<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Ipedog:
F5 - Is GM looking at these responses? What are the chances of most of these complaints being corrected in the coming model year? Any chance of a 2006.5 model with these corrections in it?
Sorry to throw all these questions at you, but you seem to have a unique position of seeing things as they happen and possibly influencing things (maybe?
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Yes, GM is looking at some of the information on this site and other GM sites. But let's face the facts.
If anyone took the time to perform a test drive, they would have discovered:
Window switches are difficult for some to access.
Roof support pillars are thick. Then again, when this vehicle rolls, to prevent the weight of the heavy frame/powertrain, etc., from smashing in the roof, the pillars have to be beefy.
No rear air
Side windows are small but that is Hummer
No sissy handle
Clock in the radio
E-brake handle is on the floor
Rear lights are all red
The fake exterior ornamentation
Fuel door doesn't lock
Seat switches are hard for some to reach
Spare tire on the back
Rear gate is too heavy
Etc.
All these are noticeable on a test drive. As JV1 stated, if the windows were bigger, with narrower pillars, and the spare tire under the rear, you would have an Explorer.
As for the trans slipping out of park, this is not normal. This is an FMVSS/CVMSS, and if this was a noted problem, there would be a recall. Mine, I verified today, will not pop out of park, when I tried to pull with great force. It is either out of adjustment, or it was not all the way in park. I suggest this problem be fixed.
There will be very minimal changes in '07 vehicles.
I can give a list of complaints on any car I have ever driven. These are things I didn't like, but either still purchased the vehicle, or it was issued to me and I had no choice.
You can go view the Corvette forum, I'm sure there is one or two discussions on items people hate in their C6 Vettes. There were certainly enough in the C5 area of the forum.
The only real complaint I have in regard to the Hummer is the brake pedal, and I knew it when I purchased.
I guess my ideal H3 would have:
Head up display with Nav information,
Steering wheel switches,
Paddle shifting 6-speed auto trans,
Body inflation system
Tire inflation system
LS7 505 hp engine with 475 lbs of torque,
Remote rear opening door
Sunroof from front to back
Voice controlled window, seat and door switches, as well as voice controlled off-road nav and radio,
and let's not forget the passenger ejection seat.
Just don't want to pay 100K for the vehicle.