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#20 of 39 you about to have a death in the family by paperboy_1 Apr 08, 2009 (5:19 pm)
hurry before the car looses more value and trade it in.. i love my toyota, matter of fact i have two with no problems at all and do not expect any for at least 150,000 to 300,000 miles.. sounds like your car had major electrical problems or a computer brain problem or maybe carbon build-up on the throttle body ( cheapest fix ).. your car is telling you its about to die and needs to be parked in the woods to die in peace.. if you read my previous posts you will see that what you are experiencing is just a long line of problem leading to engine death.. trade that sucker in before its too late and the engine locks up and you get stiffed with a car payment on a car that no long runs anymore.. if you have to buy a cheap car, buy the toyota yaris.. toyota is good i traded my cobalt in on a camery and liked it so much i bought a tocoma three months later no problems at all on eighter and do not expect any for at least 250,000 miles.. sadly i buried my cobalt at 157,000 miles when it blew all my oil out the tail pipe and locked up forever.. funny thing is is that gm is going bankrupt and has not a clue.. in the short of things, there cars are crap...hey also if the car runs violently when running its probably the ignition control module it sets on the very top of the engine look for white arc burn if thats the problem slap another one on and get your butt to a toyota dealership that very day..if its the module it will run for about a day and burn out again..that indicate your entire electronics are screwed and as i have mentioned before its not something gm techs are trained to fix/care about/they already have your money when you bought the car Replies to this message: poncho167 (Apr 10, 2009 3:22 pm)
#21 of 39 Garbage cobalt by cdn_shawty Apr 08, 2009 (5:31 pm)
unfortunately i still owe way too much on my car to be able to afford a trade in. i shoulda test drove more cars before settling for this junk. my other choice was a yaris too and im greatly regretting it! I have no idea what im going to do. The worst part is i was only like 12 000kms over being able to demand a buy back thru CAMVAP! I have the extended warranty so thankfully nothing has cost me but once the warranty is out i cant afford to do this cuz ppl dont want to properly fix my car... those are only 2 of the many problems ive had too! speaker has gone and is blown again have to make appt but that is covered... everything under the sun has gone wrong with this car and I HATE IT!
#22 of 39 loss by paperboy_1 Apr 09, 2009 (11:29 am)
you may have to take a loss on the car.. when i traded mine in i got absolutly nothing for it.. that was because the motor locked up. but if it still runs , depending on the milage you still should be able to get something. from your post it appears that it is still under warrantee, which is good i would take it to a dealership anyway.. what will happen is this: lets say you own 7,000 on the car. the dealership offers you 5,000.. ok that means the remainder 2,000 will be added to the total price of the new car plus the cobalt will be paid off. they keep the crap cobalt and you drive away in the yaris.. with most standard loans that adds up to $20 per thousand so in that case $2000 will add up to $40 extra a month to pay off the cobalt and pick up the yaris.. when mine died i owed $5400 and could not get a cent for my trade in because the engine locked up which made my new camery payment over a hundred dollars more than what it should have been.. but i waited to long thinking i could just fix it and fix it till it was too late.. trade now before its too late. otherwise you will regret it.. just give it a try and see what you can work out.. if they do not offer you enough for the trade it , you can still drive away in the cobalt..mine on the other hand had to be towed in and i had no choice but to accept what i was offered which was nothing except to add the 5400 to the camry..   your just gonna have to take a partial loss now, that is unless you want to take a total loss later
#23 of 39 Crappy Cobalt by cdn_shawty Apr 09, 2009 (7:33 pm)
im going to see what happens after i deal with CAMVAP. problem is i owe jus under 13000 as i got the extended warranty and all that crap and had no money to put down when i got it. ive only had the car almost 2 yrs! problem is if i trade it in and got 8000 not only am i losing out over 4000 but then wont i have 4000 plus whatever i owe on another car like 2 different loans? i pay 248 a month now for my vehicle and money is tight as it is so for me to have 2 loans goin or even have one loan with an extra 50 a month is nearly impossible for me right now. i guess in the meantime i keep my fingers crossed that something good comes from CAMVAP and a miracle happens that my car gets fixed??? lmao wishful thinking eh!
#24 of 39 crappy cobalt by cdn_shawty Apr 09, 2009 (7:36 pm)
my grandfather worked for Ford and so I went to a dealer to see about a trade in for a ford but the guy said i would never be able to afford it and best thing would be to wait a couple years for my car to depreciate to equal what id have left owing on my loan.. if that makes sense,,, im not sure if i worded that right
#25 of 39 crappy cobalt by paperboy_1 Apr 10, 2009 (4:07 am)
na its just one loan not two.. they combine for example the remainder of the balance of the trade in if assuming a loss emm lets say $2000 + the yaris 14,000 thats would combine into one loan of $16,000 which would be around $360 payment.. well anyway hopefully you can do something before you start walking...   and reply to post#24.. if you owe less than the car is worth thats good.. if you own more than the car is worth, thats bad..depreciation is always bad unless you are buying rather than selling/trading in..
#26 of 39 Re: you about to have a death in the family [paperboy_1] by poncho167 Apr 10, 2009 (3:22 pm)
Replying to: paperboy_1 (Apr 08, 2009 5:19 pm) I bet you never owned a Cobalt and if you did you probably didn't maintain. The Ecotec's are arguably the best 4-cyclinder available on the market for performance, longevity, and reliability.   The Ecotec's when introduced took all the Guiness book of World Records away from the Honda Civic. They rule the drag strip as well in stock and pro-stock. There are as many performance parts available for them for anyone who builds and races cars as any other manufacture. A very respected engine.
#27 of 39 crappy cobalt by cdn_shawty Apr 10, 2009 (7:33 pm)
no its not that i didnt maintain it i look after my cars well any problems i have i take in to get looked at. i bought it from the worst possible GM dealer which i didnt fnd out until later... same dealer that apparently was in shit before for turning back the odometers so u cant sit and say i dont look after my car when the dealer is known for crap like that and like anyone says a young girl going in alone to a mechanic is trouble since they always try and rip u off. jusr because ecotecs are so "wonderful" doesnt mean they dont have lemons. every make and model has lemons and trust me if you saw the folder if things that have gone wrong with my car you'd probably agree... and for GM to sit and saw its "normal for a gas gauge to fluctuate" is a bunch of BS,,, since when do gauges go up and down so u dont know how much gas is in the tank and if thats so "normal" then I guess its normal for a car to stop and die in the middle of traffic as well????
#28 of 39 crappy cobalt by cdn_shawty Apr 10, 2009 (7:38 pm)
or was the to paperboy_1? cuz he said he had a cobalt as well
#29 of 39 crappy cobalt by paperboy_1 Apr 11, 2009 (2:48 am)
he was referring to me......... i owned a 2005 chevy cobalt. When i bought it, it had 19 original miles on it.. i changed the oil every 3,000 miles, and spark plugs every 30,000 miles..never changed the transmission fluid till it started pouring out on a daily basis.but i guess after about 130,000 i changed the fluid every day.. ie.. it leaked out, so i poured more in.. also i did not break the speed limit very much because i have to pay the tickets/tires/gas and everything plus im not a teenager so i did not abuse my car. poncho167 is one of those die hard chevy fans. who will not listen to anyone have a bad opinion of the cars he likes.. the proof is all the crap about the car being better than another car or this or that award and so on..all i know is about is the cobalt i bought and cdn shawty knows about his cobalt that he bought.. all the rewards/hype is just that 'hype' surrounding a car so who cares about that stuff. I am an individual and i base a cars worth on how it preforms with me personaly not how car and driver or whoever rates a car, thats silly. All car company put out there 'we build a good car and buy one because everyone wants one and look at what all the top experts say'.the reality is that those experts do not drive the cars when they have 100,000+ miles on them while still driving 200 miles a day seven days a week to work and back.they drive them when they are new, which i have to say when mine was new i was impressed with it as a 4 cylinder. After i got some miles on it , I was not so impressed. i and shawty want our cars to last a long time, thats why we bought them...i got the gm discount that helped me decide... but anyway, i would have much preferred my cobalt to last longer than 3 years and 157,000 miles.. but it didn't and i can not justify anyone buying one bases on my real world experience.. every time i and shawty have had a breakdown we have make our best efforts to have our cars fixed..in my case it was a total loss.. i am in my 30's, have done all the required maintainance, always kept good tires and breaks, kept the fluids to the proper levels and was looking forward to paying the car off and not having a car payment at all. For a few years assuming the cobalt held up. Which was what i wanted. But sadly it died and i had to go buy something else, and take a 5400 dollar loss on my crappy cobalt which was what i owed at the time of its death.. i wish i would not have had to trade.. Replies to this message: poncho167 (Apr 17, 2009 7:21 am)

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