2009 Chevrolet Aveo5/ Quick Drive
Cars.com:
Hi I'm Bill jackson with cars dot com
we're here with the redesigned Chevrolet
Aveo
5 hatchback it compared to what the
growing market with the Honda Fit Nissan
Versa and Toyota Yaris
last year the city and got redesigned
this here
it was the hatchback stern as part of
the redesign it got Chevy sort of
traditional New
split girl with the large 7 logo in the
middle and it has a short overhangs as
part of the redesign is that this answer
from the front of the tire to the bumper
it gives it's sort of a stubby look
overall but I don't really mind that
hatchback
again this is Chevrolet's
entry-level cars that are looking for
wood trim or fancy leather interior
you can get that but not on this model
which is just one step up from the base
model
got a manual transmission a manual mir's
should not see that every day an overall
it's what you'd expect a lot of plastic
personally I don't think it's that bad
for an entry-level car but it does have
to be said that other cars such as the
Honda Fit
and the Nissan Versa our little nicer on
the inside than they have a 05
again you have a lot of headroom I which
is nice for small hatchback but one
thing and are set to drive this car for
a while as I could never get the sea
quite where I wanted it especially for
my legs I'm road all the way back and
it's still a little more been there that
I like
that mean generally makes a 106 for
sparse here are going to win any races
but it's pretty good for my legit
estimated to get 27 miles per gallon
City
34 highway that's about what I got in a
week's worth the drive in
about one thing though it you really
want to get the help manual transmission
and Germany automatic
it's pretty slow and you really have to
think about how you gonna pass emerge
mister happy with the manual
transmission but it's just a little more
fun to drive
like I said its hatchback and for such a
small card is actually pretty fair
amount of cargo
room here there I was able to restore
the groceries if they're pretty easily
I know our test model second at fifteen
thousand dollars in for that you get a
car that takes you from here to there
but not much else for additional
information on this car or any other
gotta cars dot com on our blog kicking
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VW Polo Vivo vs. Chev Aveo | Auto Pedigree Review
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Welcome to the Auto Pedigree video
showroom.
Right now it's the VW Polo Vivo versus the Chev Aveo.
The VW Polo Vivo
is a South African favourite.
In fact its biggest competition is its newer cousin the Polo.
So can the Aveo take it on?
The Polo Vivo is based on VW's previous generation Polo
so the styling isn't exactly bang up to date.
But both the Vivo and the Aveo have
a fun, friendly design
that doesn't lookout of place in the city.
Inside both the cars have a layout that's fairly easy to use
but that's exactly where the polo starts to
pull ahead slightly lightly
because of the overall feeling here that's a bit more upmarket
add to that it also has a longer list of standard features.
It also has four airbags compared to the Chev's two airbags
but both cars have power steering, aircon,
front electric windows and electric
mirrors as well
And thanks to Auto Pedigree's 116-point
quality check,
you know both these cars are in great shape.
Both cars have really good space.
They may be classified as smaller sedans
but there's plenty of room here.
Rear passengers especially get good head and shoulder room
and it's the Polo that's the champ when it comes to brute space.
With 80 litres more than the Aveo.
For the driver though the most important aspect is what it's like on the road
and this is where the Aveo has a slight advantage.
One of the bigger differences between the two is that the
Chev has a 1600 petrol motor
as opposed to the Polo's 1400.
So obviously the Aveo has a bit of a power advantage -
77 kilowatts as opposed to 63.
But the automatic gearbox in either car
makes for a much easier drive in traffic.
The Polo Vivo gets a 6-speed auto while the Aveo makes do with a four-speed.
Fuel consumption for both cars is around 7 litres per hundred kays.
So the Polo Vivo has slightly more load
space and a more modern interior
but the Aveo has more power.
Both these cars have a lot to offer
and with Auto Pedigree's 30-day exchange program
you can buy with confidence knowing that
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Chevrolet Aveo RS Concept
Cars.com:
cars.com auto review
I'm Mike Hanley with cars dot com and
we're here at the Detroit Auto Show
checking out the Chevy Aveo
Rs it's a performance the version of the
hatchback and even those
technically a show car which means it's
not on sale right now
it strongly hints at what the next
generation avails gonna look like
Chevrolet dialed up the exterior dress
and that somehow have a large to show
what tuners my due to this new car
has 19-inch alloy wheels big massive
front grille
inquired headlights that feature halos
kinda like the ones you've seen on BMW
models
now the quad headlights will carry over
the production model
but don't look for the Halos another
compliment the Fars as aggressive
exterior looks it's powered by a 1.4
liter four cylinder that's turbocharged
makes
138 horsepower and that engine teams
with a six-speed manual transmission
now has a may confirm whether Tyler was
going to be off in this car but it is a
production order as it goes
and Chevy Cruze economy has a pretty
basic and careful with this new
Rs smile that answered what's coming for
the veil step we raise the bar in terms
of Interior
faulty as this unique digital analog
gauge pod
and also assign their control panel that
closely resembles one new Chevy Cruze
pricing information hasn't been
announced yet for the veil it's too
early for that
but from the looks of worship is trying
to do with this model looks like the
more premium interior and
more sorta exterior styling and a
position this car better to compete with
models like the Honda Fit
Nissan Versa for more car-related new
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2006 Chevy Aveo Repairs
Easy Auto Repairs:
This is my 2006 Chevy Aveo and it just
clicked over to 54,000 miles. Its still in
nice condition. We been doing a little
work on this car come on Bryant let's
show them the engine.
Our valve cover gasket went out and no
one (at the garage) told us about it. We took it to a shop
they didn't diagnose the problem correct
two times. And it was a winter time and it
was too cold for us to get out and work
on it. That's why we took it to the shop
and we drove it just a little too far
with a bad valve cover gasket and ended
up messing up the catalytic converter
and it blew out the EGR housing and it
blew the EGR tube out. We had to replace
all of that. And here lately we've been
working on the car and
we replaced these two hoses. The main
hose off the intake. This hose here they
were like $11 for both of them. And then
this hose here went bad on us. Its these
little connectors right here, they break.
And they get old and break all of these
connectors did that. And If your car you're
pressing gas on your car won't go
anywhere replace this one. You get a code
saying your intake manifolds bad. Check
this hose right here and the EGR hose (tube).
This makes the second one that we've had
to replace. And if this got cracks in it you
can smell exhaust really bad. If this
gets us crack in it over here. So your
nose can be your best friend. To tell you
if there's exhaust coming from around
this area suspect this EGR tube. But yeah
we got to run a really really good now.
hopefully will stay that way for quite a
while. And she's purring like a kitty cat.
but we all got her all back together and
we even got a new battery the other day
so hopefully were gonna be ok for
quite a while. Alright. Thanks everybody
good luck with your Aveo.
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How to mod your 2007 Chevrolet Aveo LT's lighting
W3Electronics:
So this is a how-to video
on changing the LEDs in your Chevy Aveo
were going over how to get into your gauge cluster
the digital clock
the radio
the AC cluster
the shifter and the dimmer
so lets start with the digital clock
let's take it off
all you really have to do is
pull back on it
let's see if I can do this one handed
voila! pops off just like that
you gotta take off the two screws from the side
theres single connector holding it
in the back
your gonna have to unplug that
voila, there's your digital clock
now what you want to do with it is take off the plastic tabs
pop them up be careful cause
plastic does
get brittle
now you have your cover, now i've put a blue film over it
since I couldn't change the
digital clock itself but it could change
the LED lights
unfortunately because of the cover being
yellow
when blue light hits yellow it turns green
you could choose to keep it off
I think it matches with the
digital clock on the
on the board
in the radio
so i suggest just leaving it
this is the back
this is the front
so just take lots of care while opening this
you could lift the plastic cover in the front
just to make sure you have a little more
view
there it is
there's the cover, it's white. There see?
plastic film
and there are the LEDs
what you want to do is you want to push out
the board
be careful
you could push the tabs
now that you've gotten it off
you could see the LEDs
alright so if you look
you can see which LEDs are for what
there's three LEDs for the passenger air bag
there's one for the indicators on and off
and there is one for your
anti-theft alarm
this is how you take apart your digital clock
now we can move on to the shifter
next part is the shifter, now you want to clean out everything from the
front
and the whole center
because your going to be taking off
this first
from the emergency brake
then you'll be pulling up this piece
this whole front piece
alright, your going to be taking off this front piece by lifting off the front of it
the reason is cause it holds down this piece
now you want to pull this piece up
but be careful
there are other parts
that come off
just bring it up
the whole unit
comes off
now that you've got this whole piece off
and set-aside
you can lift
this piece
from the front
than from the back
now that you have
all four of those out
we can deal with this
now there are two connectors under. One for the bulb for the middle, and then
connector for the hold button. So
your going to disconnect those
that's the connector for the hold
now that you got your connector off
you can choose to weather you want to take off your bulbs connector or not, there it is
I suggest you don't you don't need to.
the next parts a little more tricky
the next part
going to need to unscrew
the bottom part
from the top
don't know if you can get a good view of it from here
there's one screw
should be four of these all around
wish I could get a better view but that's it
unscrew those and you'll be able to take off the top
so once you got all those four screws
off
you could easily lift and
move this forward
and now you've got
a complete access to the bulb that goes here
now you could easily go online and just buy the
bulb that goes here or you can buy
the ones that are LED
replace it
and it'll be blue
now the hold button if you want to change that
it's completely different, you have to open it and solder it
now for
that you need to take out the hold button
the hold button you need to pinch the sides
and you need to push it upward
and voila!
comes out
alright you need to be careful cause you need to take that piece off and that piece off.
and I've almost broken it
you need to be very careful
so let's do that let's open it up
so make sure you lift those two sides up
very carefully that's what I did I used a
small flat head screw driver
now you can remove it
you see that?
got the LED in there already
I use these tabs cause they
went in the gauge cluster so I might as well keep the
LEDs the same all around
all you need to do is pullout that
circuit board from the back
so you need to lift up this tab and these tabs
so now that you have those tabs off you could easily open it. But I want you to be very
careful cause there are two springs on the inside
now as you can see I soldered a different LED where the original was.
the original was a green
and I put this blue. But I put a
surface mount style LED
I simply cut off the leads and then
sat this won't up where it was
and pointed it forward
and that's how you can basically turn
your hold button into the color you want
and your shifter
now we can move on to the gauge cluster.
now the gauge cluster is pretty simple. You lower your steering wheel
lock it in place
and remove the top
you pull out and you pull up
let's do that and pull out from the bottom
pull up
and the whole thing just comes right off
make sure you don't lose any pieces
now you gotta unscrew four, count them
four screws
now that you've got
the screws off
you have to take off
that and that piece
what you do is squeeze and pull it out
squeeze and pull out
the entire thing comes right out
now you gotta make sure when your taking this apart
and when you're taking off
these
that you don't end up breaking them. You could also take off the
plastic front
so you pushed down and forward
down and forward
down and . . .
forward
then I can pull that right off
set it aside
now you gotta be very careful
this whole thing has to come off for you
to get behind
to the LEDs
so you gotta take off
the needles
remember where the needles are at
they stay low
until you turn them on
and then they'll go up to
zero point
so they're about there
remember that mark
as far as the gas
and the temperature gauge there about a little higher than that there about there.
right above the letters
so remember that before you start taking this apart
so you pull off
make sure you pull off evenly so is not to break the needles
so pull the needles right off, I've already
pre-pulled these off but make sure you
pull with equal force all around, you don't
want to break these
it's hard to find replacements
so you set those aside and now that you've got those off
you gotta pull these tabs off
and when you pull these tabs up
makes you don't break them
so now that these tabs are up
pull this up
now you can take your cluster
simply pull it out
so you push that off and voila! This comes off
now you've got your cluster
you could pull this up it's got two tabs holding it down
about a tab each one
then you can pull up on it
just like you did the digital clock
and voila! look at that
there's your LEDs
I put a blue behind the gas gauge. Cause for some reason if you change the bulb on the
gas gauge i'm not sure why
but it wont work
with an LED
so i simply put blue on it
blue shade behind it
and i also made a turn signals LED
blue, you can
probably make your's, make sure you check your laws
now I put two LEDs there
their blue
here's the
front console
now when you take this off make sure you don't break any of the legs or you'll be missing numbers.
you don't want that to happen
so the final part to taking this apart
is having to bring up this
and this
and . . . this
make sure you don't break any of them, and push it up
so once you have those off you just gently
pull this off and look at that
you've got your whole circuit board
make sure this is intact make sure you didn't break any legs in the back
and there you go there
are your LEDs
make sure
that you pay attention to which way the polarity is
it's already there usually marked by they
lower
side on the left
the little dip that's the negative
make sure to watch out for they
air bag light
that one seems to have
that seems to be a different way of soldering
the LED on, it's got two legs on this side and
seems to be on two legs on that side so
just be careful if you change that one
and there you go that's how you take it apart, goodluck
i'll be doing the
center console and
the AC and the Radio
That'll be next. Ok so now im going to show you how to take off the top
part
so you can get to the center
and the radio
so you start from here
see this part?
push down
right where the air comes out
push down and this is the spot where you have to begin, use a flat head
uh...
small flathead should work
and now what you want to do is push up with the flat head
and try to get under
this panel, pull up
voila!
that's how you get it off
all you have to do is pull up
be careful
cause it might hurt if you do it wrong
now that you've got the top part off
you can get this
and pry it off
so, start from up here
pull off
should be careful
cause you don't want to break anything, and voila!
just set that aside
now that you've got this exposed
you have the option of taking out the
radio so let's do that
there are four screws. Now, once you have the screws off you can take out the whole
radio
so let's do that
now that you have the whole radio
you are able to access the screws on the
side here and here
some of the other side, so let's take those off. Now
once you have those four screws on the
sides off
I suggest you put the unit back in
and now you could take up the whole face
of the radio
you just need to pull out
just make sure this is, nice and
safe
and that way you can take off the face, see?
so with that done
you need to take off
about, one. . .
about nine black screws
to access the LEDs that light up this
unit
so let's do that
so once you have all those screws off
you need to flip it to the front
and pull off
the volume
so you just pull it out
comes off, it's two pieces so be careful
now that you have that off
you can just push forward
and off comes the face
now as you can see
my way of adapting
the blue LEDs
is uh...
in the
display is to put over a blue sheet
now
as you could see, you have access to the LEDs
you got LEDs here, here
I think all together, there are twenty-five of them i'm not sure
and you can look in the description to see what size they are and where you can get them on eBay
but my suggestion is when you're doing
them
to be careful
this is . . . this is
a board like any other and you can break it
there are LEDs in here, I don't know if you can see, and
it's hard to reach them, what I did was
I went back here and I de-soldered
this unit
I actually took this off to get to the LEDs in there and re-soldered it. So
that's how you get to your radio
now we can move on too
the A.C. unit
alright
Now we need to start on the A.C. Now i have to warn you, you need to take off this piece
as a whole
first
if you don't you're gonna
break or warp the plastic on the outside
let's start out by taking out
the ash tray
and let's take off this piece right here. All you need to do. Put your fingers under it
pull out
straight-out as far, as much as you can. See? So
now if you do
you'll reveal four screws. You got one here
one here
one here, and one here
you need to take off
those four screws, so let's do that
now that you have those four screws off. You can pull the unit itself out
straight out
now here's the issue with this one
there multiple plugs and cables holding
on to this unit
and you need to disconnect every single one if
you want to be able to take this out
and work on the LEDs on the inside. So
you start with
the emergency lights
take off that cable
move on to, this button
changes the direction of the air so what
you want to do is, you want to make sure this
and this
temperature
isn't all the way it's left you want
the temperature all the way to the right
so you can get some slack, see?
I'm turning it and it's pulling me in
so you want it to have slack
this one on the other hand
it can do whatever it wants
so
with that said I suggest you put it
uh, to the left. So now
what you want to do is, you wanna
pull out that cable
but let's start with the electronics first
so then I can bring the camera in closer so
you can see
so the next one will be in the middle
all you need to do is push down, and pull out
voila! comes out
so now you need to pull this out, and you need to be able to pull it out
and you'll be able to move it
from the unit itself
we have to do it to this one as well
this whole piece just comes up
you gotta be able to disconnect it first
let's try that
see? all you need to do is push up on it
what you can do is
turn the knob
to pull away
and now that
now that you've got that unhooked
it's easier for me to show you on this side
what happens. So
what you want to do is
same thing you did to the other one
push out on it
and then
turn the inside
to pull out
once you have that free
see these tabs? you need to pull these tabs out, while pulling this up
okay so
this is really hard one handed but what you need to do is
stick the flat head right here
push out
and pull up on wire
and then do so
for the other side
push out
pull up on the wire
keep pulling up or
it'll be in vain . . . voila!
pops out
so now you gotta
make sure this stays to the side
you gotta do the same for the other
but because you have everything unplugged
you can easily, flip it
look at that
you gotta make sure to disconnect this
look at that I used my
short flat head to help me with that, and now
you could flip the whole unit
let's see if I
can capture that on video
push down, pull up
push down, pull up
see how easy that is?
no breaks
no pulls
and look at that
you've got your whole unit
alright now that you have the A.C. unit out
you wanna flip it over
and you wanna find
this screw
and this screw
those were the screws I was talking about
when I said do not pry this face off
ok, now that you have those out
you may flip it to the other side. Just to take off the face
you must take off
the middle two
on this side, one. . . two
flip it around
and three
please be careful when doing this
you could easily break them especially
when the plastic gets brittle and old. Voila!
there's the face
set that aside
now your starting to get an idea of what uh... the A.C. cluster really looks like
now, what you want to do is
you want to
do the same for these
but let's start off by taking off the front
all you need to do
is grab hold really tight
pull forward
look at that
comes right off
so do that for the other two
right off
do it gently enough not to break anything
and now you can start seeing on the inside the electronics that I'm trying to get to
so
now we can take off the tabs
so you have the tabs off
look at that, comes right off
but you need to unplug this, just pull it up
and now you can take it off. There's one more piece of electronics you need to unplug
and look at that
you have where the light bulbs sit
which are now LEDs that i've
changed to
and you have access to the electronics
so now that we've gotten to the electronics you can unscrew it by
unscrew it by
taking off these two screws
so let's do that
so once you have those screws off, you simply take off the board
just take care not to damage it
and
as you can see
I took off the
the LEDs from before and I changed them to
blue
and I sort of ran sand paper in front of them, so the light wouldn't be as strong
and I also added an extra resistor
if you could see there
and I added the LED in the middle instead of a little light bulb, incandescent
So this replaced the A.C.
this replaced the
middle
which is for
keeping the air out
and this is for the
defrost
so there you go, that's how you get into your A.C. cluster
before you finish
putting this together
I want to talk about the emergency light switch
Now, if you put an LED in here colored it'll still come out red. That's what happened to me
but uh... that's going to be your choice, if you want to change it to LED. I did, at least now I know
the LED is consistent with the rest of the electronics that I've put in
and it won't burn out as quick so
let me show you how to take that off, there are two tabs, one on this side and on this side.
you push
and you push the unit out
and voila!
comes off
now if you look at the switch
it's got a tab up here, a tab up there that you need to flip up to open up
and here's the bulb, all you need to do is turn and pull out
Now I would take it apart it's just
I've done it so many times and it's not that hard
you just pull this tab up
and pull this tab up, and that's it. So
that's how you take that out
and when your putting it back in, if you put it wrong uh... I mean it's pretty obvious
there's only two ways. You're either going to be able to put it this way
or that way, and guess which way is the right way
when you do all you need to do is
Voila!
now we can move on to, the dimmer
so for the dimmer
you need to go under
now let's see if I can
get some light in here
I don't know if you can see that connector
that's where it is
all you need to do is, push out on it
once you push out on it, it'll pop out by itself
so now that you've got the dimmer out
all you have to do is
get the clip off, all you need to do is push it and pull
let me see if I can do it one handed
there, if I can do it one handed you can do it with two
same thing goes for this one
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and you can get inside, so let's do that
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make sure to pull off the face
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pull up this so the wheel comes out
and the whole unit comes out
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you can see how I changed it
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2012 Chevy Sonic LTZ Turbo Review / Test Drive = MPGomatic
MPGomatic:
<strong><em>MPG-o-Matic 2012 Chevrolet Sonic
Turbo Review Summary:</em></strong> <em>What
a difference a year makes. While the outgoing
Chevy Aveo ranked at the bottom of all the
cars we’ve tested over the years, the 2012
Sonic LTZ Turbo has muscled its way into the
top of the sub-compact class. The sleeping
giant has awakened. While the Sonic Turbo
might not be the golden egg - nor a beautiful
swan - it’s surely a blast to drive and
American-built, to boot. </em>
Hi, I’m Dan Gray for MPGomatic.com and this
is a Chevy Sonic LTZ Turbo.
Available as a four-door sedan and five-door
hatchback, the 2012 Chevy Sonic can be equipped
with either a naturally-aspirated 1.8-liter
or a turbocharged 1.4-liter four cylinder
engine.
The turbo 1.4-liter produces 138 HP and 148
foot pounds of torque and is paired with a
six-speed manual transmission
The official fuel economy estimates for the
turbocharged 1.4-liter 2012 Chevy Sonic are
29 city / 40 highway MPG. The standard 1.8-liter
Sonic is rated at 25 city / 35 highway with
the six-speed automatic transmission and 26
city / 35 highway with the five-speed manual.
We covered well over 500 miles in our six-speed
manual Inferno Orange five-door Sonic LTZ
Turbo review unit and had no problem meeting
the official mileage estimates, achieving
a average of 41.5 MPG on the Interstate highway
and 34.3 MPG combined in temperatures that
ranged from the high-forties through the seventies.
Leave the line a bit too hot, and the turbo
four will provoke plenty of wheelspin.
The monochrome LCD Driver Information Center
provides trip computer functions, an Average
Fuel Economy display, and an upshift light.
We’d like to see a real-time fuel economy
display, added to next year’s model.
The improvement over the outgoing Aveo is
like night and day. It isn’t just that the
Sonic rides and handles well ... it’s genuinely
fun to toss about, whether darting through
city traffic or out in twisties.
Chevy describes the Sonic’s design as being
motorcycle-inspired and that’s clearly evident
in the unique dashboard arrangement. The Sonic
LZ’s interior features a leather-wrapped
steering wheel with audio controls, leatherette
seating surfaces and one-level front seat
heating. The driver’s bucket seat offers
four-way manual adjustment.
A dual glovebox arrangement includes USB input
and audio line-in ports in the upper glovebox,
with provisions to either route the cable
out, or store the phone or media player within.
Bluetooth is standard, with phonebook downloads
to the head unit. The six-speaker sound system
includes XM Satellite Radio and Bluetooth
audio streaming. iPod support is well done,
with full access to playlists, albums, and
artists. Three months of XM Radio and GM’s
OnStar service are standard.
The single 12-volt outlet is located between
the front bucket seats.
The Sonic hatchback’s second row seats allow
38.1 inches of headroom and 34.6 inches of
leg room. The four-door sedan provides slightly
less headroom (37.8 inches).
The five-door Sonic provide 19 cubic feet
of storage with the rear seat up, and 30.7
cubic feet of storage with the 60/40 seat
folded down.
Wish List: The Sonic lacks adjustable lumbar
support.
All-in-all, the 2012 Chevy Sonic doesn’t
just win the most-improved award, it’s muscled
its way into the top of the sub-compact class
alongside the Fiesta and Fit. While there’s
room for improvement when it comes to fuel
economy, there’s never been a tiny Chevy
as fun to toss about, nor as well outfitted.
The Aveo is dead. Long live the Sonic.
For more reports and reviews, come to MPGomatic.com,
where mileage matters.
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