Well i've posted a few threads over the past couple of months about the troubles I've been having with my truck. very long story short....i bought it back in dec. took it in after 3 days for oil leak, they "fix" it and give it back a couple days later. i pick it up, drive to gym, and park...starts dripping oil. take it back to stealership tell them it's still leaking. they keep it another day and tell me it was residual oil left from original leak and it's fine. i take it home and get under the truck and clean it off and take pics to document. 3 days later i go outside and there is a puddle of coolant under the truck. so i take it back in again and some sleeve on the <ACRONYM title="Exhaust Gas Recirculation">EGR</ACRONYM> valve was not put back on so they take a couple of days to fix that. I pick the truck up and take it home. drive it for a week and look under the truck....low and behold there is the oil leak. by this time i'm pretty pissed so i take it back AGAIN. this time the trace the leak bad to the f'ing bedplate which means they had to lift my cab and take out and dissassemble my ENTIRE freaking engine. this takes 10 days. finally i pick it up about a week or so ago. of course now i'm paranoid that they might not have put the truck back together right or that it will never drive the same. i even took the tech a bunch of beer to kind of make sure he'd take a little extra care for me. well yesterday, the wifey, myself and some friends of ours pile in to go to the rodeo and as i'm turning onto a feeder road to the highway, i press the diesel pedal and the truck stutters/stumbles and shoots blue smoke out the tailpipe and from under the hood. i can't go past idle so i limp it into a parking lot. lift the hood to look and when i hit the pedal, it makes a horrible noise (almost like a knock) and from inside the cab it almost sounds like an electrical circuit frying or something. no boost either. there is also a puff of blue smoke that shoots out the drivers side bank of the engine. call the GM at the dealership and tell him my story. they send a flatbed and he asks me if there is a preference on color for a new truck. he's going to auction and is currently looking for a replacement for me.

after all this, if it turns out to be a minor fix, would you take the truck back even after it's been in bout 6 times and the engine completely out and taken apart? or would you take the trade from the GM? sounds like kind of a no brainer but i really like the one i have (aesthetically that is.)

edit : truck is not brand new...just new to me (05) so i'll be getting a similar one in trade

 

I would get another one. they make new ones everyday. you have already made your mind up and no matter how good it looks you wont ever be happy.

 

I personally think you should put the dealer up for auction and get a new dealership with competent diesel techs. This last fiasco could possibly be a CAC boot which once again would reflect on shoddy repair work. This is only a summation on my part sine I am a 1,000 miles away. Good luck and I would find out what the problem is before making any hasty decisions.

 

would a CAC boot cause it to stutter and puff blue smoke from engine bay and tailpipe? i didn't see any loose uppipes or intercooler boots. plus it was making some really wierd noises. who knows. if this was the 2nd or even 3rd time i'd be somewhat ok with it. but this is the 6th and now the engine has been taken completely out and dismantled. i just don't trust it anymore. it to the point where i don't care how minor the fix is...it's still the 6th time.