Dont buy an Aveo (German, air conditioning, GPS, coupe)
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I just got rid of my aveo, it was an 06 and I bought it new. I have had nothing but problems with it. I was warned that it was a POS. It has been in the shop for front end noise 4 times, I complained to GM and they could not fix it so gave me a 5 year 100k mile extend on the front end and the air conditioning. The air keeps giving off a wet sock smell when you use it. They kept dumping cleaning solution down the drain of the condenser pan and it would smell like cleaning solution and bubble gum for a week then dirty socks again. The noise in the front end is a squeak when you go over a bump at slow speed. Then just after war. ran out the key celinoid would not disengage and let the key out, also the celinoid that disengaged the block in the shifter lever did not work at the same time. I found several threads on line that seems to indicate that this is not a rare problem. I took the consul apart and found that if I jumped the wires leading to the switch in the shifter it would release the key pin, then I took a zip tie and tied back the block on the shifter lever. I then took the POS to the Toyota dealer and took it up the tail pipe and got 5500 trade in.
I bought a 09 Corolla. The car is much tighter than the aveo and much less road noise. I would not recommend this daewoo to any one. The MPG was good but after buying a GPS system the speedo. was off by 5 MPH, this would show much better MPG than it was really getting.
I just got back from Myrtle Beach, it got 39 mpg there and back, not to bad but it was more like 36 mpg.
This car is cheap but when you factor in all the problems and how cheap it really is I would recommend a Toyota over this POS any day of the week and twice on Sunday.
This one of the biggest reasons GM and Ford are going byby. Ford is cutting production by twenty percent then fifteen next quarter.
This ain't from selling so many cars they want to cool the lines a bit.
Screw the American car company's, they have had ample time to get their crap in line.
I will not buy another Ford or GM product. Chrysler is dead man walking.
Yeah the Chevy Aveo is really a Daewoo Daewoo Kalos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . I myself sort of make it a point to find out all about who makes what on a car (because the badge can be misleading). I'm sorry to hear you had to go through so much.
That problem you were describing with the key...my mother has had the same problem on her 07 Chevy Cobalt (brought it last August...not even a year). Two times she got stuck somewhere because the steering wheel gets into a position where the key won't turn and start the car (and of course the steering wheel is locked). Chevy says the problem "is common" and that's it. Really unbelievable. So I'm not a fan of Cobalts either.
I hear what you're saying about American cars; although my previous 3 cars were Ford Probes (really Mazda MX-6's in disguise) and they were great. Now I have a Chrysler Sebring Coupe (really a Mitsubishi Eclipse GT in disguise) and I think it's great so far. I rented a Pontiac Vibe (same as Toyota Matrix) and loved that too. So it depends.
I rented an Aveo years ago, back when it was called a Daewoo. Had the same problems with the key dis/engagement. Apparantly, American ownership hasn't made any strides in improvement.
My Chevy turned THREE on the 5th of May and I could not be happier or more satisfied.
Other than normal maintenance, only two very simple warranty items (weak rear deck gas struts and a weak battery). By comparison, my neighbor has a two year old Toyota Highlander and it has been in the shop at least a dozen plus times.
Sorry, TJJackson . . . I LOVE MY CHEVY and I would never consider a Toyota.
My Chevy turned THREE on the 5th of May and I could not be happier or more satisfied.
Other than normal maintenance, only two very simple warranty items (weak rear deck gas struts and a weak battery). By comparison, my neighbor has a two year old Toyota Highlander and it has been in the shop at least a dozen plus times.
Sorry, TJJackson . . . I LOVE MY CHEVY and I would never consider a Toyota.
Must be the only person with a bad highlander, ever one I know who has one has never had a problem or are you just smacking on Toyota? I also notice you don't mention what type of chevy you have. Hmmmmmm
My Chevy turned THREE on the 5th of May and I could not be happier or more satisfied.
Other than normal maintenance, only two very simple warranty items (weak rear deck gas struts and a weak battery). By comparison, my neighbor has a two year old Toyota Highlander and it has been in the shop at least a dozen plus times.
Sorry, TJJackson . . . I LOVE MY CHEVY and I would never consider a Toyota.
I like my Chevy too, but like already mentioned, the Aveo is NOT a real Chevy. Every time I see an Aveo I think of the early 90's Pontiac Lemans that was built by a Korean company, they were junk too.
I like my Chevy too, but like already mentioned, the Aveo is NOT a real Chevy. Every time I see an Aveo I think of the early 90's Pontiac Lemans that was built by a Korean company, they were junk too.
I like my Chevy too, but like already mentioned, the Aveo is NOT a real Chevy. Every time I see an Aveo I think of the early 90's Pontiac Lemans that was built by a Korean company, they were junk too.
Same company: Daewoo-------I am willing to bet that the above 'Le Mans' and Aveo were/are built on the same basic platform.
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