Our 'Junkyard dog'

[06T200]

So about a year ago I was wandering the bone yard looking for parts for another rig, when I spotted this black mystery car, I had no idea what it was, just that it had a bow-tie on the grill, so it must be some Chevy model. I showed a photo of the car to some friends and found out it was an Aveo. At that time it was not for sale, just had "do not touch - no part" written all over it in chalk. So I bought it for my mom to drive since she was driving an Oldsmobile POS. We watched it for a few weeks until it was in the 'for sale' yard. To make a long story short, I would buy a junk car again, especially this one.


First spotted - missing the fuel door, why is it HERE?


Inside shot - kinda dirty!


Wound up getting it out of there for $800 bucks.

2 weeks later = Road trip!


Finally legal


It begged the question since day one, why was such a nice car in a junk yard?? There appeared to be nothing wrong, it ran great, drove great, the AC was ice COLD, it was like a new car to me. It had some minor maintenance issues under the hood, but those were fixed in the first 20 minutes in the driveway. We eventually found out just why, and it was a painful ordeal that I eventually got sorted out with a LOT of help from members on the forum here. It wound up being the U0100/P0700 'problem from hell', that was fixed by cleaning a hidden connector under the coolant tank. We have found a few other makes with the same problem sitting in bone yards. I will say I have learned way more than I ever wanted to know about the MT-34 ECU, CANBUS protocols, TCM's and how it 'works', but it has helped me iron out other peoples cars with the same problem.

A year later she is still running strong, no issues to report, just thought this was kind of a goofy Aveo find others might get a laugh from. It is the nicest 'daily driver' car we own aside from the Sonic LTZ parked next to it.