Timing belt change on 2006 Aveo LS: My new detailed write-up

[djmarch]

Glad you found it! You are REALLY fortunate in 2 ways. First that you did the job before the whole thing blew up (which sounds like it was really close). And second, that the belt was walking off like it did. If the WP hadn't been quite as bad as it was, you might have not know about the problem and just buttoned it back up. If that had happened, something would have surely failed not too far down the road. All you lost was some time, and had some anxiety attacks. Might be a good time to buy some lottery tickets

Thanks avguy....Now that I've done this job, I'd recommend every Aveo owner that's mechanically inclined to do this. Don't be intimidated. It's not that bad of a job, since this is a routine maintenance on these cars. My suggestion would be change everything at intervals of 50,000 miles. Not 60,000...And buy quality parts.