2005 Chevrolet Aveo Body and structure Problems

“1. Multiple times, my driver side door lock has completely fallen into the door. I have probably had this issue repaired five to six times, by both the Chevrolet dealer where I bought the car, as well as my own mechanic. 2. Things that were wrong when we first brought the car to the dealer for repairs in early april 2014. This is the list we gave them, modified for space: *clock a couple years ago, the clock in my car stopped working. Often, the clock would read 1:00 when I turned the car on, no matter what time it was. Sometimes, it would randomly display another time. …”

“The entire lock of the driver side door fell inside the door when I tried to unlock my door. First I tried to fix the problem myself, but simply could not repair the problem. However, I researched the issue online and saw that many, many others have encountered the same problem before with this model. Naturally, because I would like to be able to lock my car door, I took it in and had it fixed for $160. The customer service rep just smirked when I told him what happened and said that we must've pushed the key in too hard or something like that . I was not happy about the cost, but I paid. …”

“I traded in a 2004 p.t.cruiser to get a 2005 chevy AVEO at the time it had 21000 miles when I got it. My warranty was good till 36000. I had lots of issues with a noise that still to this day has not been corrected even after three attempts under my car by the chevy service dept. I then had a computer recall or something that had to be replaced I also had a gas cap that malfunctioned and a clock that had to be replaced. Those are the non life threatening issues. I had an incident inside of the original warranty where the car threw parts out of the engine. …”

“My daughter came to a stop in traffic at a red light 50 feet from the car in front of her and was hit in the rear traveling at about 40 miles per hour knocking her in to the car in front of her the air bags did not deploy and GM's investigation says she wasn't hit hard enough. She was sent to the hospital via ems with back and neck injury's this whole accident was caught on the car wash video cam .”

“My 2005 AVEO died on the 80 freeway at 65 MPH. There were no warning signs. Diagnosis:idler pulley snapped in two causing severe engine damage requiring new engine to fix. Very dangerous to have your car just die on a fast moving 4 lane freeway. 60,455 miles on vehicle at the time.”