a guy i work with just bought a cobalt ss with only 7k miles. to me the thing seems like a piece of ----. its not a horrible looking car and it looks fairly easy to work on, but he started it up and it didnt idle near as smooth as my 93 civic running with uberdata(that i tuned myself) and when he reved it up it was stumbling almost everytime. has anyone else messed with these cars. i would be pissed if my new car ran like that, but i dont think he even realizes it

 

eh, i'm not a big fan. motors are solid but that ----- *** m62 limits you to around 275whp with what seems like thousands of dollars worth of supporting mods/bolt-ons. kid in town is making 304whp or something with EVERYTHING you can do to those cars including a tune, ported blower, and meth injection. i'll take an srt4 anyday if i had to pick. needless to say, not a big fan on this end. although i have never heard of any idling problems.

 

they already stopped production for 2008. i think there ugly and the electric steering and throttle make the car feel very odd to drive. i suppose if i wanted a somewhat quick car straight off the showroom floor i could understand, but with that kind of money, there are a lot of other really nice cars out there.
not to mention, on tight cornered race tracks, the suspension just doesnt seem to hold its own in a stock or lightly modded form. that platform was not designed for hardcore driving enthusiasts

 

If it has any resemblance to the 88 sunbird I had back in the day....god help him...Every concievable functioning part on that car failed when it was only about 12 years old.....J bodies suck......Not sure how the build quality is on those. Maybee someone owns one here on hmt

 

what does he have done to it ? are you tring to fix his problem or does he think it runs fine ?

 

he thinks its fine. i was more just asking if anyone else has noticed how shitty they are. i dont think the problem can be fixed without tuning. i think the people at gm are just retards now that i have seen this

and it is bone stock

 

gm is full of idiots look at the desighn it looks like some thing that would have been ricer cool in 1995

 

i think they are junk and were made to compete with imports but just failed because they suck too much

 

Johnny is going to come in here and throw his Chevy love around this thread. :P
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here i come

there is a difference between the cobalt ss and colbalt ss supercharged.

i actually really like the ss supercharged car.

if it runs shitty something is obviously wrong with it. they don't come running crappy from the factory


its truly idiotic to think that any manufacturer "can't tune a car".