Dusty Bones

Change brands of gas or don't use off brand gas like speedway. Even BP gas made mine smell like that. Switched to shell and no more.

Don't do it. You're lugging the crap out of it shifting and cruising around in 5th at that speed. It may be very well balanced but these engines are made to rev. Just look at what they do at 70 mph. The engine will carbon up heavily if you cruise under 2k RPM.

I've noticed it bites hard late. When it does just give it some more gas. It's not too hard to adjust to. It also likes higher rpm. Trying to shift below 2k or when the shift lit comes on is a sure way to lug it. lugging is bad. The dang thing wants to be in 5th at 26-27mph. Way too low. It's hard on the engine and will surely build up carbon on the valves and piston very quickly, which will add it's own problems. Keep the cruise rpm at 2k and it runs smooth.

Anyone who drives one for long miles knows the person who wrote that got the hard to use the info center by reading the manual and not actually using it. They must get confused easily. The rest of the info looks like they took a fast peek at interior pics and guessed how it would ride and level of cabin noise. Conclusion. Some millennial metro sexual parties too hard with his hipster consumer reporting company and needed to finish something for a dead line. It's so far off it has to be made up.

Last year I was reading an actual test where non top tier gas was compared to top tier. The level of detergents in non top tier premium was at best half that of top tier regular grade. So an off brand premium won't even be half as good as top tier regular. I know the current aveo the wife drives and remember the 05 run and ran best on BP. I'm going to go out of my way and run BP from now on. It will be worth it, might be out of the way but I can live with that. I can only guess but the first owner had to be running some pretty crappy gas and only doing very short drives. Running a fuel cle

Top tier does keep it clean. I live way out and closest top tier to me is 16 miles away. For some it's not readily available. I've also witnessed nothing but top tier fuels being used carbon up engines when they were lugged consistently in any kind of engine. So the use of top tier alone will not guarantee a nice clean engine if driven in grandpa mode or a few miles here and there without ever getting fully warmed up. My generator runs at 3600rpm constantly and after hundreds of hours there was barely a spec of carbon anywhere when I tore it down. That thing burns nothing but nasty old gas

The thing with mine was 6,000 miles in two years from the first owner. I don't think they had it over 45 when they had it and only drove 3,000 miles a year. That shift light will fool ya if you haven't driven a stick before or just blindly trust it. I gather in the name of saving gas they (GM) prefer you to lug it and dirty it up quick. On another note, when I got my Harley some years ago it only had a bit over 1,000 miles on it and it's almost mandatory to lug them things. People cruise at way too low of an RPM on them things. When I went through it I pulled the plugs and the tops of the Pist

It only gets driven to work and back. Same route, same pump, temps were 20-40F. Fill ups were within 4 miles of each other at time of fill up and that was dependent on if I filled up on the way home or on the way in. the only two changes were oil and fuel system cleaner.

Noticed the manual says to run a fuel system cleaner every now and then. Most new car manuals instruct you to never use anything but no one ever listens. Of course the manual says use genuine GM part number XXXXXXX and we all know it's just a sales pitch. So after I changed the oil I dumped in a can of what I've used forever. Ran it to near empty before filling up again. Next five fill ups I average 3.6mpg more. I bought it "used" with just over 6,000 miles on it. I think whoever had it before me was shifting (manual trans) when the shift light says to and lugged the ever living life out

I went out to see who has oil filters for the little engine. Advance auto said they could get me one. So the lady says its $119.99. I looked at her screen and the part numbers match up for the factory part. I can order them online for $7.98 or there abouts from them. So I went down to the dealer and eight bucks and change got me one. That's a huge difference from a $220.00 part at the dealer for the wife's aveo that I got on Amazon for $13.00. I don't think I would trust anything else. The factory filter is a solid little filter. It is heavy and a peek inside shows it ain't built like a re

Sounds to me you went in hot and the stability feature tried to save you. Anyone else thinking of driving like that should read this as a reminder to turn off the stability and traction control if they plan on driving Like that.