Years to avoid Transmission issues (1 Viewer)

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For a long time, many over at the Cadillac forum I'm on used to use that "people only come here to complain" theory to excuse the alarmingly high number of headbolt failures on the Northstar cars. Round about the same time that a small cottage industry sprang up to support nothing other than N* engine rebuilds, the entire forum just began to quietly accept that it was just the nature of that engine and poor engineering that results in that problem. The forum was only a sounding board for what was already going on out in the rest of the civilized world. That wasn't even scientific, at the very least this info was very thoroughly thought out and put together.

While it is true that people DO have their first introduction to many car forums the first time they experience a problem, at some point a trend becomes a trend and you can't just excuse it away easily.
 
Any of you have a trans fail?

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Mine always feels like its about to fall out. 1-2 shift is frequently harsh at real low speeds. Not "Lexus-like" at all. Hasn't grenaded... yet.
 
It's still only 4%!!! That means 96% of them never have an issue... to me that's still pretty good. Heck, look at Dodge Cummins with an auto. That probably has a 75% failure rate!!!

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It's still only 4%!!! That means 96% of them never have an issue... to me that's still pretty good. Heck, look at Dodge Cummins with an auto. That probably has a 75% failure rate!!!

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Cold-hard facts are not needed for an e-pandemic. Just a few e-prophets prophesying doomsday is near.
 
It's still only 4%!!!

I am not going to explain to you how math works, but if that ~405 qty changes +/- 100 or even 20, the failure rate is no longer 4%.

Regardless, it's the best data available to date and anyone looking at it should put some kind of fudge factor to it.
 
You don't have to explain anything. I really don't care what the exact numbers are. I got 4% from this thread. The fact of the matter is you probably won't have an issue.

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