1. Mysterious loss of clutch pressure causing grinding (mostly in 2nd gear even pushed down to the floor)
2. Occasional inability of shift into 1st or reverse while at a dead stop.
3. brakes are shitty as all hell...rotors suck
4. suspension sucks for the LS
5. crappy interior workmanship (they didn't design it well enough..still has plastic molding stubs n' such)
6. high pitch noise coming from driver side cv axle/diff (sounds like a weak supercharger)
5. vibration at 55-65mph (don't flame, wheels and such are balanced, just got two brand new tires)
6. rear deck rattle
7. WEAK ENGINE INTERNALS.

shall i go on....

don't get me wrong...i love the balt...but for awhile i wanted my cavy back

 

Wow I really didn't want to even know that.... lol

 

Almost 8k miles 2007 SS/SC

Interior bezel paint chiped

Leather is cheap

Passenger door squeaked so they greased it for me

Vibrates but thats cuz of my mounts. I don hav a sunroof so my dome light vibrates and thats the most annoyin

A lil paint missin on the corner of my spoiler

Boost gauge actin a lil funny but it might be cuz of my mods

Clutch slips if i shift below 3k

 

Didn't find anyone with this issue on a search so here ya go.

Get in, start car, start to drive, theft deterant light on dash comes on. This happen a couple of times. Now the light comes and and all gauges randomly die for several seconds and then come back repeatiedly. Doesn't seem to hender preformance though.

Called dealer. Started using second key. Seemed fine for 2 weeks and now doing same thing with second key.

FYI - for those with front end clunking noise, check your cradles. Mine were loose. Not all dealers do a thorough pre-delivery check, like their supposed to, which including torque checking of most under carriage nuts and bolts. Gotta love the dealer though. I get the 'you must really beat on this car' crap. Just cause the front tires were mostly used up at 8k miles. lol. I don't drag it but you spend time turning laps on a raod coarse and the fronts go quick.

 

Someone mention the Reverse Lights going out?

 

2007 SS SC- Purchased Aug. 30, 2006.
18200 kms to date
Current unresolved problems:
-Keeping other people from racing me (don't even bother with "remove the tail", i'm keeping it)
-front wheel traction
-slightly sloppy gearshift

Resolved problems:
-'06 Cobalt headlight delivered on car (07 SS SC came without amber cornering lenses) Warranty covered

 

the whole car

 

1. bad paint on interior
2. water dripping on me while driving coming out of onstar mic.
3. wheels chipping
4. plastic piece on top of shifter lever fell of
5. wierd clunking noise coming from front end of car.

 

Shifter knob, axles not being porperly lubed from factory, roll pins in sunroof, Clutch pedal spring, Fan blower,

 

had the same exact problem... fixed under warranty

 

engine pwr reduced on DIC due to needing PCM reflash...i've just seen that happen to quite a few on here....

brake rotor premature wear due to ceramic brake pads and overheating rotors...

supercharger knock due to rotors hitting each other and hitting the housing (new Aftermarket coupler doesn't help much)....

engine rpm's being up to 500rpm off due to gm stage 2 (SI bullitens said that theres no corrections and that it should correct itself by 3rd gear)....

window switch trim piece paint cracking, gunmetal wheel finish chipping/ cracking....no real mechanical issues, thank god, other than what i brought onto myself with modding

 

oh yeah, and cheap plastic panels.... i hate the clips as well

 

'05 Cobalt

- Chipping interior paint - the piece that runs along the passenger side doesn't chip but the clip design is so crappy that it won't fully seat anymore
- Interior driver door handle plastic chrome coming off
- Fabric coming up around power window button - installed plastic piece to extend the window switch bezel
- Check oil light kept coming on - bad sensor/filter seal
- E-brake light kept coming on - flashed computer
- Shifter top fell off - glued back on
- Sunroof bezel falls off, about once a year
- Constant rattle - heat shield keeps coming loose - 3rd time its been fixed
- Loud noise from bottom - replaced cat converter
- ABS light comes on periodically - haven't taken it in for this yet

Overall I like the performance of this car but I'm so anoyed with all the little rattles and appearance issues that I can't recommend a Cobalt. GM really needs to re-do this one if they expect repeat buyers.

 

shitty clutch...had that replaced once
paint on interior chipping
clunking in the front end some where...in the suspension? any ideas?
traction....lol
battery is junk
leather....actually thanks to my ex gf that bitch

bout it love my car wouldnt trade it for anything

 

shift knob came off in my hand today..
various squeaks/rattles when going over large bumps
driver side door handle is loose and rattles
seat belts slow to retract
front end/steering excess play and clunk noise
but I still love it

 

seat belts dont really retract at all
transmission is for the *****
ebrake is possibly the worst design i have ever seen

 

interior paint peeling
sunroof bezel falling off
sunroof itself broke twice
brakes are crap
ebrak is now broke can pull up with one finger
front axle shaft broke
just found out theres a tsb for all four injectors to be replaced by gm my check engine light was on and rough idle so i checked codes and said air/fuel mix and number 1 misfire
inside passanger door handle broke
passanger door window slow as hell
windshield cracked out of the blue one morning
ac blower motor failed
brakets to hold rear bumber were not installed on the car to begin with bumber flapper in the wind
maybe more but this is enough... GM give me 2 extra yr warranty ya gm thank you

I still love the car but dont know why. lol

 

#1 - Shitty Trans... syncro's in 1->2 gone.....
#2 - Ebrake! - Whats a guy to do w/o one of theses?
#3 - Rotors - Quick Warp... Turned down... warped again... replaced (we'll find out when spring comes if they can hold up)

but all in all i still love my car

 

Door latch getting stuck and door either not opening or not able to be closed

 

starter died @ 33k miles, alternator died @ 60k miles.

 

crapy rotors and a crapy clutch...still stock and it slips crazy

 

Door Cup Paint/ Radio Paint Wore off ... Under Warranty.

ICM and Coilpack went bad. 220 Bucks w/ GM Employee Discount

 

Interior rattle between 2-5k rpm
Outside door handles rattle with speakers
Random clicking noise coming from front of engine(around belts) speeds and changes pitch with RPM
Trunk lining falling inward
When in Neutral while braking engine rpm stays close to 3k until gas pedal is tapped
Rough idol on cold starts sometimes killing engine
Brakes fade quickly unless cold day... then it takes a few more minutes
Everyone wants to race me and asks me what stage I am...

 

sunroof bezel, interior paint, rim paint- crank shaft position sensor went bad and car shut off on the freeway...

06 SS/SC

 

i'm sorry but all your guys problems are a drop in the bucket compared to the ones I've had with my 05.