All depends on your state and state laws .
LOL it is literally spelled out in the title of the warranty form. The replacement powertrain warranty is separate from the new vehicle warranty.
What I'm saying is read the fine print in your truck's warranty. GM warranties various parts of the vehicle for various amounts of time or miles. When they replace a part, it does not reset the warranty. ln some cases, when your vehicle is near the warranty ending, GM will extend the warranty on that specific part, but it will not equal the original warranty.
Ok, you're right...and yes it's in the fine print. I guess that, if the engine is replaced under the New Vehicle Warranty at 59,998 miles then you really do have about 2 miles left on the powertrain warranty. I was originally under the impression that the new vehicle "bumper to bumper" and powertrain warranty were different, but I was wrong.
As my "friends" would say: even a blind pig finds a truffle once in a while. I've never had truffles, but I guess I just found one! 😁
This truffle comes with a GM LIMITED TRUFFLE WARRANTY*
When I had an inj failure(put hole in piston) on my 2016 DMax 2.8L at 48k miles, it was not warrantied due to evidence of having been tuned. I paid for a new motor and it came with a 3 yr/100k mile warranty as long as the factory tune they reinstalled is still installed. It still baffles me that it's got a shorter time length but way longer mileage warranty than what it came with from the factory.
Pure speculation on my part, but perhaps the logic in a 3 year 100k warranty is any vehicle running up 100k in 3 years had to be doing mostly highway miles which are far less stressful on an engine. Then again, we are talking GM and perhaps they feel the average person would never hit that mileage, so why not offer the warranty? I have no basis for this, but I believe the "average" person puts around 15K per year on a vehicle, so typically the GM warranty would expire at 45k, which is still short of the warranty on a new truck. Trust me - GM has analysts who get paid well to figure out every angle.
Sometimes it's amazing the carnage that can happen to an engine, yet it still runs. A friend who worked in a shop told me they had a rough running VW come in once. Tear done found the crankshaft was broke in two. In your case, I would be hard pressed to believe a fuel pump would cause the issue, especially considering it effected only one cylinder. Injector... questionable. Given other posts on the seeming fragility of some of the D'max's wrist pins, I suppose the injector could have a contributing factor though.
Nothing new to report. Dealer says the new engine will arrive towards the end of this week. Maybe. I'm still figuring out how I feel about the whole mess, especially since this is the first GM vehicle I've owned for a couple of decades. I thought I'd give them another chance to earn my trust with the Duramax Canyon and then this happens FIVE stinking weeks after I bought it.
I don’t think you’re experiencing anything that countless of other truck buyers who have bought a turbo diesel in the past 15 years haven’t experienced. 3.0 Rams and F150’s have issues, the heavy duty trucks as well. People wonder why these new diesels don’t have the reputation that the 7.3 and 5.9’s of yore had about being bullet proof. It’s because those old engines barely made 200hp. These newer ones are running way more boost. Just a lot more being asked out of these things without a subsequent increase in displacement. So don’t feel like you made a mistake by buying GM, because no one else is doing any better.
I know that the conventional wisdom is that extended warranties are a waste of money, and that is probably still true, but from my personal experience I have purchased an extended warranty on 3 different vehicles and twice it has paid me back in spades. Once with a blown engine on a 2011 malibu, and once on my wifes 2014 town and country limited with a bunch of random electrical problems that no one can seem to fix (but keep looking at for free because of the warranty). I would never buy one on something that I can easily replace (such as a phone, toaster oven, or TV) but with todays cars and their complicated engines, electrical systems, and emissions systems I don't want to be stuck with a $5,000 repair bill on a car that I still owe $4500 on.
Those old engines definitely came from the factory with less power/liter, but I think the loss if durability has more to do with the addition of complex emissions systems, mating materials of differing compositions to save weight, and an overall greater number of moving parts. My '97 12v Cummins puts down well over 350hp and 900tq to the wheels at 42psi boost, and has been doing so for 20yrs and 320k miles. Only regular maintenance. The Dodge wrapped around it, however, started falling apart in 2005...
You're better off buying an extended warranty sooner. As a vehicles age/mileage goes up, so does the cost of extended warranties. Just like life insurance the older you get, the more expensive you become to insure.
There's also the other factor of them getting to keep your money longer, particularly if it's still in the factory warranty period.
