2010 Aveo5 CEL P0053

[Jiggs]

What I don't understand, and I really haven't seen an explanation for it, is why do these cars burn thru their initial sensors so quick. There is no way that a car with 58,000 km should be having sensor failures at this mileage regardless of age. Sure some sensors do "fail" early but this appears to be an epidemic for Aveos judging by the 100's of posts and complaints across the web. I've owned many cars over the years and can't ever recall replacing sensors in any of them.

I'm wondering if perhaps cheaper production methods/materials were used to help bring down the costs of the car. If you save a dollar here a quarter there on the number of components in a car that number could be very significant, and we do know that it does have many components that fail or wear prematurely when compared with other makes.

Just for another example I inspected my various hose clamps after reading about cooling system failures due to hoses suddenly blowing off. I found that almost all of them were rusted almost to the point of powder. Again in all of my years of car ownership I can't recall ever replacing a simple hose clamp! On this one I've replaced all of them. I'm not sure what they used but it sure as heck wasn't stainless steel!