Quote Originally Posted by petrified.rabbit View Post
I had a few lemons of fords.. there have been a few lemons of aveos here too.

But if those are all the issues in the 6 years and 50000 miles she has had the car. Then its not much of a lemon.

The paint is probably faded because its not clear coated. Some of the colors seem not to be.
The timing belt service interval should not have been a surprise, it is stated in the manual that came with the car.

Part of the car buying process is a few bad parts get through, thats one reason we have warranties.
I never said, or meant to imply it was a lemon. Just a couple problems that with a little more r&d never would/should have happened. Thats all. I respectfully disagree that you should expect failures from a new car. According to wikipedia the cars been produced since 2002, plenty of time to work out any bugs. Anyway, overall its been an ok car, as in no major failures. I was just stating my opinion of it. Thanks again for the help.