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What are we gonna do with ya... digging up all these polls!!!
Poll: Should I trade in the SSR
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:agree ESPECIALLY since the creator hasn't been on here since 9/07...unless, of course, he's lurking, like some used to
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The CTS V is an awsome car. But if you decide to by one , be sure that it has the GM extended warranty.
The car has 2 weak points. One, the fluid filled motor mounts tend to fail. Two, they tend to grenade the the rear differentials, a major problem. It was slightly addressed on 05, but did not completely solve the problem. The car sufferes a lot of rear axle hop on hard accelleration. Not just on burnouts, but also sometimes just when exiting a corner under hard acceleration. They have been known to grenade sometimes just slipping in the rain. GM really came up short on the fix of this problem when they they subtituted the stock sticky gatorback tire with the Goodyear RSA. The RSA has such poor traction that it effectively reduced the axle hop problem, but at a great loss of handling and acceleration performance.(sound familiar?) They did, however, continue to offer the gaterback as a no cost option. I believe there is some federal investigation of the differential problem in the works.
That whole problem would not discourage me from buying a CTS V though any more than the problems common to the SSR kept me from buying mine.I would just be sure that it had the 6 year 100,000 mile Cadillac certified used car warranty. Avoiding attempts of all out off the line takeoffs, is what most of the present spirited owners finally arrived at to avoid the axle hop and the disintergrating rear diffs. after they went through a few. By the way, there are ssome great deals on low mileage V's. I just almost bought an 05 with 12,000 miles for 26K with full warranty.
Or you could just put some money down on the 09 CTS v which has the same LS 9 motor as in the new ZR 1:jester.
They supposedly will not have the axle hop problem.
The car has 2 weak points. One, the fluid filled motor mounts tend to fail. Two, they tend to grenade the the rear differentials, a major problem. It was slightly addressed on 05, but did not completely solve the problem. The car sufferes a lot of rear axle hop on hard accelleration. Not just on burnouts, but also sometimes just when exiting a corner under hard acceleration. They have been known to grenade sometimes just slipping in the rain. GM really came up short on the fix of this problem when they they subtituted the stock sticky gatorback tire with the Goodyear RSA. The RSA has such poor traction that it effectively reduced the axle hop problem, but at a great loss of handling and acceleration performance.(sound familiar?) They did, however, continue to offer the gaterback as a no cost option. I believe there is some federal investigation of the differential problem in the works.
That whole problem would not discourage me from buying a CTS V though any more than the problems common to the SSR kept me from buying mine.I would just be sure that it had the 6 year 100,000 mile Cadillac certified used car warranty. Avoiding attempts of all out off the line takeoffs, is what most of the present spirited owners finally arrived at to avoid the axle hop and the disintergrating rear diffs. after they went through a few. By the way, there are ssome great deals on low mileage V's. I just almost bought an 05 with 12,000 miles for 26K with full warranty.
Or you could just put some money down on the 09 CTS v which has the same LS 9 motor as in the new ZR 1:jester.
They supposedly will not have the axle hop problem.
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Get the convertible. It looks awsome. :skep
Point well taken.
Thats why I didn't get the CTS V. It would be nice to have both tho.
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Jgrden, FlashBack & texster68, did you know this thread is dated 7-19-04? Three years have gone by and s/he either did or didn’t buy that Cadillac CTS-V.
Just though you might like to know.
FlashBack, good info you posted if anybody looking for a use CTS-V.
Just though you might like to know.
FlashBack, good info you posted if anybody looking for a use CTS-V.
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No you shouldn't have:nonoI probably should not have bumped this poll
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What might have been better is if you had created a new thread with links to all those oldies. Kind of like that one to all those SSR related videos that SSR-Club.com posted.:thumbs
You're still a "rookie" high mileage moderator and got a long ways to go.:lol
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I started a link post, but realized that "bumping" was going to be more efficient. I was just bumping open threads without regard to what they were, but after bumping this one, decided not to bump them all.....
Is today bump day? :lol
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Signs of being lazy to do it the right way.
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