Oil Change
Kinda new to the cross country RVing. We are leaving May 2nd for 3 & 1/2 months on a trip to the west coast and back across Canada. It will be around 9,000 miles total. My question is about getting th...
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I had an 2009 Chevy traverse which was also the same as one on the Saturn SUVs that a friend had. His ended up needing a timing chain around 40k.
Down the road I ended up getting a recall notice for timing chain issue. I took it in expecting a chain replacement but the dealer called an hour or so later saying it was all done. I said how can that be, how did they replace the chain already. He said NO they don't replace the chain, they just adjust the ECM to an shorter oil change interval. I hadn't gone by the long interval that it was originally programmed in it so maybe my chain was ok. The core issue is that they had undersized the chain and iirc corrected it around 2011.
The heck of it was that the engine had to be pulled to replace it. Moral of the story is lower mileage oil changes my be your best bet.
Down the road I ended up getting a recall notice for timing chain issue. I took it in expecting a chain replacement but the dealer called an hour or so later saying it was all done. I said how can that be, how did they replace the chain already. He said NO they don't replace the chain, they just adjust the ECM to an shorter oil change interval. I hadn't gone by the long interval that it was originally programmed in it so maybe my chain was ok. The core issue is that they had undersized the chain and iirc corrected it around 2011.
The heck of it was that the engine had to be pulled to replace it. Moral of the story is lower mileage oil changes my be your best bet.
