I have had it in to the dealer several times, and here is progression.
1.) At this time the truck if it sat overnight or for a coupel hours when I went to start it up, it would misfire and feel like it was going to stall out. The dealer thought it was bad injectors so they changed two fuel injectors and also told me I should have some sort of fuel injection cleaning process completed as the fuel rail was dirty and they blamed me of either putting bad gas in or that the previous owner (a farmer and dirt roads was to blame). I never did have the fuel injector cleaned or fuel rail clean as I just bought the truck and did not feel I should pay.
2.) The fuel injector replacement did not help anything. So I then took it to a different GM dealer, who confirmed the rough idle after it had sat overnight and also they plotted some sort of graph confirming it was not running correctly. They root caused it to a bad O2 sensor which they replaced.
3.) This seem to help a bit, but not 100%. I went on vacation with the truck and got a code (did not write it down fortunately) saying that the engine was running to lean. When I got back from vacation I took it to the dealer and they said they forgot to hook something up related to the sensor or something else.
4.) It seems when the re-hooked something up the problem of misfiring got worse on startup. So I took it back to the dealer. They told me the only thing they can think of is to replace all 8 of the spark plugs, which I did and paid for. I also asked are you sure this will fix it, of course they said it should.
5.) The spark plugs I changed about a week ago and the truck is still misfiring and running rough, in fact the engine seems to be running worse with the new spark plugs. When I startup the engine it misfires and shakes and I can see the RPM meter fluttering.
6.) I called the dealer to set-up an appointment for them to look at it as something is not right. They told me they are not sure what is going on. They said had no codes when I took it in last time, the only thing they said it might have something to do with carbon build up and I should have some sort of vacuum cleaning system done on it.
So I am not sure what to do right now.I really want to take this truck back and throw the keys at them. Have had to take several days off from work and the headache alone.
Hoping someone can help me out. Is there something else they should be checking and proving to me they did actually check it.
Thanks for the help.
p.S. It is still under powertrain warranty and I bought the extended GM warranty as well.
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Tuesday, August 20th, 2013 AT 9:33 AM