Car maintenance can be a pain, and its costs can add up. And with gas prices creeping up to be as costly as the car loan itself these days, it’s good to know that General Motors is offering free scheduled maintenance for most 2014 Chevrolet, Buick and GMC vehicles.
The new maintenance program includes certain scheduled services for two years or 24,000 miles, whichever occurs first. The services include oil and filter changes, four-wheel tire rotation, and a 27-point vehicle inspection based on what’s called for in the maintenance schedule of the vehicle’s owner’s manual and oil life monitoring system.
The move echoes the program that began with Cadillac for 2011 model year vehicles thanks to the Cadillac Premium Care Maintenance Program, which covers scheduled maintenance services including oil changes, tire rotation, most air filter replacements and an inspection for four years or 50,000 miles, whichever comes first.
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Read the article “GM Launches New Maintenance Program For 2014 Models”. Will this apply for the 2014 Corvette Stingray
I honestly think this will become the new standard of the car buying process. Pretty soon a majority (if not all) car manufacturers will offer something along the lines of free maintenance for a certain amount of time/mileage.
These sorts of offers don’t impress me. Now if it was for 100,000 miles or 7 years then that would be different. Two or three oil changes and a tire rotation are a negligible cost/savings. The free maintenance that I got with my previous car was designed to expire just BEFORE the third oil change.
I have free oil changes for the life of my current car — a gimmick with the original sale to get me coming back to the dealership for maintenance, where they can pressure me into more costly purchases, or worse…. There is the risk that something is happening to the car while they have exclusive access and I’m in the waiting room. I will probably take it a few times to the dealership and then go to someone I trust.
GM Dealerships need to establish trust with the consumers something in my experience recently is seriously lacking… I personally wish I had access to a corporate owned GM service center rather than some of the sleazy privately ran dealerships I have encountered. To Verano hatches point I think its easier to find a good shop where you trust the work then to trust a dealership. I recently hammered a chevy dealership in a survey for the horrible experience I had… I want to be loyal to GM brands but with bad experiences at dealerships and plenty of options I may find my self sitting in a Ford product.
yabadabadoo is right. If GM wants a better run of things, other than product, it has to start with better dealers and dealership experiences. This free and discounted service thing is sort of a gimmick to keep you on the hook because they and they’re reputation at the sales aspect of the thing mostly sucks.
I don’t think this is right… at least in the premium brands like Buick and GMC. What it shpuld have done is 2years on the Chevrolet and 3 years 36000 on the premium brands then 4 years 50000 for Cadillac. You can’t really let the Buick and GMC customers to make them feel like what’s the difference gonna be where im going to buy a Buick or GMC and I’m paying more than buying a Chevy but my maintenance plan is the exact same thing as the Chevy
Rather a good marketing idea. Basic servicing will catch little problems before they run up and hit the consumer hard. As well, the efficiencies of a fully scheduled shop will kick in, and everyone is the winner. This will force all the GM dealers to the same level of competence, and improve the brand.
Keep your GM vehicle all GM.