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9.0
really awful- Typical Repair Cost:
- $800
- Average Mileage:
- 113,000 miles
- Total Complaints:
- 2 complaints
Most Common Solutions:
- not sure (1 reports)
- repair or replace rear main seal (1 reports)
engine problem
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A D V E R T I S E M E N T S
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WOW. I'm alive and writing this. I was traveling 70mph and all of a sudden I lose power steering, power breaks, and power (gas pedal). WOW? Can you say myself and passenger could have died because of this engine failure?
I just happened to be in the "slow" lane and managed to physically pump the brakes and wheel slowly enough to get off to the shoulder without crashing into anything or anyone crashing into me. As a teenager, I had driven a car once that had dead power steering, and I knew about pumping the breaks manually from lessons from my father years ago... WOW. I'm alive still.
You know, I had vaguely heard or read that timing belt failures on this model car were a problem at around ~50k miles and you should probably replace the belt at that point. But, you know, the modus operandi of a layperson taking car of their car parts wearing out is that you replace Part X at the shop when it breaks. Preventative maintenance -in my mind- generally falls into the categories of tires, oil, batteries, and breaking systems. Timing belt? That's not exactly something my oil change team at Goodyear suggests to me I do as an upgraded service; and my regular mechanic never suggests elective work for me either (they're good guys!)
At some point I had mentally just decided to wait and see when "mine broke", because I mostly do short city drives. Of course the timing belt would break for the random drive 3.5 hours from home. After getting towed, taxi to a train station, I was $250 lighter in my pockets (train tickets for 2?) just to get home.
Now, the car is sitting in the lot of a repair shop, 150 miles from home, and, like everyone else here, even though 73k miles on a car shouldn't be "that much" these days for a car that I generally was "gentle" on, this is still just a crappy Daewoo with a Chevy sticker on it.
Meanwhile, of course, I had scheduled this car to go in for Daytime Running Lights recall repair NHTSA Recall #A140093... like a week after the timing belt failed. Where's the NHTSA recall for timing belts? I'm sure my DRL module was a lot less dangerous than a snapped timing belt at 70mph on the highway.
With all the city ding marks on my bumper, this is a "total" loss repair.
- mikebos, Somerville, US