The noise going away while actually driving is a symptom of a bad coupler, if I remember correctly.

Idling is when you here it most!

i hope thats all it is

sounds to me like this "warranty" is simply designed for them to infate the heckout of the price so that the half you pay pretty much covers their butt...the nerve these people have is unreal...asking you to swap cars in my opinion is admitting they are incompetent.
I had a GM "certified" used car and I never took it back to the dealer.

well actually the used car side has to pay the service department so the used car side wants to take it some place else cheaper which they did today so now i have to wait again..he also said they could write me a check for half and i do it on my own i said i want to wait this is nerve racking though and i have paid out 90 bux in gas into the loaner since thursday..about to be fed up!!

stick with it and wait for the GTP to get right. Eyes on the prize, Mandee.

thankyou it helps hearing that

Yep, just stick it out and see, I bet they will probably say the s/c needs to be replace.

My friend has a 2002 gtp and a year ago he had a rattling noise as well and it was his coupler and replace it and never had a problem with it again. Everytime on this website usually someone says its a coupler and that be the end of the problem for the s/c and nothing but smiles.

Lets us know the details of it.

ok soooo the outcome of my car is............. they say i have a bad tensioner pulley and the bearings inside the snout are ratteling soo they want to replace the pulleys they claim the bearings can last forever that way but suggest i fix it while my car is still under warranty (which is half) they said to replace the pulley and snout is 700.00 so i pay 350.00 WELL i came home got on this website i was told about www.intense-racing.com and saw the bearings are just 19.99 so i am going to call the shop that the dealership took my car to and ask them why cant they just replace the bearings...is it hard or what???i dont understand...i get to pick my car up tomorrow because they claim it will take a week for the snout to come in from California...i am confused hope you guys arent please give me some opinions asap

I'm surprised they suggested replacing the snout. Eaton states that the supercharger is non-serviceable and the whole unit must be replaced. Not parts.

i dont get it then why do they sale the parts for it???lol

because even though Eaton says it's not servicable, anybody knows that if it's got bolts, it can be fixed, repaired, or replaced.

If it's the tensioner pulley and the coupler, why don't you try doing it yourself? It's MAYBE $60 in parts and then some basic hand tools are all you should need. Well, you'll also need a turkey baster or something to suck the S/C oil out with, although you could just remove the snout w/ the rotors attached and just replace the coupler off the car. That way you could just drain it over a bucket or something.

Unless the actually MEANT the bearings and not the S/C coupler. If it really is the bearings, I think you need a press to install those bearings.

But if it's just the coupler...
http://www.zzperformance.com/grand_prix/products1.php?id=155

$30 + the install instructions are right there.

And IIRC, a tensioner puley is a $30-50 part at any parts store and only requires a socket set to replace.

its the bearings not coupler i made sure

That's funny the bearings failed before the coupler and they didn't even pull it apart. They want $350 from you.

Is there some one in Ohio that can hook this girl up?

Bingo!!!!! coupler.

Have em change the pulley's that's for sure. Don't let them touch the S/C unless you want to throw them your cash.

Remember they tried to get you for $1500 you called their bluff. Come to think about it I bet the pulley noise is making them think the bearings are shot and to cover their butts on the initial diagnosis they still claim it's the S/C and still trying to get a good chunk of cash out of you.