Other engine problem on the 2007 Chevrolet Aveo
1 fire 1 of the 15 reports for this failure mention a crash, a fire, an injury or a death. Those are the owner's words on the complaint form, not a verified finding, and one report can mention more than one.
When other engine problem gets reported
Owners of the 2007 Chevrolet Aveo report other engine problem at a median of 65,000 miles. A quarter of the reports come in before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 85,000 miles, from 12 reports that carried an odometer reading.
A part like this is normally expected to survive 95,000 miles. It is the 3rd most-reported problem on this model year.
The mileage distribution
The reported range runs from 20,000 miles at the tenth percentile to 125,000 miles at the ninetieth, a spread of 105,574 miles across the middle 80% of reports.
When the reports scatter this far, the mileage is telling you about how these cars were driven more than about the part itself.
17% of the dated reports were filed under 36,000 miles.
The whole distribution
| 10th | 25th | Median | 75th | 90th |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21,026 miles | 47,500 miles | 65,627 miles | 87,000 miles | 126,600 miles |
Read the 10th percentile as “one report in ten arrived this early”. Exact figures are shown in this table because it is the table of record; everywhere else on the site they are rounded to the precision the sample can carry.
What a percentile can and cannot tell you here
These five numbers describe the readings owners gave, in order. The median is the middle one: half the reports arrived below it. The 10th and 90th are the edges of the bulk of the distribution, and the distance between them is the part worth reading. A tight spread — say 70,000 to 95,000 miles — points at something that wears out on a schedule, and the schedule is knowable. A wide one, 20,000 to 190,000, points at a fault that hits some cars and never troubles others, which means the mileage on the listing in front of you tells you very little about your odds.
What these figures are not is a survival curve. Every reading here comes from a car whose owner filed a complaint, so the sample contains only failures: it cannot say what share of the fleet made it past 150,000 miles untouched, because those owners had nothing to report. Nor is the mileage the moment of failure — it is the odometer reading as recalled at the time of filing, which may be weeks later and is sometimes rounded to the nearest ten thousand by the person typing it.
Percentiles are shown at all only once 8 readings exist for the vehicle and mode. Below that the middle of a handful of numbers is noise wearing a decimal point, so the figures are withheld rather than dressed up.
What happens, and what it costs
Of these reports, 1 a fire is mentioned. Owners write their own complaints and the agency does not verify them, so read this as what the reports say happened rather than as a confirmed count.
Putting it right typically runs $300–$4,000 at an independent US shop. That range is an editorial estimate held in this site's failure-mode catalogue, not a figure from NHTSA, and it is a repair cost rather than a diagnosis cost.
The same failure on other years
The same failure is reported on 8 model years of this car. It shows up earliest on the 2010, at a median of 35,000 miles, and latest on the 2008 at 75,000 miles.
By volume the 2009 carries the most reports, with 33; the 2007 has 15. A mode that appears across most years of a model is usually a design choice rather than a bad batch.
If one year stands out to the left, that is the year to avoid; if the whole line sits at a similar mileage, this is wear rather than a defect in one production run.
Tick median reported mileage Solid middle half of reports Faint 10th to 90th percentile Colour how bad the failure is when it happens
What owners wrote
Verbatim from NHTSA complaint narratives, trimmed for length. The mileage is the one the owner gave.
Tl*the contact owns a 2007 chevrolet aveo. While making a turn between 5-10 MPH, the contact heard a grinding noise coming from the front end of the vehicle. The dealer replaced the front wheel bearings and checked the air pressure, but the failure continued. The vehicle was taken to another dealer and they performed an unknown repair. The dealer stated that the grinding noise would return in a few months because the failure was normal. The contact noticed oil leaking onto the ground. The dealer confirmed that the oil pump gasket was leaking and the dealer replaced the gasket. The failure mileage was 6,751 and current mileage was 18,000.
While driving the throttle is sometimes stuck in a lower gear causing me to move at a limited speed while on the road. There has always been a problem with the throttle such as erratic acceleration, but only recently it has become stuck. *tr
2007 aveo 5 , new purchase in april 2008. 1. Highway driving is extremely scary, cannot drive at "posted speed limits in north america.roof howls & vibrates, we fear that roof will detach & blow off.tech: unable to reproduce. 2. Freezing outdoor temperatures, defroster fails, needs hand toweling, excessive moisture & frozen ice on all inside windows set on "defrost/ fresh air/ high fan/ medium high heat, even after 1 hour still very humid & wet. Difficult to see clearly while driving. Tech:no fault found 3.air bag warning light goes off & on when it wants, with people in both front seats. Tech: unable to duplicate 4. Front end groans harshly when driving over dips in road our speed bumps. Tech lubricated. 11 failed attempts on our part/in letters to gm ceo's about our safety concerns-no response, interest or reply back. Service refused viewing our video of our highway driving, tired of gm service "loop hole excuses" gammot runaround system & getting know results. Please help us, we bought this car for road trips around north america, we clearly would be risking our lives doing hwy posted speeds that are as high as 80 miles per…
Also reported on the 2007 Chevrolet Aveo
Airbag warning light or occupant sensor fault
Other electrical problem
Control module (ECM/PCM/BCM) failure
Other lighting problem
Headlight failure or clouding
Shifter, linkage or stuck-in-park failure
How far this goes
Complaints are voluntary, so 15 is a floor and not a count of affected cars. Mileages are typed in by owners and cluster on round numbers. And the mode itself is assigned by software reading the complaint text, which is reliable in bulk and fallible one report at a time.
Questions this page answers
At what mileage does other engine problem happen on the 2007 Chevrolet Aveo?
Across 12 owner reports that included an odometer reading, half were filed by 65,000 miles. A quarter were filed before 50,000 miles and a quarter after 85,000 miles. These are the mileages owners reported when they complained, not a prediction for any individual car.
How common is other engine problem on the 2007 Chevrolet Aveo?
15 reports have been filed with NHTSA, about 0.7 per 1,000 vehicles. Complaints are voluntary, so this is a floor rather than a count of affected cars.
What this is and is not. These are the mileages at which owners chose to complain to a federal agency, which is not the same as the mileage at which the part fails on every car. It skews toward failures that happened outside warranty, cost real money, or frightened someone. It is still the only public dataset that carries failure mileage at all, and the shape of a few hundred readings is informative even when a single one is not. Methodology · JSON · this failure on other cars
Source Owner complaints and recall records published by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, model years 1996–2027 Figures rebuilt Published by AtWhatMileage How every figure is computed