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Jenn1974: Have you found the bullion and how did or what was the fix on your suburban. This information will help me with my continuing 2007 burb problems. My first Suburban was a 2000, 2nd was a 2004 Z71, and the 3rd is a 2007 LTZ. My 2004 has 86,000 miles, and I have not had any problems. We still have it. The 2007 was bought in May 2006, and I’m afraid it’s the worst ever. It has used oil, a lot more than the 2000 and 2004. Oil light comes on, I change the oil! 88,000 miles and now out of warranty! The five years got me. I am affiliated with a very large automobile repair facility in Reno, Nevada, and I’ve had the car serviced regularly. That’s what you do when you work in a garage. The last few mornings I noticed a puff of smoke out the tail pipe which is not good, I am told. So I asked my mechanic what is the worst case. He tell me “rings” or valve guides, about 6-8 hours shop time plus parts. But if it’s rings, he tells me to shop for a short block crate motor from GM. The engine rebuild will be expensive. My mechanic has not mentioned (as I read in certain forum responses) that there is an oil consumption test. Does anyone have any information on the notices or bulletins that may be circulating? So I ask Chevrolet Suburban owners the question, “Is 88,000 miles all we can get from the 2007 and newer Suburbans?”

Regarding your comment about gas pedal dexterity and economy with a failing battery, I can tell you through experience that any IMA based car requires different driving styles with a good battery, failing battery (which produces a net drag) or NO battery. Just this fall, I drove a 2001 Insight with a new battery 5700 miles in 8 days of driving crossing the country, the Rockies and the Sierra Nevadas. With AC on and 85 mph highway speeds, I averaged 62. The same car averaged 72 from Wisconsin to NYC in the summer. I also drove a 2000 Insight with no battery at all 1200 miles in a day and a half (Tampa-Atlanta-NYC) at 65 mph with AC and averaged 64 mph. This same car with a new battery installed gets about 75 mpg highway. Around town the car gets 50 with no battery and 55 with, but you really have to drive it very differently (the insight has a 1 liter engine). What is the EPA? For the 2001: 48/60 For the 2000: 49/61 Similar test with a 2004 Civic hybrid (CVT) with non-LRR tires: 45 highway with battery, 42 highway without. 42 local with battery, 40 without. 35 local with battery if my wife drives it. She gets 40 highway. Other 2004 CVT Civic Hybrids I've driven with good batteries and correct tires: 60 highway, 50 local. EPA 39/43 So yes, your mileage may vary, but the battery isn't the biggest factor - driving style is.

"Mileage concerns are particularly quirky. That "your mileage may vary" phrase is only too true. I've ALWAYS met or exceeded the EPA numbers on my cars. Probably a combination of my driving style and the conditions I drive in. But with the same model cars, some people don't get close to the number and think that means a problem with the car." Obviously u do not own a HCH with a bad/weakening battery and a change of software....u see the software algorithms changed when and how the battery aids the small 1.3 engine. Without the battery functioning as it was originally the EPA "estimates" are NOT based upon the car as an original HCH Your arrogance sounds like the Honda corporation standard answer. Even you and ur exceptionable gas pedal dexterity would fail without a proper IMA battery.

Funny thing, we lived in New Jersey until 2002 and geez am I glad we left (for any number of reasons). Is the legal driving age in New Jersey still seventeen? When our (then) sixteen year old son got his license here in New Hampshire, one of the first things he did on one of our trips to visit family and friends in New Jersey was to drive over to home of several of his friends; they were all seriously jealous, doubly so because he had my car which has a manual transmission. ;) Our daughter has a strike in her favor and a strike against her before she even starts the process of learning to drive a stick. In her favor is the fact that she has a very scientific analytical mind and already understands the mechanical structures which compose the whole manual transmission drivetrain. Unfortunately for her, she had a stroke when she was born and is partially paralyzed on her left side which negatively affects left hemisphere motor control. Given that she's learned how to play piano and violin, and given that she's become dexterous enough to "vault" on horseback (standing on the bare back of a horse, arms out to the side, and using nothing but hip, trunk and leg control to keep her balance while the horse walks), I anticipate she'll master driving a stick as well; though it will probably take longer than our son took (who does qualify as "a natural").

I've heard the same thing and other than his I can't think of one I've seen in years. It's almost like seeing a Yugo on the road these days.... I just saw one about 45 minutes ago. But it was on tv, in an episode of "Dexter". It got wrecked, in one of those spectacular flips that only happens in Hollywood...