Hello from Texas

[leelandk]

Figured I would introduce myself. Names Lee and I've been an Aveo owner since July of 2004. I'm 30 years old and I bought my car new and it now has 132K miles. Its paid off and I plan on driving my car until it dies on me.

Only problems I have had are the timing belt, waited too long (80k miles) to have it replaced and it cost me $2009. My fault not the cars. I also had the stupid plastic thermostat housing recently blow apart, but no damage done and replaced with a aluminum one from O'reillys. Also just recently had to replace the clutch and had another timing belt service done because I was worried the thermostat housing blowing up might have caused extra stress on timing belt and water pump. So I bought a kit and a new water pump and gasket.

Only current mods are a SRI, which I've had since 04, and recently replaced the generic filter that it came with it with a AEM dry flow filter.

I used to run a JL Audio 300/2 amp pushing 2 rockford fosgate 8in. subs and a cheap rockford fosgate amp pushing two 6X9's. Sounded great for 3 years, but in a money bind, I sold them.

Now I'm at the age where I just want a good reliable car that gets good gas mileage. And my car is still great at 132000 miles. I love my car, recently got 39.2 mpg. Its still in good shape imo and I plan on seeing how long I can drive it till it completely bites the dust.

[Daox]

Hello leelandk.

It sounds like you've hit all the major Aveo issues. Now that they're fixed you should be good for quite a while.

[petrified.rabbit]

welcome, if you keep up on maintenance i think it will last quite a while. Just stay as open minded as you are (didnt write the car off at 80k when the timing belt broke and not blaming the car) and i think you will be happy. Just balance out the cost of potential repairs with the cost of replacement cars, and their potential repairs.

[oscare003]

welcome fello texan~ where are u located at? im in victoria tx.

[leelandk]

welcome fello texan~ where are u located at? im in victoria tx.

I live close to the Oklahoma border, around Sherman/Denison.

[NYChevoo]

Welcome to the forums!

[paulsaveo]

Someone else from Texas on hear, good deal. I will be driving through your area next friday. we are going to my wifes aunt and uncles property up in oklahoma. cant remember the town, I do know its 30-45 minutes east of some casinos LOL

[leelandk]

Someone else from Texas on hear, good deal. I will be driving through your area next friday. we are going to my wifes aunt and uncles property up in oklahoma. cant remember the town, I do know its 30-45 minutes east of some casinos LOL

I actually live right on the border and spend most of my time in Oklahoma. I've worked at the Choctaw Casino in Durant, OK for the past 3 years. Pretty cool place to work at, just a giant casino in the middle of nowhere lol.

[paulsaveo]

I cant for the life of me remember the town my wifes aunt and uncle have property in but durant is what I was thinking of as far as the casinos go