FINALLY have my Volt back!

[BryCola]

I can't believe my Volt was in the shop for a week and a half for a freakin SUN VISOR! Apparently there was a short in the wiring in the visor that blew a fuse and it took some detective work to figure out the visor was the problem. They replaced it, and it's been working great ever since. The part that sucked was that I only had the car a few days before it went in the shop. So for a week and a half, I was driving a gas-guzzling loaner. I wasn't happy, but everyone at the dealer and the Volt Advisor were very nice and appologetic. So I'm happy now!

[tboult]

Absence make the heart grow fonder. Last week I had to drive a rental for 4 days. Makes one appreciate the volt all the more.
Glad you have your Volt safe at home.

[Driverguy01]

Great, happy for you. There is a price to pay when you buy a new technology and being betaa testers some fine tuning is always needed and stocking of problem prone parts takes a little time i guess, but what took so long? Thefinding the faulty part or waiting for the part to arrive? Could have replaced or simply disconect the visor until the part arrived, no? It all depends when the faulty part was found.

[pauldon]

I can't believe my Volt was in the shop for a week and a half for a freakin SUN VISOR! Apparently there was a short in the wiring in the visor that blew a fuse and it took some detective work to figure out the visor was the problem.

Thousands of hours of engineering time. Thousands of miles of road test. Untold lines of code and time optimizing the software. Late nights in the wind tunnel. a $40,000 piece of excelent American innovation

And the sun visor takes you out.

Go figure.

[BryCola]

Great, happy for you. There is a price to pay when you buy a new technology and being betaa testers some fine tuning is always needed and stocking of problem prone parts takes a little time i guess, but what took so long? Thefinding the faulty part or waiting for the part to arrive? Could have replaced or simply disconect the visor until the part arrived, no? It all depends when the faulty part was found.

I think it was a combination of taking a while to figure out it was the visor, then it took a while for it to come in.

[ewiggins]

That does seem awfully crazy. I have traced electrical problems in a car before and it can be difficult. When my friend's car would hit a bump, a fuse would blow. Turned out one of the wires to a running light had a nick in the wire. When he hit a bump the wire would sometimes hit the bumper, short out the circuit and blow the fuse. Took a while to figure out since the short only happened when he hit a bump.

I wonder if there will be any dealers that will indirectly sabatoge the Volt because the dealer is not a fan of EVs or some other crazy reason.

[wainair]

That's good news! Glad to hear that it was just a short in a visor and not something deeper in a system somewhere.

[wainair]

I wonder if there will be any dealers that will indirectly sabatoge the Volt because the dealer is not a fan of EVs or some other crazy reason.

I would doubt that but then again you never know, people do weird things. When I got my MINI I remember reading stories of some of the early production BMW MINIs had a mysterious rattle that they couldn't figure out. It turned out that there was an assembly line worker that was mad that BMW(Germans) now owned the iconic English MINI. So to prove that the Germans couldn't engineer a better car than the English he added a loose bolt inside every A-arm assembly he welded together, sealling the bolt inside the A-arm! Eventually they found the bolts and traced the "problem" back to this one idiot and fired him! It just blew me away though that a person would do such a moronic thing. A company comes invests in your company and saves your job and you return favour by sabotaging the product! Complete Idiot. But I doubt that happened here.

[WopOnTour]

Hmm
That was poor service you received. There would have been absolutely no reason for them to keep your car, once it was diagnosed to be the sun visor. All they would have needed to do was disconnect it and call you when the new visor arrived.
Rediculous.

What fuse is listed blown on your copy of the work order?

WopOnTour

[Sheffield]

While it is nice to have the complimentary rental when the Volt is in the shop, the contrast between a Volt and a stripped down Malibu is jarring. It reinforces all those prejudices that made it so very scary to think about buying a car from Chevrolet. Too bad there are no loaner Volts yet to use instead.