Alero is worse car I've ever owned. Now it's the intake manifold gasket, which I guess GM was being sued for, but so much for that since they are out of business. I have owned Japanese cars up until this one, and I have a Subaru in my driveway that my son drives and the thing never has anything wrong with it with over 200,000 miles. The Alero has had the most inconvenient problems like the gears in the windows breaking. I had to replace two so far and a third one is making noise. The knobs on the dashboards fall off. The security system at times doesn't allow my to start my car, which I found a remedy for: keep the key in the "on" position for 10 mintes until the security lights go off and you car starts like magic. I just replaced a major part in my mufller called a catalytic converter for $500. I had a dent in one of my aluminum wheels that caused the tires to wobble when driving and it cost $500 to replace the rim. I was lucky and found a place in TX that had one for $100. Good riddens to GM--it's not wonder they went out of business--they made a lousy product!