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#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)
#30 of 39 Re: crappy cobalt [paperboy_1] by poncho167 Apr 17, 2009 (7:21 am)
Replying to: paperboy_1 (Apr 11, 2009 2:48 am) What do you mean it died? Was it because you forgot to do some vital maintenance that most cars get at 100,000 miles or if Japanese 50-60,000 miles.
#31 of 39 crappy cobalt by cdn_shawty Apr 17, 2009 (8:08 am)
whats with ppl making accusations against others about not doing maintenance?? like not all cars or perfect or no one would be on this site so I dont get how ppl can sit and accuse ppl of not doing this or that if you weren't there and didnt drive the car
#32 of 39 crappy cobalt by paperboy_1 Apr 18, 2009 (11:04 am)
some people think they are right no matter what.. actually i really do not have a clue as to what he is saying. already said i did all the maintenance and keep the car up..but he wants to revisit the maintenance issue like it was me that crapped the car out..which it wasn't its a quality issue on the manufacturing end, or should i say lack of quality on the manufacturing end.. eighter way im not getting into a maintenance discussion since i ment what i said the first time and will not repeat myself.....its a lack of quality on the manufacturing end and thats that...if it was an issue of maintenance i would be getting 150ish miles out of all my cars.. instead i traded my nissan sentra at 230,000 <--still ran good just wanted something new.my nissan pickup truck was still running at 284,000 miles traded that for my cobalt which dies at 157,000..which makes no sence if its me not doing something then i would expect none of my vehicles to break the 200k mark.. its just the usa made vehicles that i owned and them only that did not see 200k+.. ahh yes speaking of usa cars..my cavalier died at 189,000 engine threw a rod, and my ford taurus the transmission went out on it at 163,000 both now junk yard items.. on the bright side of things my buddy still has his nissan pickup truck with 290k+ miles on it..still running great for him at 290,000 miles and 22 years old
#35 of 39 Re: cluster f*** [paperboy_1] by polyester1970 Sep 04, 2009 (11:59 pm)
Replying to: paperboy_1 (Oct 13, 2008 11:55 am) 155K miles you can't really complain. I had 2 Toyota's and they both died around 130K with cooling system problems even after replacing the entire cooling system. Most likely a head gasket problem. But they also had other problems before that.
#36 of 39 Standard Transmission hesitation by lindafuller Oct 16, 2009 (8:31 pm)
I have a 2006 Cobalt with a standard transmission that I bought 3 months ago. Now and then I have a problem with the shifting from 1st to second. It feels like it wants to stall out in highway traffic. Does anyone else have this problem?
#37 of 39 shitty cobalt by cdn_shawty Oct 16, 2009 (9:17 pm)
sad to hear that you bought a cobalt. i have an 06 and to be honest its a piece of shit! i even took it to CAMVAP arbitrators where I got nothing accomplished. car doesnt work properly and dies when it still reads it having 1/8 a tank and no one at GM can "find or fix" the issue so i have no choice but to go to my own mechanic who it independent and not a GM employee and see if he can find the issue and if so GM better be prepared... 2.5 yrs of hell! never again would I deal with GM! they claim my car is normal! never knew normal cars died when reading gas was is in it. quite a few ppl i know or know of have had tons of problems and got rid of their cobalts or wish they could.. me included except i still owe too damn much to get rid of the crap
#38 of 39 Re: cluster f*** [paperboy_1] by cobaltken1 Oct 17, 2009 (5:53 am)
Replying to: paperboy_1 (Oct 13, 2008 11:55 am) What more do you want out of your cobalt,you over load it everyday and you stop and go a thousand times everyday. Sounds to me you need to do more regular maintenance.

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