for anyone who's had their ecotec for a while, how are they for reliability. I'm just wondering how my car's gonna hold up. I'm not extremely hard on it, but I do like to acelerate hard. is revving it gonna kill it. Just wondering.
thanks
Hey Jon. Honestly These things hold up pretty good. As long as you keep up on your oil changes and let it warm up properly and such it should hold up fine. The only thing you might find yourself doing though is replacing the clutch from dumping it in and accelerating hard. ANd maybe your tires too.
Oh yeah and if you like just gettin on it real good and shifting, buy a short throw shifter. Its even more fun.
Hope that helped.
Rich
yea i had my car for almost 4 yrs now and the only problem i really had was replacing the trans because i use to drive like an a$$. other than that the only thing i replaced was the water pump, ignition switch and valve cover gasket. all very easy jobs.
thanks for the info. hopefully my trans should last. I don't really shift hard, but on the other hand, I've only known how to drive a 5spd for a little over a year now, so that could be taking its toll. Nobody taught me, I just figured it out. and if all else fails, I've got 5 year powertrain warrenty.
Well first off these arent BMWs or Benz or something, these are economy class cars. All cars have problems, some more than others, if you pay $60,000 for a BMW expect almost nothing to fail, if you buy a $17,000 Cavalier you might have a few issues.
I have only owned my car for a month and only had one problem, the antennas kept coming loose.
- 2004 Cavalier - 124k, owned since new
the Ecotec is what the Quad was supposed to be. It is basically a re-enginered quad. And by time the 2.4 twin cam had come out all of the quad bugs had been fixed. The Eco is a strong motor and will be very reliable, more reliable then a BMW, in my option.
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jimmythekid1 wrote:the Ecotec is what the Quad was supposed to be. It is basically a re-enginered quad. And by time the 2.4 twin cam had come out all of the quad bugs had been fixed. The Eco is a strong motor and will be very reliable, more reliable then a BMW, in my option.
BMW just did a test run of their new cars, by the way their test is, driving at a track in Germany at redline for 100,000miles and the cars can only stop every 130 minutes for gas thats it. They did it for a month and all the cars made it to 100,000, I seriously doubt that most engines could take that type of abuse.
- 2004 Cavalier - 124k, owned since new
Rob S wrote:jimmythekid1 wrote:the Ecotec is what the Quad was supposed to be. It is basically a re-enginered quad. And by time the 2.4 twin cam had come out all of the quad bugs had been fixed. The Eco is a strong motor and will be very reliable, more reliable then a BMW, in my option.
BMW just did a test run of their new cars, by the way their test is, driving at a track in Germany at redline for 100,000miles and the cars can only stop every 130 minutes for gas thats it. They did it for a month and all the cars made it to 100,000, I seriously doubt that most engines could take that type of abuse.
yeah but how do all the horns, buzzers, buttons and whistles due? I work on european cars and they nickle and dime you to death. Also give us a link to the resource for that test I'm sure some of us would like to read about.
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that is interesting but the article never said they ran at red line or 100,000, just high speeds. And they pitted at recommend service intervals to changes fluids and wear parts. Basically they just drove 100,000 in a month with only rest for fuel and maintenance.
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jimmythekid1 wrote:that is interesting but the article never said they ran at red line or 100,000, just high speeds. And they pitted at recommend service intervals to changes fluids and wear parts. Basically they just drove 100,000 in a month with only rest for fuel and maintenance.
Alright you dont read close enough
"Texas – Three Mercedes-Benz E320 CDI sedans have just shown a still-sceptical American public that diesel-powered cars are not only reliable and economical to run but also fast by each covering 100 000 miles (160 934km) in 30 days."
Secondly 224.8km, 100km is 60mph, if I remember correctly, so 200km = 120mph, then add 25km about 15mph, so the cars were driven at 135mph, that has to be close to redline, plus I did hear they were driven at redline from Car and Driver or Motor Trend forget what one.
- 2004 Cavalier - 124k, owned since new
