emission warranty ?? exhaust flange on converter

[Ascinder]

This is scary. Yours is the 3rd one to break in the last few months and before that I never heard of this problem.

Repent sinners, repent!! The end of the world is nigh......

[Dean68]

I spoke to an EPA person. He said something about them either taking some type of action against a manufacturer if they get at least 25 complaints about the same problem. I don’t remember exactly what he said. I think he said the action would be to make the manufacturer put out a service bulletin or something like that. I think that it is a lot easier for them to get 25 complaints when a company makes 50,000 of the same vehicle in a year compared to the number of VXs that were made.

I am curious as to how many other people had this same problem with the welds on the converter breaking. I don't really know the posting rules and wanted to know what it would take to put a survey question out here so that the counts could be easily taken. What can be done?

I am also still waiting to hear back from the general manager of the dealership. 8 days and counting.

Thanks,

Dean68
St Louis, MO

Dean68

[Dean68]

I realized I never followed up on this. I gave up on everything and it cost me just over $300 to have the weld fixed. It would have been over $1000 for a new converter. And a big F U to Isuzu and to the dealer (not St Charles Isuzu)

[LittleBeast]

I realized I never followed up on this. I gave up on everything and it cost me just over $300 to have the weld fixed. It would have been over $1000 for a new converter. And a big F U to Isuzu and to the dealer (not St Charles Isuzu)

HAHA, yeah I know what you mean the dealer here in Houston fried my Tranny and screwed me for over $2k in the process. Oh and I had the same exact muffler flange weld connection break on my driver's side and Meineke down the street charged me $150 to re-weld and fix it. Tone had this happen, MANY people on here have had the problem.

[circmand]

My TOD went bad had it fixed under warranty in CT moved to Houston and a few month later had the same problem. The dealer said it was something different. and not covered. When I got the bill I compared the part numbers and they were the same. I got Isuzu America involved and the BBB and Cosumer Protection Agency. I never got a refund but it will be years before they have a clean report from any of the organizations I complained to.

[Dean68]

I guess this is what happens when a company pulls out of the market. I hope people that have GM or Chrysler vehicles don't end up stuck like us.