2009 How Many Auto Mechanics To Change a Back Bumper?





Well we took the Aveo in in 2008 and 16 days later, in 2009, McPhee Pontiac called to say it was ready.



The cost (apart from Vivian's pride)? $500 Insurance Deductable + $1772.16 Repairs + $444.37 (car rental) = $2716.53.

A lot for a back bumper that essentially only fell off.



The moral of the story? Don't get your car damaged. Take an extra few minutes wherever you're going.



Anyway, we now have a better idea of why General Motors is in such a bad way. It's because they build cars like the Cobalt (see picture below). Really a Mustang wannabe - the American mentality of wanting big looking, powerful looking, macho cars.



So you sit with your ass all but on the road, making getting in and getting out so very awkward. A gutless engine coupled to an inadequate automatic transmission that seems forever to be struggling to change up, doubtless gobbling gas. Two (the little Aveo has four) huge, heavy, long doors that are a nightmare in a parking lot and, with the seat belts make getting into the back seats just miserable. Little headroom, my wispy hairs were forever rubbing on the roof. That huge, near-horizontal back window that collects snow by the ton. A car so wide that snow clearing and frost scraping are a pain (near impossible for wee folk). Oddly, cobalt is a blue colour - why was ours silver? Cobalt, an odd name when, in nuclear terms, a cobalt bomb is the so-called "dirty bomb".



Anyway - we were very glad to get our little Aveo back. Yes, I know there's a GM badge on it but it's Orientally designed and built; GM just stick their badge on it because bright people won't buy Cobalts!