Yeah, I owned an early 80s Chevy that had paint failure in less than 4 years, finally after about 7- 8 years we sold it and about a year later the class action suit against them was settled where they would repaint the car for you or give you something like $250. Far better to take a repaint, if it would be any good. $250 was rather insulting really.
That was the first and last Chevy I ever owned. They treated us awful on complaints about the paint failure and more or less said you get what you pay for as it was not one of their highest priced cars.
My wife's family worked in the auto industry for GM, that did nothing for bringing us back when we bought another car. I won't buy their products.
David
Roger that: the single worst car I ever owned was a 1972, brand-new, built-to-order for me by GM, El Camino. In one year, 37,000 miles later, the paint was falling off in hand-sized chunks everywhere, the engine had been out 3 times for new rear seals (402 CID), the tranny shifter had to have the reverse lockout completely removed because it rusted itself out (no reverse and could not take the keys out of the ignition, then), the posi-trac differential had lost the clutches entirely, and every single time it went into the shop I had to 're-fix' it myself, because they could never align the power steering pump, ever, and this would throw all the belts off as soon as it reached 3000 RPM. Three times, they did this. It took 20 minutes to change the first 6 sparkplugs, and the balance of 8 hours to get the last two. It never got over 8 MPG, even on the hiway. The 'cowl inductor' worked for just 8000 miles, then never worked again, and no parts could be found for it - and it wasn't even 1 year old!
I've never touched another GM since I sold it to the first poor fellow who came to my door with $1500 in his hand (I only took $1300 of that, felt bad for him): I paid over $4400 for it, in 1972 monies, too. I actually only drove it for 11 months, parked it the last two because the differential slipped so badly that it squiggled all over the road when wet outside. What a piece of s...
