Feb 12
OnStar has announced that its Vehicle Diagnostics service, which automatically reports the status of various diagnostic checks on a car’s engine, transmission, airbags, and anti-lock brakes, has found that Chevy cars are pretty darn reliable.
To be specific, OnStar announced that “99.3 percent of the 1.8 million Chevy vehicle owners” enrolled in the program “reported no health issues with key components of their engine or transmission systems” during the single month of January 2010.
In other words, OnStar, a wholly-owned subsidiary of GM, has found that Chevy cars, which are built by GM, are really good. Nothing like unbiased quality studies, huh?
The system also found, perhaps more usefully, that 11.3 percent were due for an oil change, 35.8 percent had at least one tire outside of the recommended range for tire pressure, and 3.7 percent were due for a first tire rotation. I’m actually a big fan of OnStar; it’s a useful service in numerous ways. But come on: what kind of fools do you take us all for?
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