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Chevrolet Cobalt General Care & Maintenance
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Joel
1. Plain car wash and spray wax.
2. Car wash&wax
3. Car wash&wax and spray wax
To keep a car always looking like new a car should be washed atleast twice a month and waxed every 3 months. Proper car waxing is to use a silicone wax such as Meguiar's NXT wax and then a day or 2 later a layer of pure canuba wax as P2S1. Not only will your car shine like new be will be protected from all the elements . Just thought I'de pass this on.
Thanks
Had to mention this to the members that like to keep their cars looking top shelf.
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Since that repair, every time I started my car (cold start) I can hear a clinking sound from the engine until it gets warm (the same sound as a muffler cooling off). I called the dealer and he said it was normal and the sound came from the bolts because they were warming up. I told him that it didn't do that when it was new, it's only from the time they worked on it.
It's been 2 months and I drove 2,000 km (1,250 miles) since they replaced my gaskets, oil, coolant and bolts ect... and tonight I was checking under the hood because I'm planning a little trip this weekend and guess what, I noticed that my coolant in my reservoir is 2 inches below the normal "cold" level and the color has gone from orange to a brownish color and the plastic of my reservoir is stained with a kind of milky white residue that sticks on the interior of the antifreeze recovering tank.
Any comments on what's happening?
Sounds to me that they need to fix the problem again.
They checked everything with a special light to see if the antifreeze was leaking from somewhere. Everything is o.k.
They said that probably there was air that got in the system when they replaced the head and valve gasket and they went up in my recovery tank and that's how the antifreeze's level went down.
They toped off the coolant to it's full level.
For the color change...they told me that it's probably dirt coming from the system that went in my antifreeze.
Now for the white, milky substance... it's formed by a dirt ring on my plastic recovery tank as my level was lowering slowly and with the movement it mixed with the antifreeze and settled on the side of the tank.
They recommended me to do a "cooling system flush and cleaning" in the future but that it was not urgent.
Result...my inner fenders (black plastic) are spotted all around with dry white paint splashed by the tires.
I tried to remove the paint with soap, spot remover, soap pad, gasoline, paint thinner nothing worked. One of those products has made my plastic fade, good thing I tried them on a spot that doesn't show to much.
Can someone suggest me something or has tried something with success to remove paint spots on plastic without damaging it?
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I am open to hearing experience on miles on brakes from urban commute and all other types of driving.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,