I have no heat in 2006 Pontiac Torrent!!!!?

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My cousin has a torrent and she went and washed her car today and when she turned it back on it is only blowing cold air. It was working fine before but nothing.
what could it be????????
 
maybe a leaky heater core. idk if the car wash had too much to do with it though. maybe water got in.
 
maybe a leaky heater core. idk if the car wash had too much to do with it though. maybe water got in.
 
probably a co-incidence about washing the car - more likely to be airlock in the heater hose.
 
GM

This article is being written from recent experience I had with a GM vehicle as well as some research into this issue to learn just how far reaching it is.

I would like to bring to your attention a problem that needs attention regarding a on going issue with GM and hundreds of it’s customers that own some GM products. This issue has been ignored/sidestepped by GM since 2006 and continues today as this article is being published.

The problem is the heater doors in these vehicles is a faulty design that WILL break not may break but will. This is a safety issue at this time of the year if someone is away from home and it breaks they have no way to defrost there windshield which can lead to accidents.

The problem is the actuating motor over extending the actuating arm of the heater door that causes stress in the plastic the result is failure of the heater door (breakage) (heater/AC exchange door). This is a design flaw not a wear and tear issue GM knows about it and has ignored it and they even have the gull to try and get the consumer to assume part of the responsibility for it.

If one contacts GM PR offices on this issue the first thing they are told is “You could have purchased a EXTRA warrantee to cover such things”. A warrantee to cover a badly designed component that’s absurd. If you persist in this they then will have you take the vehicle to the dealer to verify the issue then try to make a deal to split the repair cost that can be from $500.00 to $1000.00 labor for a $30.00 plastic part that was designed by GM this also is ridiculous. They try to compare it to balls joint and tie rods breaking which is an insult to ones intelligence the two do not compare what so ever.
Ball joint and other parts fail because of wear and tear that is an expected issue at some point in the life of the automobile. The heater problem is a design issue even GM can not predict when it will fail it could break the very first time it is used or it may go on for a couple years before failure it isn’t a matter of if or it could possibly fail but when will it fail. Even after the broken piece is repaired the issue of when is still there it can break again at any point in time then you will be faced with the same cost again. Since the consumer has no hand in designing this component GM bares all responsibility for it. You will be also told that this is a “common problem issue that is why there has not been a recall”. A common problem issue that’s to say the least and they see no need to recall and fix the problem.

The person I spoke with at GM tried to assure me that once GM fixes this issue it would not reinstall the same type of parts the problem would no longer exists. When I asked him Has Gm started to address this yet since it is ongoing since at least 2006 he told me no they have no plans to that he knows of.

There are hundreds of owners that have or had this exact issue. You can see complaints filed with National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) web sight as well as people on forms all over the net.

The only resolution to this is a forced recall or a mass boycott of all GM products that uses this faulty component in there product line, since GM will not do what is right and step up to fix this problem .
They need to stop the continued practice of trying to get the consumer to bare some responsibility and cost to repair the issue, since they created it and knowingly installed a badly designed component in there products in the first place.

All of this just confirms the talk of GM quality taking a nose drive for the past couple years. It seems the talk on the net is true GM has gone down hill fast.

I was a GM customer most of my life but now I say lets drop GM and Support Ford.
 
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