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Codi
Location: Moffat, Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
| | | Re: question for you auto people < Reply # 66 on 4/3/2019 3:57 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | figured I would up date this, I know its old, so.. that equinox.. the damn equinox..
owned it for three and a half years still paying for it, only threw 50000Km on it the battery was the first to go, then the timing CHAIN and water pump, then the brakes. burned oil faster then a civic, then the final kicker, the transmission had a complete melt down, full replacement required.
others may disagree with me, but I'm turned off of chevys and automatics for the next while.
now have a 2018 Subaru Forester Stick shift.
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| Codi
Location: Moffat, Ontario Gender: Male Total Likes: 1 like
| | | Re: question for you auto people < Reply # 67 on 4/3/2019 3:58 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | figured I would up date this, I know its old, so.. that equinox.. the damn equinox..
owned it for three and a half years still paying for it, only threw 50000Km on it the battery was the first to go, then the timing CHAIN and water pump, then the brakes. burned oil faster then a civic, then the final kicker, the transmission had a complete melt down, full replacement required.
others may disagree with me, but I'm turned off of chevys and automatics for the next while.
now have a 2018 Subaru Forester Stick shift.
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| Samurai Vehicular Lord Rick
Location: northeastern New York Total Likes: 1887 likes
No matter where you go, there you are...
| | | Re: question for you auto people < Reply # 68 on 4/3/2019 5:49 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Codi figured I would up date this, I know its old, so.. that equinox.. the damn equinox..
owned it for three and a half years still paying for it, only threw 50000Km on it the battery was the first to go, then the timing CHAIN and water pump, then the brakes. burned oil faster then a civic, then the final kicker, the transmission had a complete melt down, full replacement required.
others may disagree with me, but I'm turned off of chevys and automatics for the next while.
now have a 2018 Subaru Forester Stick shift.
| one thing you never mentioned was how many miles the car had on it when all this shit happened? a battery is a wear item. sometimes you do get a bad one... it's unusual, but it can happen. Brakes on a GM are finicky... I find with my mothers' Trax, I had to do brakes on it at 36,000 miles. She's a brake rider, though and we live in a pretty mountainous area. Again, I don't know where you live, but brakes are a little undersized for that vehicle, so yeah, I can see that being a repair issue, but again brakes are stupid easy and cheap to do on a GM. I bought ceramic pads, crossdrilled (or slotted- I can't remember and the car's not here) rotors for it... they're noisy but work well. As a GM guy with almost 30 years of experience with all manner of GM, the water pump is no big deal to do in an Ecotec family because unlike the 2.3L and 2.4L DOHC engines of old, they are external and you can get at them, and it should've been no more than $50 for parts, no more than an hour for labor. The timing chain? that's an unusual failure in an Ecotec… I've seen 2.2Ls and even that boat anchor 2.4L get 250,000 miles out of a timing set. and duh, automatics suck. everyone knows that.
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