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[thehunterooo]

there is a warrenty on the timing belt until 60k miles, or so it says so in the manual that comes with the car, would they replace the engine when it goes or are you in trouble? I dont quite understand what they meant by that

[serega12]

From what I understood by talking to the dealer - it's out of pocket to change the belt, If you're significantly below the 60k miles threshold, they might look into doing it for your covered by warranty. If you're even a few miles over (or close to 60k), they will do it, but it's going to be coming out of your pocket. As I was talking to them, there was a guy getting it done, and his bill was around $2300. Sounds like it would be worth it looking into the engine swap at that point. Not like fixing it at the dealer will extend your warranty or anything.

[thehunterooo]

i figure it would cost you to change it, but if it were to break before 60k miles, i would assume they would fix everything under warrenty by reading the manual, seems like some of the crap in the booklet is misleading, not like i care anyways though, a timing belt change is simple, even an engine swap for another aveo engine is cheap enough

[Nemasys]

I think its not that comon for the belt to break before the 60k mark, yes it has happened a few times but i can count on my finger the people i know that this has happened to them. Mine broke at almost 75k on my 1.6L

Its just a good measure to change it at 50-55k just to be sure but its not an emergency as soon as you hit 50k

A salvaged 1.6L in good working condition with low mileage is about 5-600 bucks, better bang for your buck then trying to fix an engine that has bent valves and damaged pistons.

Ohh i noticed a nice thing today, my new 2.0L has 31000'ish kms on it and it just turns out the odometer on my car reads 131 xxx kms. Its going to be easy to keep track of the mileage of that engine lol. Im not sure if the 2.0 is as prone to the timing belt issue that the 1.6 has.

[ontarian_frog]

From what I understood by talking to the dealer - it's out of pocket to change the belt, If you're significantly below the 60k miles threshold, they might look into doing it for your covered by warranty. If you're even a few miles over (or close to 60k), they will do it, but it's going to be coming out of your pocket. As I was talking to them, there was a guy getting it done, and his bill was around $2300. Sounds like it would be worth it looking into the engine swap at that point. Not like fixing it at the dealer will extend your warranty or anything.

The TSB says anything below 60k miles is covered. Any respectable dealer would honor it.

[coonhound]

What are these cars like in the winter?

[thehunterooo]

i thought it drives well, i didnt have any problems driving in the snow my first time in the aveo

[serega12]

i thought it drives well, i didnt have any problems driving in the snow my first time in the aveo

You get a lot of snow in florida?

[Wolfman AK907]

What are these cars like in the winter?

Fairbanks, Alaska here buddy...car runs great in the winter. The power steering pump whines for about 30 seconds when it's really cold out. No ABS on mine, you just need good tires. Bridgestone Blizzaks are the best.

[thehunterooo]

i thought it drives well, i didnt have any problems driving in the snow my first time in the aveo

You get a lot of snow in florida?

i got stuck living in PA for seveal months, and there were some nasty snow/ice storms