Air intake tube changeover

[Rockcrusher]

After a little research, I've read GM changed the material of the often failing air intake tube from part no. 95489808 to part no. 94537633. My question is, does anyone know what year this part came out or what model years first received the new material part? As an aside, for anyone who has the new one installed, hows the new part holding up? Thanks.

 

[gnonne]

GM changed the duct on one of my 2012 1.8's, but I sold that car. The other 2012 1.8, I changed it, then sent in to GM for parts reimbursement. Not sure if I got the updated part or not, but seems to be holding up ok after a few years.

 

[JTee2017]

I heard the tube was updated sometime in 2014. Our 2014 is still fine with the original.

 

[Rockcrusher]

I pulled mine off to check it over this weekend and it was indeed the new part no. 94537633 tube. It's in good shape too. While I had the airbox off, I saw the dealership dropped in a new GM air filter too. From what I've found, they completely serviced the car with GM parts (filters and any parts it needed on the 172 GM Certified checklist). I'm pretty impressed. Someone in my 1.4 vs 1.8 thread made the suggestion that the dealership would use "cheap parts" to fix the car (not sure why a dealership would go outside their own parts dept. for "cheap parts" but oh well) but so far everything's genuine GM as I expected.

 

[JTee2017]

Yes. . using parts other than GM would be odd. Not sure they could even sell it then at a Genuine GM CPO.
It sounds like you got it from a good GM dealer.
Back in 2007, we bought a Cobalt from a dealer in a neighboring city. The dealer had zero customers there that afternoon were were buying it. I kept on asking why it was taking so long to get to the sales office and sign the paper work. We were there for 3 1/2 hours. We did get substantial rebates and the sales manager said even they could not get the car that cheap. Maybe he was peeved because of that?
I walked into his office finally after 90 minutes into that wait and he just smirked and gave some lame excuse. After we bought it, it turned out he/they did something wrong on the license form and we had to drive 45 miles back to get it done correctly. This was 3 days later and he had been fired. A month later the dealer closed and was sold to another owner.
You never know about dealers, so good to hear you had one with integrity.

 

[Rockcrusher]

Sorry your dealership experience was so bad that time. Its seems they go one way or the other. I was just impressed my dealer treated selling this little used Sonic to me with the same importance as a new car.

My first Sonic buying experience was NOT good. I special ordered the car in 2012. Being in PA, we don't have front plates. The dealer in question was in MD (my local PA dealer had zero interest in ordering the car). I made a firm point that I did not want holes drilled into the front bumper of my newly ordered Sonic. I reminded the salesman no less than three times over the course of the couple months it took to get the car built and delivered. Honestly, I felt kind of stupid reminding him that much as he repeatedly assured me that would be no problem.

The night I showed up to get the car, the salesman was proudly circling the car, eager to tell me about all the features. Of course mounted right smack in the center of the front bumper was a dealer advertising plate. I shut him down and refused to take the car. The general manager got involved and said the car would have to be re-ordered and I'd have to wait 2-3 more months (trying to pressure me into taking it). I said "Fine, then re-order it". He was shocked. Two days later, I go a call from the GM. They had switched the grill/bumper section out with another Sonic that didn't have holes in the bumper. I know, it was alot of hassle for some holes and I was stubborn but...

 

[Chuck Schick]

I have a 2014 and the dealer is switching the intake tube tomorrow, under warranty

 

[Dingleberry69]

I pulled mine off to check it over this weekend and it was indeed the new part no. 94537633 tube. It's in good shape too. While I had the airbox off, I saw the dealership dropped in a new GM air filter too. From what I've found, they completely serviced the car with GM parts (filters and any parts it needed on the 172 GM Certified checklist). I'm pretty impressed. Someone in my 1.4 vs 1.8 thread made the suggestion that the dealership would use "cheap parts" to fix the car (not sure why a dealership would go outside their own parts dept. for "cheap parts" but oh well) but so far everything's genuine GM as I expected.

The service guy at my local dealership actually told me that when they service timing belts, they order gates kits from the local parts store just up the street. When I balked at the cost of building a kit using GM genuine, or Delco parts, he got on the phone to the parts store, had one put on hold for me, and told me to run over there to pick it up. He saved me $350 in the process as well. Same thing happened when I was looking for plugs, Delco selling for $32 each, he told me that NGK makes the plugs for Delco, and told me that they got the plugs at the same parts store, and they are on hold for me $12 a pop there. Never got my vehicle serviced there yet, but I do love going to that parts department .

 

[poodle448]

Sorry your dealership experience was so bad that time. Its seems they go one way or the other. I was just impressed my dealer treated selling this little used Sonic to me with the same importance as a new car.

My first Sonic buying experience was NOT good. I special ordered the car in 2012. Being in PA, we don't have front plates. The dealer in question was in MD (my local PA dealer had zero interest in ordering the car). I made a firm point that I did not want holes drilled into the front bumper of my newly ordered Sonic. I reminded the salesman no less than three times over the course of the couple months it took to get the car built and delivered. Honestly, I felt kind of stupid reminding him that much as he repeatedly assured me that would be no problem.

The night I showed up to get the car, the salesman was proudly circling the car, eager to tell me about all the features. Of course mounted right smack in the center of the front bumper was a dealer advertising plate. I shut him down and refused to take the car. The general manager got involved and said the car would have to be re-ordered and I'd have to wait 2-3 more months (trying to pressure me into taking it). I said "Fine, then re-order it". He was shocked. Two days later, I go a call from the GM. They had switched the grill/bumper section out with another Sonic that didn't have holes in the bumper. I know, it was alot of hassle for some holes and I was stubborn but...

I hope you caused the manager some frustration from that experience. Sure, it's just a couple of holes for a license plate, but it's your car. You're buying it from them. They're supposed to be meeting and maybe exceeding your expectations. I've always taken vehicle purchases seriously, and when people don't listen in an instance like this, it makes me question their competence if I ever needed to bring the vehicle to them for service, warranty, or recall purposes. I hope they redeemed themselves for you and I'm glad it ended up working out for you.