The infamous lower intake gasket

[greenhornet]

Well, my car finally needs this repair done, the dealer told me since I only have 43,000 GM is going to pay $450 of the $600 to repair the lower intake gasket. He said they are paying it because of the GM goodwill program. Anyone know more about this? or receive similiar financial help on this repair?

[excitement]

new to me but ask them if they also have a goodwill program for the warped rotors!

[Brother's1999]

Since the intake gasket is under the Emissions Item Defect Warranty of 36months/50,000miles for 2000s with Northeast Emissions in Penn, you must be just outside the 36 months and be a good customer, so the dealer is getting Pontiac to pick up the 75% of the repair. Not a Pontiac program, just the dealer getting the goodwill help for you. Probably wouldn't be able to get the help if your were over both the 36 months and the 50,000 miles.

[dmurphy]

Originally posted by Brother's1999
Since the intake gasket is under the Emissions Item Defect Warranty of 36months/50,000miles for 2000s with Northeast Emissions in Penn, you must be just outside the 36 months and be a good customer, so the dealer is getting Pontiac to pick up the 75% of the repair. Not a Pontiac program, just the dealer getting the goodwill help for you. Probably wouldn't be able to get the help if your were over both the 36 months and the 50,000 miles.

The intake manifold ITSELF is covered under the California emissions warranty (which is active in CA & most of the northeast), but *NOT* the gasket. Since the manifold itself didn't fail, it's not covered. Now, if the manifold itself failed, replacing the gasket WOULD be covered under the warranty.

Talk about warped logic!

Trust me, I just went through this in NJ ...

GM offered to pick up $350 of the $700 bill to fix it...........

Still sucked.