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get it out today or Wednesday. I have 6000 miles to go on my warrenty. I have an
extended warranty and have gone to 2 different Chevy garages this is the 2nd time
I am having a valve job within 15, 000 miles. The one I am at now metion that
the fuel injectors are not working right, but I will let you know what I find out. When
they replaced your engine did they tell what caused it to go bad. Like a cylinder
head running to lean, or using the wrong kind of gas, or timing belt jumped, or bad
fuel injector, bad plugs, or plug wires? I am actually thinking of sueing, Would they
have a fit if we started a class A action suit? I will repost when I get my car back.
This garage is charing me for plug wires, and I had the plugs in the car they are
using them. My car has the 100,000 thousand mile warranty. To me this is fraud.
Unfortunately, I see 1 of 2 things in your future...an expensive trip to a authorized dealer or a replacement vehicle.
I wish I could offer a more optomistic view...give us a post with the results...Good Luck!
www.schneiderwallace.com/Practice.
Thanks
Tamika :confuse:
By the way, I was the proud owner of a 2005 Aveo Hatchback that certainly enjoyed its set of unique "circumstances", so I am no fan of this car. I say "was", because i unloaded it this past January while it still had a bit of value left on it.
I also had clock issues (mine had a poor grounding connection, and once repaired, worked flawlessly for 2.5 years). The C/D player worked great for the first 6 months before acquiring the ability to skip tracks at any random time.
It was on its 3rd sunroof when it sold (34,000 miles), and also had its shares of squeaks and rattles, along with the associated interior body parts coming loose and falling off.
Having said all that, what is your goal here?
I understand being upset with the reliability of the car, but very few class-action lawsuits involving automobiles are files over clock and stereo/audio issues. Most are from engine/transmission issues and safety issues.
Don't get me wrong...I'm not trying to rain on your parade, its just that I don't see where you can go with this, unless you have a widespread safety or engineering issue.
While there have been many posts about engine issues, these are not even a drop in the bucket when compared to the total Aveos sold. And, many of the engine related issues are related to broken timing belts, which GM says to replace every 60,000 miles (and many of these engines have exceeded this mileage without having the service done).
In any case, I wish you luck and hope you arrive at some form of satisfaction...
My V6 Chevy S10 p/u with over 140,000 miles has never had the chain replaced. I was told by a mechanic friend that it is not necessary in this engine.
The radio issue and clock are related to the ground wire to the chassis. There was posts on this forum a few times before.
they said they either where a bad lot or put in wrong, I still had to pay another deductable. My heater went out during a blizzard we got 18 inches all roads were closed this is at 11:00 p.m. I work 2nd shift. I thought I was going to freeze to death, I was frozen, I have what you call Raynauds disease, once my digits get frozen then gangrene can set in. The first chevy garage did 4 valves and 1 lousy seal. I am sick of the dealers not doing a proper job. I am sick of GM, they keep producing this hunk of--------------. They do not have any recalls except seat belts,
which neither garage took care of. I am having problems with fuel injector clogging
up all the time even with a hot fuel injector cleaner. Driving with any wind the front
end is all over the road. I even got pulled over by a cop for drunk driving and had not
had a drink it was the front end. Every time I bring it into the garage they say they can not find anything. My 1st valve job my mileage went right down hill, I was getting 15 miles to the gallon they said there was nothing wrong with it this went on for 6 months, the 7 month every 30 miles used 4 gallons with today's price of gas thats when I needed the 2nd valve job done. I really don't care if the attorney get's most of the money, I want GM to start taking care of there problems. I have Fidility warranty company I got about 6 differnt answers they won't dispute it either,
neither will the second chevy garage when I showed them the invoice from the first
job they said: Oh My they did only half the job. I thought the warrany company was there to please you. We only pay for what the garage orders. I am sick of getting the run around. After the 1st valve job they could not tell me why the valves
went, and you know something else has had to be wrong.The manager at the Chevy garage he said that the GM inspector said he would fix it this time but never again, he said it was due to reckless driving. What a joke.
No it is time to quit complaining and do something about it. That is what I hope to
achieve.
thats okay. Yes I have the clock problem too. Happy Easter
I think a better path would be to go to the agencies that are involved with quality control of automobiles. Maybe you can file a complaint with NHTSA. If enough people do that and there's a serious safety issue, they may issue a recall.
i am also ask to go for high speed drive to clear "carbon" in the chambers.
what is this letter that u are refering to on the sensor problem?
i am also wondering what recourse i will hv as it is over the 3 year warranty period
:lemon: :lemon: ??
if you had the codes pulled at a garage there should be other codes included also? if someone used a autostore bought generic scanner to pull your dtc's you need to get the car scanned by a garage that has a better quality scanner you need it scanned immediately so you cant avert a transmission failure the P0300 code is a primary code for a misfire normally followed by another code P0301-P0312 the secondary code will tell you what cylinder the misfire has been seen by the pcm.
afterthought: if you dont get the misfire corrected it could lead to restricted exhaust and catalytic converter failure another expensive repair
I'm fairly certain there's a bulletin out about this and I may have to get the valves replaced, but I seem to be hearing from others that it doesn't necessarily fix the problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated?
:confuse: :sick:
"Transmission Range Sensor" , neutral saftey switch is not working or shift
indicator switch is not working, you may not have backlights. The dealer people call it a prindle switch (prndl-park, reverse, neutral, drive and low) also called transmission range sensor.
"Transmission Control System" PO700, there is a TSB out on that for the 2007 model. www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/recalls
Hope this helps
Yupper
I just took my car out for a little cruise and waalaa. Its working like its spossed to. It doesnt stick in 1st gear anymore and the check engine light that was still on, is off now. I talked to a freind that I work with whos a manager for O'riely's Parts (Orielys is his main job) and he mentioned that some cars computer systems will do a self check every so often so I guess I just needed to drive it around a bit and let the car feel itself out after I repleaced the bad switch. As far as the sensor, Im thinking that the sensors are in the switch that I replaced so it solved the problem all together. This is the 1st repair Ive had to do on this car and man did I get lucky.( couldve also been my awesome mechanical skills...lol.) I found the problem, researched it, and fixed it all on the 1st try. I havent had an american car in quite a while, so jumping back in and succeeding was the greatest feeling ever. As I did my research on this issue I found minimal information.....Hope maybe this will help some1 else out. Outies.
I am noticing lately, that since I have HAD to slow down even more, thanks to all the damn cops hiding in the bushes, earning their money! My transmission is not shifting at the points that I use to have them shift at. God knows I drive like an 'old woman' as it is, but now I have to drive even slower, especially in the mornings, with all these school zones and cops with radar! Can I pull out a chip or something, to make the transmission forget my old driving pattern and to relearn a new driving pattern? Or is it imprinted on my driving pattern and I am stuck with it shifting at the wrong speeds and hunting for the right gear? :confuse: :confuse:
Does any one know whats wrong with the transmission and how i can fix it?
Do you have a manual transmission or an automatic?
I am also going to bring back into chevy and going to personally watch them check my transmission and take them for a drive. If they find anything i will send a post your way. :sick:
Good Luck
Rick
I too am now having the exact same problem (solid check engine light, then blinking and won't shift up past 3rd gear)
My mechanic who swapped the engines claims he has no idea what's wrong, but I think he's just BSing me as this happened 2 days after I got the car back, so he's already been paid.
scy80, how did you solve this? Did Riboo's suggestion work?
So, I wonder if this is going to be a once a year thing with this car or what? I'm tempted not to fix it and use the override, but I don't want to damage anything by doing that long term.
I showed up and told him what was wrong and what needed to be done. He said, "yea ok well it will be $99.95 for us to do the diagnostic and then we will let you know what we find from there." I left the car and walked off thinking wonderful they are going to charge me a hundred bucks to find out they have to do what I said in the first place. While on my walk-a-bout I spotted the tech and MY car at the walmart. Can you believe it! So shortly afterward I started my way back to the dealer I got a call from the dealer telling me that they needed to do a relearn procedure for the crank shaft sensor and it will be $150. I mentioned seeing my car and that I would discuss it more when I return. Well as I am stepping back on thier lot about hour has past since I first spotted my car and guess what pulls in behind me, yep MY car once again. I tell the manager all of this and they decide to do the work for FREE.
So here is the moral of the story instead of paying the dealer all that money to test your car to find out you were right. Let them take it to the store and then make them do the service for free.
$120 later, I get the car back with no lights, fantastic right?
5 minutes driving it comes back on, flashing away. I'm losing my patience with this POS. :mad:
Did you take the vehicle back to the dealership right away so they can fix it? Was the vehicle ever fixed? Thank you,
Mariah GM Customer Service
They quoted me a TSB about replacing the cylinders.
Since it's out of warranty I'm not willing to spend $2000 on a TSB that really should have been a recall due to an engine design flaw.
Can you please email me your current mileage and VIN of your vehicle so I can look into this further? Can you also send me more information about the situation? You can get my email by clicking on my name. Thank you,
Mariah GM Customer Service
I apologize that you have experienced a concern with your vehicle. Have you taken the vehicle in to be diagnosed? Thank you,
Mariah GM Customer Service
I would definitely take it in to the dealer. Can you please email me your complete contact info including a good number to reach you, VIN, current mileage, involved dealer, and your Edmunds username (or a link to this page). I look forward to your response.
Christina
GM Customer Service
If so, I've had the same problem, and GM keeps telling me about their technical bulletin that would cost $2000.
Right now I keep a code clearer in the car and clear it every time I want to go over 70kph. The car kicks into the higher gears then.
I've been doing this for almost 2 years now with no consequences other than the inconvenience of the constant beeping of the code reader/clearer and the flashing light.
Soon I'll be trading this POS in and will abandon the GM brand all together based on this experience.
Now--new issue---hubby was driving home in stop and go traffic and the car just stopped moving. It was reving up but the car was out of gear so he and his car pool buddy pushed it off the road, shut it off, and then tried to restart it but it did not want to start back up. They walked around it to see if they could see if anything was leaking and looked under the hood and seen nothing out of the ordinary. They got back in and it finally started up after 10 miniutes or so and all was fine. Took it to the dealer and when I checked in the guy popped the hood and pulled out the transmission fluid dip stick. He said "No freaking way" over and over again as he put drops of the fluid on his paper and smelled it. He said that the fluid was WAY DARK and smelled burnt and there is no way a car with less the 15,000 miles on it should have that kind of transmission fluid.
Well they kept the car overnight called me today to tell me to come and get it that there is nothing wrong with it. That " the tech is unable to verify concern, scanned for codes and bullentines and found none" so therefore there is nothing wrong with it. Next time it jumps out of gear to push the onstar button and have it towed to them and they will see if they can figure it out next time. I have a handicap son and we use that car since it gets great gas mileage to get to the doctor appointments farther away and I do not want to break down on the freeway with him. After reading that our LEMON CHEVY is not alone with this issue you would think GM would stop covering up the issue and recall them.
(ok wishful thinking but it would be the right thing for GM to do)
Hope I get a response from GM as others have with an explaination why there is mulitple complaints of the same issue but nothing on the computer about it so the dealerships can see it IS a problem with this model car and can actually fix it.
EDIT: I forgot to add when I got the papers when I picked up the car it has a small hand written note on there that says "TRANS SEEPAGE" I did not notice it until later so I called back and the guy said oh I forgot to tell you about that. It is normal for a transmission to leak but if you are concerned we will rechecked at your next oil change in 3,000 miles.