For decades, General Motors built some of the most respected V8 engines in the automotive industry. Today, a growing number of owners are reporting catastrophic failures in GM’s 6.2L V8 found in the Chevrolet Tahoe, Suburban, Silverado, GMC Sierra, Yukon, Cadillac Escalade, and more.
In this video, we look at recent owner reports from the last few weeks alone, including vehicles on their second, third, and even fourth replacement engine. Some failures occurred before 20,000 miles, while others happened shortly after receiving a replacement long block.
The most concerning part? New 2025 and 2026 vehicles continue to appear in failure reports, and some replacement engines are allegedly experiencing problems as well.
Is GM getting this issue under control, or is the 6.2L engine crisis still growing?
Let me know your experience in the comments. Have you owned a GM 6.2L truck or SUV? Would you buy another one?
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I don't like these connected vehicles. What's to say at 119,200 mi they don't send a message to fry your alternator so you got to get a new alternator. It's all one big scam if you ask me.
Maybe the government will bail GM out again…
They should be able to be driven hard and last 150k minimum
@1:16: In many of these situations, it's simply a case of, "More money than brains".
In your opening sentence, you could have stopped at, "GM".
In the 1980's it was the GM automatic transmissions. Virtually ALL squarebody automatics were replaced. Ah, that great GM feeling. My buddy calls them Mr Goldwrench after his cost him. It doesn't matter to the dealer how it sounds as long as it runs. My dad couldn't get them to do anything. Total GM dealer ripoff.
In the 80's GM owners ran to Honda. Most of them never came back.
Maybe selling out to china wasn't such a good idea.
GM-Grinding Motor
GM is such junk.
Nah, buying a new GM is more like kicking a vase down the road, knowing it's gonna break any time now. Meanwhile, our '83 454 still going strong.
Also, I'll take bets on everything else on the Nissan breaking around the engine.
3rd is lemon law territory in most states.
And just think, while it's camped out at the dealer waiting to be fixed, you're still making payments on it. I also wonder if anyone has pursued Lemon Law.
They won't trade as long as Timmy's Mom from soccer has one. Gotta represent
I’m sorry. There are PLENTY of resources out there that shows GM products are not good. At this point people aren’t getting screwed as that would mean you got into a situation unaware. People who finance GM products are actively asking for problems.
we need to dump all the computer crap, dump all the emissions, and go back to the 60s engines, distributers, carburetors, and space to work on them, the new engines are junk, when a engine has to have 0W20 oil you know it's junk, what that means is the tolerances are to close, and people need to understand that engines need to breathe to run, and when you put the emissions on, you restrict the engines ability to breathe,
The GM V-8s have done something I didn’t think possible. Makes my 3.6 liter Traverse look good.