Electronic Brake Control Module ....& GM

[napa68]

One must keep the cost of the repair in relation to the cost of the vehicle when new. It would not shock me if the truck new was around 60K and is around 80K these days. One must also remember you are asking a new part to perform in a 130K vehicle. Nothing is the same electrically in the truck. The more toys and trinkets on a vehicle just drives the cost of repairs.

A 12/12 warranty on a repair is pretty much standard issue today. If you were slightly beyond it, I would have no differing opinion than the OP. Better part of a year and 18K miles, that's quite a bit to ask for. I do understand the refusal to utilize a reman or used unit given the state of liability today.

I can understand the frustration for the expense. I think one is asking a lot including a loaner given we are discussing a 10 year old 130K truck purchased second hand.

[juliosz]

Hmmmmmm, checked GM parts direct and the electronic brake control module for this vehicle shows an MSRP of aprox $1800.00. GM Parts direct price is just under $1000.00. There are a couple of others for all wheel drive depending on equipment but I chose this one as its the most expensive of them all. I also found this place that rebuilds EBCMs: Link

Good luck, hope you can get at least another 100k out of it.

[SSJunkie68-69]

Paul....thanks for the link. I'm going to call them when they open up. I see they are offering a lifetime warranty on this part, just need to see what they define as a lifetime. The company has been around for over 25 years. I like how the small guy is willing to stand behind the product better than the big guy as well as offering it a price which is a fraction of what the big guy wants.

[68l30]

Some service dept's today do too much R&R and not enough trouble shooting. Is there another issue that keeps putting a load on this part? Kinda sounds like putting new O2 sensors on a car every six months just to keep the light out. How deep have they dug?

I've gone round and round with a few tech's and understand the frustration.Sometimes you have to walk away and find another specialty garage that is up to date on training. We have a local garage that had to school our local Chevy Dealer after they got their franchise pulled a few years ago. The old dealer wanted to be more competitive and lose the GM way of thinking that inflated costs for years and soured the customer. They now run as a independant dealer and are still selling and servicing cars.

And some wonder why GM is in the shape their in?

[njsteve]

That reminds me of a similar issue with my 95 K2500 Diesel Suburban. I was giving an ABS dash light. Brought it to the dealer. They said the code was indicated a faulty brake control computer. The dealer gave some ridiculous price to replace it saying that was the only thing that would fix the problem. I said no thank you.

My own mechanic buddy didn't believe the dealer either. After checking on my own at the various diesel and truck websites it turned out it was a faulty speed sensor in the hub, a common problem and that GM only had one code that showed when any number of different ABS faults occurred. It would not specifically say which part was bad - a mechanic had to actually do some checking of the individual parts - something most dealers won't bother doing. So instead of analyzing, the dealers will just find the most expensive part and swap it in...and make the most amount of $$$.

The faulty speed sensor was around $100 instead of $3000. When we went the to get the part at the dealer, the kid at the counter tried to sell us the $1000 hub with the sensor preinstalled in it. I said no thank you and did some more checking and found out that the sensor is sold on its own. The kid was either too dishonest or too lazy to look it up.