IS A TOTAL RIPP OFF!
I'm driving a BMW, I never had any issues with seals and injectors, I'm driving an Audi A4, UT has never given me any issues with seals and injectors. I bought this car since I travel weekly between Pretoria and Mthatha, it's very light in fuel consumption and fast, but this has made me to hate General Motors and anything that has to do with it.
Hellopeter.com please assist. I'm torn apart. I can't be spending money after every 4weeks, no. I can't be driving in this car while not sure it's going to take me there safely. I'm a woman. This car is unreliable.
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