Water pump has been replaced twice and still leaks coolant from somewhere.
Electrical problems caused car to cut off going down highway.
Misfires on cylinders 2 and 7 at different times.
This car is great as far as comfort is concerned.
Too many computers and sensors all over car causing serious headaches.
Oil consumption not to big of a deal even with 90,000+ miles.
So expensive to repair even for the smallest of problems.
Front wheel drive in a big car with a V8 was a dumb idea.
"Front wheel drive in a big car with a V8 was a dumb idea." OK, try having a rear wheel drive "big car" in winter, its not pretty. So that was the point of making these cars front wheel drive. Second, have you even tried to figure out why the car misfires? My car did that once, it was the plug wires. The water pump issue? Could have been the mechanics fault, not the cars.
No, the point in having front wheel drive and a V8 had nothing to do with snow/bad weather driving. It was just stupid decisions (as usual) on GM's part. If bad weather was the overriding factor ALL Cadillacs would have had front wheel drive from the introduction of the mid-1960's Eldorado. They did not until the 1980's, and their marketshare slide until the introduction of the Escalade.
And Cadillac's target market did NOT care about front wheel drive as Mercedes, Lexus, Infiniti, and BMW - all rear wheel drive - were and still are far preferred over Cadillac. AND today Cadillac's big sellers are REAR wheel drive. Only Audi is an exception in the league, but that was mainly because a quattro version was always offered and usually taken by luxury car buyers.
It was yet another marketplace blunder from GM, a company that will probably not exist in its current form a year from now.
I doubt it or any other issue is the mechanic's fault. These are just unreliable cars, all riddled with problems.
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