After 6 years of ownership, and 197,000km and change (123k miles) of driving, I drove my 2009 Pontiac G5 to the recycler this morning. Got $420 for it, which is more than I expected. Everything still worked on the car, AC even blew ice cold, but rust was getting too bad as often happens with these cars. Never, ever expected to get THAT much use out of it; thought maybe 2 years and it would fall apart by then. It did need a fair amount of repairs to keep going, but with no car payment it made sense to keep going. I will keep doing my commute now with what was my wife’s 2016 Jeep Patriot 2.4 with 136,000k on it now. Yes, it too will need lots of work to keep going, but again, paid for vehicle.
Scrapped my 2009 Pontiac G5
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Well, you got your use out of it. It's frustrating when rust claims them when the car is running great.
Too bad. No way to arrest the rust and do some fill work?
Was this of the vintage of the "Big Oprah Giveaway"? [everybody in the studio for the taping of that particular show got one]
Was this of the vintage of the "Big Oprah Giveaway"? [everybody in the studio for the taping of that particular show got one]
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That was the G6. Malibu platform-mate. The G5 was a (shameless) Cobalt rebadge.
I had a Cobalt for a few years. Fun as hell to zoom around town in, but long highway drives were brutal. Mine had some rust forming all those years ago, the few I see puttering around now look like they have no bottom left.
RIP to your G5
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Was it a two or four door? My Cobalt was a four door. Power was certainly more than fine, seats weren't bad, but the road noise was awful and it seemed to require more steering input on the freeway than I'd like (perhaps because it was an accident repair, but I've encountered it with other vehicles too).
I did date a girl with a supercharged SS for a bit. Now that Cobalt had power. I don't recall that one having the same road noise issue.
My buddy had one of the last-year 260hp turbo Cobalt SS…now THAT thing would fly!!
The platform was not designed to go as fast as it could, so it got scary at the upper end on it, twitchy to say the least.
My buddy traded it in on a used Corvette; the kid who bought his SS from the dealership wrote it off the first night he had it.
The platform was not designed to go as fast as it could, so it got scary at the upper end on it, twitchy to say the least.
My buddy traded it in on a used Corvette; the kid who bought his SS from the dealership wrote it off the first night he had it.
